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When NATO was founded in 1949, Sweden chose not to join. Instead, the country declared a security policy aiming for non-alignment in peace and neutrality in war. [5] Sweden maintained its policy of neutrality during the Cold War. [2]
In 1949, Sweden chose not to join NATO and declared a security policy aiming for non-alignment in peace and neutrality in war. [88] This position was maintained without much discussion during the Cold War.
Sweden on Thursday formally joined NATO as the 32nd member of the transatlantic military alliance, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality and centuries of broader non-alignment with major ...
NATO in 2025 . The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an international military alliance consisting of 32 member states from Europe and North America. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. Of the 32 member countries, 30 are in Europe and two are in North America.
Sweden, along with Finland, which joined NATO last year, both abandoned long-standing military neutrality that was a hallmark of the Nordic states’ Cold War foreign policy after Russia invaded ...
Finland - which has a 1,340km (832 mile) land border with Russia - joined in April 2023. Sweden became a member in March 2024. Having been neutral for decades, they both applied to Nato in May ...
This remarkably long era of nonalignment is coming to a close as Sweden joins NATO. For the next two centuries, Sweden embraced a policy of neutrality, refusing to take sides in wars or join any ...
Finland and Sweden are the newest members, joining on 4 April 2023 and 7 March 2024 respectively, ... In June 2018, Qatar expressed a wish to join NATO, ...