Heljä Ossa – författare

This book states that burden-sharing is one of the most persisting sources for tension and disagreement within NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation). It also belongs to one of the most studied issues within NATO with distinguishable traditions and schools of thought. However, this pertinent question has been rarely discussed extensively by academics. The key idea of the book is to make burden-sharing more understandable as a historical, contemporary and future phenomenon. The authors take a comprehensive look at what is actually meant with burden-sharing and how it has evolved as a concept and a real-life phenomenon through the 70 years of NATO’s existence.

This book states that burden-sharing is one of the most persisting sources for tension and disagreement within NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation). It also belongs to one of the most studied issues within NATO with distinguishable traditions and schools of thought. However, this pertinent question has been rarely discussed extensively by academics. The key idea of the book is to make burden-sharing more understandable as a historical, contemporary and future phenomenon. The authors take a comprehensive look at what is actually meant with burden-sharing and how it has evolved as a concept and a real-life phenomenon through the 70 years of NATO’s existence.

Kysymys kansainvälisestä asemastamme on aina kiinnostanut suomalaisia. Haluamme tietää, mitä meistä ajatellaan. Millaisia uhkia ja riskejä länsikumppanimme näkevät Suomeen kohdistuvan? Millaisena turvallisuuden osaajana Suomi nähdään? Onko Suomi tärkeä vai toisarvoinen? Kirjassaan Suomi mainittu Tommi Koivula ja Heljä Ossa käsittelevät yleistajuisesti näitä teemoja nykyisessä historiallisessa tilanteessa. Kirja auttaa ymmärtämään paremmin turvallisuuspolitiikkamme dramaattista muutosta viime vuosien aikana ja Suomen Nato-jäsenyyden vaikutuksia.