Towards NATO Membership: Looking into the End of Sweden's Neutrality Amidst Strategic Shift in Europe
Journal: Hasanuddin Journal of Strategic and International Studies (HJSIS)
Year: 2024

The year 2022 marked the re-outbreak of a chaotic war, between Russia and Ukraine, in Eastern Europe. While military attacks between the two warring countries were not directed to countries around the region, and Sweden does not have a shared border with both countries, Sweden decided to apply for NATO membership a few months after the war began. This decision contradicted with Sweden’s long-standing tradition of neutrality in foreign affairs for almost two centuries. Using the framework of neoc