Issue Brief
Dec 22, 2023
Navigating Sweden’s NATO membership: Insights for political and operational adaptation
By
Viltaute Zarembaite, Christopher Skaluba, Ann Marie Dailey
Sweden is on the cusp of joining Finland as NATO’s newest members, bridging a crucial gap in the region’s security architecture and creating new opportunities for closer security cooperation. Once Sweden is in NATO, the Baltic Sea will be a geographically coherent strategic space—or, in more casual parlance, a “NATO lake.”