Swedish Foreign and Security Policy during the Cold War

The two military alliances in Europe with Sweden without alliance in the middle.

Foreign and security policies in Sweden during the Cold War were formed after the end of World War II. Sweden's geographical position was between the two military alliances of the Cold War, NATO and the Warsaw Pact. By not having alliances during peacetime with any of these blocks, the country with a superpower conflict wanted to have the possibility of being neutral. Using different policy measures was to ensure that neutrality was reliable.

Some incidents were Sweden's extradition of soldiers from the Baltic States, espionage, as well as the demolition of a DC-3 Swedish Air Force aircraft and suspicions about the violation of territorial waters by part of a submarine.

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