Author: Pascal Lottaz

Pascal is an Associate Professor at Kyoto University where he researches Neutrality in International Relations.
“Cooperation” before “Neutrality”: Switzerland’s New Security Doctrine

“Cooperation” before “Neutrality”: Switzerland’s New Security Doctrine

Although Switzerland’s Federal Council rejected its Foreign Minister’s idea for “cooperative neutrality”, the new security doctrine it recently approved reverses parts of the alpine nation’s traditional neutrality concept. Preparations for collective defense with NATO and EU-states are underway.   

What the ‘Neutralization’ of Ukraine would actually mean 

What the ‘Neutralization’ of Ukraine would actually mean 

Debates about “Ukrainian neutrality” to end the war with Russia are picking up steam in the US. After many calls from international academics, last week, a former Assistant Secretary of State, A. Wess Mitchell, published a call for Ukrainian “fortified neutrality” in Foreign Affairs—the medium where George Kennan published his famous “Article X,” in 1947.