Sweden's Grand Strategy
Year: 2025

Abstract This book traces the evolution of Sweden’s grand strategy from 1945 to 2024, understood as a coherent policy encapsulating an overarching idea of how a state achieves its national objectives. In the book, small state grand strategy is identified through national foreign policy roles which at certain times coalesce into master roles forming the basis of grand strategy. During this period, Sweden’s foreign policy roles were shaped according to the degree of autonomy and integration deemed