'Sweden vs Apartheid' examines the effort by the Swedish government and
civil society in Sweden to abolish the system of apartheid that was
instituted in South Africa in 1948. There are many reasons why this book
is important. It explores the foreign policy 'posture' of a state, looks
at Sweden's neutrality policy which embraced the idea of international
solidarity with weaker states and groups, and examines the first Western
state to adopt an active anti-apartheid stance when such a position was
quite unpopular in the West. The analysis blends both international
relations and comparative political approaches to take a critical look
at the role played by Sweden in the defeat of the apartheid system.