title: How Neutrality Lost its Appeal as a Political Strategy: Sweden and Finland’s Accesion to NATO
abstract: NATO is about to embrace two Scandinavian countries as new members, even though Sweden and Finland opted for neutrality during the Cold War. In the political turmoil of the second half of 20th century, those two countries preferred to stay on the sidelines. The struggle between two poles of global politics raged on, yet even after more than three decades since the collapse of Soviet Union, they choose not to commit to the Western alliance. After a period during which existence of NATO was questi
journal: Journal of Applied and Theoretical Social Sciences