Is neutrality still useful?
Einen Tag nach der Aufnahme der Schweiz als Vollmitglied in die Vereinten Nationen weht am Mittwoch, 11. September 2002 die Schweizer Fahne vor dem UNO Hauptsitz in New York bei steifer Brise zwischen den Fahnen Schwedens und Syriens. (KEYSTONE/Alessandro della Valle)
Neutrality is a concept essential to Switzerland's very existence. Yet we may well question its usefulness today, in a situation totally different from when it was first established. Are there relevant reasons for maintaining it?
In a security survey published in 2017 by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), 95% of the Swiss population said they were attached to neutrality. Yet if we look at the world we live in, it's increasingly difficult to find a use for neutrality. So let's try to understand how neutrality is no longer really adapted to the problems of the world around us, based in part on the work of Professor René Schwok.
Swiss neutrality is a permanent neutrality. Whether in times of conflict or in peacetime, Switzerland considers itself neutral. However
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