ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the socio-historical transformations of the “total defence” model in Sweden during the 1990s and 2000s. More specifically, it analyses how a group of reformists in the civil defence area began imposing new ways of doing security after the Cold War, including new threat constructions related not to military invasion, but to asymmetrical and transgressive threats and risks such as terrorism. The chapter argues that the co-emergence of a new generation of security practitioners and certain new academic research environments for crisis management and counterterrorism studies had a significant effect on Swedish defence reforms, and also created the space in which the Swedish conception of societal security could emerge.
