 Nyorai kuenderera mberi kwechikamu chino - kusarerekera kweSweden kunoreva mutemo wekare weSweden wekusarerekera mukukakavadzana kwehondo, iyo yaishandiswa kubva pakutanga kwezana ramakore rechi19, kusvika muna 2009, apo Sweden yakapinda muzvibvumirano zvakasiyana-siyana zvekudzivirira pamwe neEuropean Union EU, nedzimwe nyika dzeNordic. Tsika yeSweden yapfuura yokusava nedivi renyika yakanga yatangira zvikurukuru somugumisiro wokubatanidzwa kweSweden muHondo dzaNapoleon umo zvinopfuura chikamu chimwe muzvitatu zvenyika yacho chakarasika, kubatanidza kurasikirwa kunorwadza kweFinland kuRussia. Kutsamwira mambo wekare kwakakonzera kuputsa hurumende uye hurumende itsva yakagadzira mutemo mutsva wekunze uyo wakazozivikanwa se The Policy of 1812. Kubvira panguva yeHondo dzaNapoleon, Sweden haina kutanga kurwisana kupi nokupi kwokurwa zvakananga. Zvisinei, mauto eSweden nehurumende vave vachiita mabasa makuru ekuchengetedza runyararo uye mamwe mabasa ekutsigira mauto pasi rose. Kubatanidzwa muEuropean Union muna 1995 kwakareva kuti kusatora rutivi somutemo kwakaparadzwa. Sweden nanhasi ichiri nyika isina kwayakarerekera uye isina kubatana mune zvematongerwo enyika uye zvekuchengetedza. Zvisinei, inochengetedza zvisungo zvakasimba kuNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO. 