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Sweden — NATO’s Neutral ‘Ally’? A Post-Revisionist Account

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A History of NATO — The First Fifty Years

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Recent revelations of a strong undercurrent of functional co-operation between Sweden and members of NATO seem to indicate that Sweden was not neutral at all in the cold war. Since Swedish military authorities went quite some way — how far is a contested matter — in preparing for the reception of western military assistance Sweden should perhaps be seen as NATO’s seventeenth member rather than a neutral?

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  1. Mikael af Malmborg
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  1. Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

    Gustav Schmidt (Professor in International Politics) (Professor in International Politics)

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Malmborg, M.a. (2001). Sweden — NATO’s Neutral ‘Ally’? A Post-Revisionist Account. In: Schmidt, G. (eds) A History of NATO — The First Fifty Years. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-65573-1_18

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