Економічне співробітництво України і Швеції: історичні паралелі та досвід забезпечення постійного нейтралітету й державности (наприкінці XVІІІ – перша чверть XX ст.)

Abstract

The main idea of the article is the study of maintaining the principles of permanent neutrality, national competitiveness of the economy and the creation of a capable army basing on the example of economic cooperation between the Ukraine and Sweden in the end of the XVIII – the I quarter of the XX centuries. The author studied the problem of establishing economic and military co-operation between Ukraine and the Sweden in the end of the XVIII and in the I quarter of the XX centuries. Also the article covers the Swedish colonization of the Ukrainian lands at the end of the 18th and 19th centuries. The problem of economic cooperation between Ukraine and Sweden in the end of the XVIII and in the I quarter of the XX centuries, as well as the possible experience of partner-ship between the two countries in defense and security (in the first quarter of the XX century) became the subject of special research in this article.