Our world is dominated by war, news of war, legacies of past wars, and rumors of coming wars. Switzerland, however, has famously chosen not to conduct its international affairs in the register of violence, preferring instead diplomacy, trade, and armed neutrality.
Pascal Lottaz, a Swiss native researching at Kyoto University, is a pioneer in neutrality studies, or the study of, as Professor Lottaz puts it in this fascinating interview, taking the oxygen away from war by embracing the complexity of political and transnational interactions.
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