ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses that Swedish security policy has been in an evolving state of transition since the 1990s. It argues that notions of actorness are also at the core of many of the central concepts of 'political entrepreneurship' and particular the works of 'policy entrepreneurs'. The chapter also argues that there are meaningful intellectual avenues and substantial explanatory power in combining Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) and political entrepreneurship concepts and techniques when exploring notions of foreign policy change. The policy makers are taken to mean politicians and political appointees holding political office and thus include a wider array of policy makers than the policy advisors mostly discussed in the context of the US case by David. The chapter describes that the existence of the EU's security policy frameworks provides a stable and yet differentiated policy environment, governing and streaming the channels of both vertical and horizontal coordination undertaken by Swedish actors.
