ABSTRACT
It is quite obvious that Sweden and Finland belong to a category all by themselves in the community of NATO's Partnership for Peace (PfP) countries. 2 As old and solid democracies in a peaceful and stable corner of Europe, with similar long histories of peacekeeping experience, and with military contributions to most NATO missions since the end of the Cold War, these two countries appear to have little in common with the rest of the countries that make up the diverse PfP group.
