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From a Valuable Partner to an Indispensable Ally – Sweden’s Policy Towards NATO

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Górka-Winter B.

Studia Europejskie-Studies in European Affairs

2025

vol. 29

issue 2

37-56

Although it was Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine that provided the immediate impetus for it to apply for NATO membership, Sweden has long been an important military partner for both the United States and the Western world, particularly throughout the Cold War and during the Alliance’s transformation in the 1990s and 2000s. Now, when NATO’s Eastern and Northern ﬂanks are under constant pressure from Russia (both through military threats and hybrid tactics), Sweden’s strategic capabilities are seen within NATO as an essential element of the Alliance’s deterrence potential in this region. This is due not only to Sweden’s strategic location in the Baltic Sea basin (with thousands of islands, including the critically important island of Gotland), but is also due to its military and armament potential coming via specialised companies supplying high-end equipment. Sweden’s accession to NATO has signiﬁcantly increased the Alliance’s capabilities in many areas of deterrence and defence and has enlarged its room for manoeuvre in the Baltic Sea and also on the Eastern and Northern ﬂanks of NATO. At the same time, it has also increased Sweden’s resilience to the aforementioned growing military and hybrid pressure from the Russian Federation. This article examines Sweden’s evolving stance toward NATO, from being a partner in various forms of cooperation to a nation now on the cusp of full membership in the Alliance and a so-called “security provider”. By exploring the history of Sweden’s security policy, its strategic calculations, the role of NATO in Sweden’s defence strategy, and the shifting dynamics in global and regional security, this paper outlines the complexities and implications of Sweden’s evolving relationship with NATO.

Polityka Chińskiej Republiki Ludowej wobec Sojuszu Północnoatlantyckiego – uwarunkowania, stan obecny i perspektywy

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Górka-Winter B.

Wschodnioznawstwo

2023

vol. 17

201-214

Despite a possible commonality of interests in several spheres (counter‑terrorism, cyber‑security, maritime piracy, confidence‑building and security issues), there are many indications that there will be no fundamental rapprochement between China and the North Atlantic Alliance in the near future. Potential cooperation is blocked mainly by the politics of China, which sees NATO as a tool for the expansion of the United States and its hegemony both in the transatlantic region and beyond. Despite the efforts of several NATO members to initiate dialogue and even cooperation with China in the area of declared common interests (the operation in Afghanistan), these efforts ultimately failed, and since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine the distance between the potential partners has widened even further. In the near term, the state of relations between China and NATO will be mainly a product of the attitude of the United States toward China, and these have entered a phase of fierce rivalry since the Trump era, as well as China’s expressed views on the US’ instrumental use of the North Atlantic Pact to achieve its own goals in security policy.

Pomimo dającej się zarysować w kilku sferach wspólnoty interesów (zwalczanie terroryzmu, cyberbezpieczeństwo, piractwo morskie, kwestie budowy środków zaufania i bezpieczeństwa), wiele wskazuje na to, że w najbliższym czasie nie dojdzie do zasadniczego zbliżenia pomiędzy Chinami a Sojuszem Północnoatlantyckim. Potencjalną współpracę blokuje głównie polityka Chin, które postrzegają NATO jako narzędzie ekspansji Stanów Zjednoczonych oraz ich hegemonii zarówno w regionie transatlantyckim, jak i poza nim. Pomimo starań kilku członków NATO, by zainicjować z Chinami dialog, a nawet współpracę w obszarze zadeklarowanych wspólnych interesów (operacja w Afganistanie), wysiłki te ostatecznie zakończyły się niepowodzeniem, a od momentu wybuchu wojny w Ukrainie dystans pomiędzy potencjalnymi partnerami jeszcze się pogłębił. W najbliższym czasie stan relacji pomiędzy Chinami a NATO będzie w głównej mierze wypadkową stosunku Stanów Zjednoczonych wobec Chin, a te od czasów ery Trumpa weszły w fazę ostrej rywalizacji oraz wyrażanych przez Chiny opinii na temat instrumentalnego wykorzystywania przez USA Paktu Północnoatlantyckiego do realizacji własnych celów w polityce bezpieczeństwa.

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From a Valuable Partner to an Indispensable Ally – Sweden’s Policy Towards NATO

Polityka Chińskiej Republiki Ludowej wobec Sojuszu Północnoatlantyckiego – uwarunkowania, stan obecny i perspektywy