ABSTRACT
There existed an indication for a recovery of activity in the industrialized countries when one looks at 'real' factors. This chapter focuses on the factors that were thought to influence Sweden's anti-apartheid policy. It includes the country's economic power, polity, debate over the choice of a socio-economic strategy, relations with other Western/Capitalist States, relations with Communist/Socialist States, and relations with South Africa. The findings of a quantitative study done by the Swedish Ministry of Economic Affairs provided a picture of Sweden's socio-economic posture in the global arena from the 1970s through the 1980s. Acknowledging the fact that Sweden was caught in a 'technology and socioeconomic trap', two major approaches were suggested to free Sweden from those 'traps'. Thus, further technological innovation suggested by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and further state intervention suggested by the Swedish Labor Union (LO) in its call for a Wage-earners' Fund.
