Free event - From Neutral Voice to Active Partner: Sweden’s Changing Role in World Politics and its Relationship to the U.S. ASF Visiting Lecturer Jan Joel Ander

Sweden’s foreign and security policies underwent dramatic transformations following the end of the Cold War. ASF Visiting Lecturer and Swedish Institute of International Affairs Senior Research Fellow Jan Joel Andersson draws upon his research to examine Sweden’s evolving role in world politics. From being a neutral country that emphasized contributions to the U.N. peacekeeping missions, today Sweden is an extraordinarily close partner to N.A.T.O and the U.S. in areas such as Afghanistan and the Balkans, and together with Norway and Denmark, was among the few European countries that contributed military assets in the N.A.T.O-led campaign in Libya this past summer.