Sweden, NATO and European Integration
Journal: T.M.C. Asser Press eBooks
Year: 2026

On March 7 2024, Sweden acceded to the Washington Treaty to become a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In so doing, Sweden abandoned its position as a militarily non-aligned state with the ambition to stay neutral in relation to the belligerents in armed conflicts, a position that had been maintained with relative consistency since 1814. Thus, the normative role of the law of neutrality for the formulation of Swedish foreign and security policy was brought to an end. In this chap