What constitutes an act of war? Finnish research fellow Minna Ålander considers the edge cases—damaged data cables, suspicious AirBnBs, and prank phone calls—under a new label: 'hybrid warfare.' In this episode we discuss Finland's responses to an ever-evolving security environment and the motivations behind Finland and Sweden's recent decisions to join NATO.
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This episode was written, edited, and produced by Colin Gioia Connors.
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Transcript available at scandinavian.washington.edu/crossing-north-29-gray-zone/
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Theme music used with permission by Kristján Hrannar Pálsson:
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What constitutes an act of war? Finnish research fellow Minna Ålander considers the edge cases—damaged data cables, suspicious AirBnBs, and prank phone calls—under a new label: 'hybrid warfare.' In this episode we discuss Finland's responses to an ever-evolving security environment and the motivations behind Finland and Sweden's recent decisions to join NATO.
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This episode was written, edited, and produced by Colin Gioia Connors.
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Transcript available at scandinavian.washington.edu/crossing-north-29-gray-zone/
***
Theme music used with permission by Kristján Hrannar Pálsson:
open.spotify.com/album/1dDmFxNvfYVnQwq7up7rxS
***
Crossing North is a production of the Department of Scandinavian Studies and the Baltic Studies Program at the University of Washington in Seattle.
scandinavian.washington.edu/crossing-north-podcast
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Support Crossing North:
Donate to the "Friends of Scandinavian Languages and Literature Fund"
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On August 23, 2019, over 210,000 Hongkongers joined hands in a 60 kilometer human chain to protest police violence and to demand democratic reforms. This human chain, called the Hong Kong Way, took place on the 30th anniversary of another human chain protest—the Baltic Way of 1989—in which approximately two million Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians formed a 690 kilometer human chain across the three countries to protest the Soviet occupation. Iverson Ng, an Estonian-based Hongkonger, tells the story.
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This episode was written, edited, and produced by Colin Gioia Connors.
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Transcript available at https://scandinavian.washington.edu/crossing-north-22-baltic-hong-kong-way
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Theme music used with permission by Kristján Hrannar Pálsson: open.spotify.com/album/1dDmFxNvfYVnQwq7up7rxS
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Crossing North is a production of the Department of Scandinavian Studies and the Baltic Studies Program at the University of Washington in Seattle.
scandinavian.washington.edu/crossing-north-podcast
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Support Crossing North:
Donate to the "Friends of Scandinavian Languages and Literature Fund"
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Crossing North
What constitutes an act of war? Finnish research fellow Minna Ålander considers the edge cases—damaged data cables, suspicious AirBnBs, and prank phone calls—under a new label: 'hybrid warfare.' In this episode we discuss Finland's responses to an ever-evolving security environment and the motivations behind Finland and Sweden's recent decisions to join NATO.
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This episode was written, edited, and produced by Colin Gioia Connors.
***
Transcript available at scandinavian.washington.edu/crossing-north-29-gray-zone/
***
Theme music used with permission by Kristján Hrannar Pálsson:
open.spotify.com/album/1dDmFxNvfYVnQwq7up7rxS
***
Crossing North is a production of the Department of Scandinavian Studies and the Baltic Studies Program at the University of Washington in Seattle.
scandinavian.washington.edu/crossing-north-podcast
***
Support Crossing North:
Donate to the "Friends of Scandinavian Languages and Literature Fund"
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