Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 2009, i whakaae a Sweden ki te uru atu ki nga tiriti whakahoahoa me te EU, me etahi atu whenua Nordic, na reira ka mutu te wa roa o te 200 tau o te wehenga hoia mana. Hei hua o te 2010 U.S. kaikawe karere, i mohio ai te kāwanatanga o te United States i whakaahuatia Sweden o "mana haumarutanga mana" rite "kore whai wāhi i roto i te hōia alliances i roto i te wā o te rangimarie, me te tōrangapū i roto i te wā o te whawhai". Heoi anō, ka whai wāhi atu a Sweden ki ngā rōpū whawhai rerekē o NATO me EU, ā, kei te whai wāhi atu ki ngā whakahaere ao whānui. Mai i te Maehe-Oketopa 2011, ko Sweden he kaiuru i te roopu o te ao e arahina ana e te NATO i roto i te
Te pakanga i Libya. I te marama o Mei 2016, he rangahau i whakaatu mo te wa tuatahi he nui ake nga Swedes e pai ana ki te mema o te NATO i te mea e whakahe ana ki a ia. Ko ngā rōpū tōrangapū katoa o te rōpū tika-o-te-pokapū e pai ana ki te whakauru ki te NATO.