title: PLAN B A comparative study of how the Norwegian and Swedish states relate to the international organization they cannot be members of
abstract: The purpose of the thesis is to reconsider the Norwegian non-membership of the EU and the\nSwedish non-membership of NATO. The premise of this extensive in-depth study is to\ncontribute to our understanding of how state sovereignty can be pursued either individually\nor collectively. Empirically, I compare the strategies to approach these organizations as nonmembers, and moreover what the implications are for these strategy choices. The theoretical definition of plan A is that a country applies 
journal: Gothenburg University Publications Electronic Archive (Gothenburg University)