:I don't object to a rewrite of that sentence, I just have a couple of comments to your summary. Basically neutral is not quite the opposite of activistic. Although the participation in the first Gulf War and later events mark the return to an activistic policy, we stopped being neutral long before that by joining NATO, so the period of neutrality lasted less than a century. And don't forget that Denmark was officially neutral until a point in time during the Napoleonic Wars, although that period of neutrality also goes less than a century further back.