Sweden From Neutrality to International Solidarity [Hardcover]

This book presents the legal and political factors determining international relations, including the processes of integration in all their complexity. The overall structure of the book, together with the composition of its separate chapters, allows for some general assumptions, identifying the main tendencies and placing them in a contemporary social context as well as establishing their relations with the practices of today. The content is a compendium of basic information and data related to the international processes which occur within specific formal, legal and political frames. The book is divided into five parts featuring not only deep historical context but most of all presenting current information and analyses of the last few years. Presented against the background and within the context of the Kingdom of Swedens political system and its international environment, the book brings into the foreground issues of particular importance for Swedens continuing European integration process and describes its response to the developments in the international situation.

Introduction.- Part I: Legal and political aspects of neutrality.- Chapter 1. Neutrality in International Relations: Theoretical Foundations.- Chapter 2. Neutrality in the theory of international relations.- Part II: Evolution Of Swedish Neutrality In A Historical Context.- Chapter 3. The origins of Swedens neutrality.- Chapter 4. Swedish foreign policy in the interwar period.- Chapter 5. Neutrality of Sweden and the experience of WWII.- Part III: Swedens Neutrality Policy: Evolution Of The Doctrine.- Chapter 6. End of war and beginning of peace.- Chapter 7. Neutrality in the foreign policy of the Kingdom of Sweden.- Chapter 8. The policy of active neutrality.- Chapter 9. Evolution of the policy of neutrality.- Part IV: Towards International Solidarity.- Chapter 10. Political transition in the last decade of the 20th century.- Chapter 11. Swedens accession to the Europlcö