ABSTRACT
This chapter provides two illustrations of the interplay between a salient environment theory and domestic politics factors. In both illustrations, the theory deals with bandwagoning in the face of unipolarity: in the former case a unipole with predominantly negative sanctions; in the latter case bandwagoning in the face of a 'pole of attraction' with predominantly positive sanctions. In the former illustration, the theory is combined with an explanatory mechanism about foreign policy lessons learnt from past experience; in the latter, all kinds of domestic political factors are at stake. As a would-be insider, the parameters of the unipolar power structure were stronger for Sweden than conceivable domestic factors or historical experience. The theory being anchored at the salient environment level, it should be illustrated how domestic factors including culture and tradition and various external factors interplay with the theoretically significant external ones.
