The subject is Swedish foreign policy history, from 1810 to Sweden's membership of NATO in 2024. This period is often cited as a period of non-alignment and neutrality to which we have now said goodbye. Since the short war against Norway in 1814, which resulted in the establishment of the Swedish-Norwegian Union, Sweden has been able to enjoy peace, but the manuscript in question argues that the thesis that we have left behind a period of 200 years of non-alignment and neutrality is simplified, not entirely correct and thus somewhat misleading. The author shows how the period provides several examples of non-alignment and conscious non-neutrality. This applies above all to the 19th century, which for a while was characterized by Scandinavian solidarity currents, but it also applies to the 20th century, where Oscar I's so-called November Treaty of 1855 with two Western powers continued to apply on paper until 1908. After that, Sweden was neutral during the First World War, but when the League of Nations (NF) was created, Sweden declared itself ex-neutral together with other states. Until 1936, we were part of an alliance of collective security. However, the credibility of Denna and the NF collapsed after Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia. During the Finnish Winter War of 1939-40, Sweden opted out of neutrality to show solidarity with its neighbor. During the 1990-91 Kuwait War, Sweden was part of the UN alliance against Saddam's Iraq. The process towards NATO membership concludes the script, which fills a gap in the foreign policy literature.