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SWEDISH SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AND THE VIETNAM WAR IBD

SöDERTöRN UNIVERSITY
03 / 2017
9789187843358
Inglês

Sinopse

West European leaders had good reasons to oppose US Vietnam war policy. It threatened to alter the global balance of power while igniting unrest at home. Such turbulence led to a radicalized political atmosphere domestically. In this new environment, the &ldquo,New Left&rdquo, established a powerful foothold among the &ldquo,68-generation&rdquo,. In many West European countries the new radical left rejected the older Socialist and Communist parties in favor of more radical political alternatives.In Sweden the Social Democratic government struggled to maintain a workable relationship with Washington while at the same time placating domestic anti-war opinion &ndash, thus preventing this issue from being hijacked by the far left. How did the Swedish Social Democrats resolve this dilemma?