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Swiss Foreign Policy provides in-depth insights into the procedures
and constraints of Swiss foreign policy, answering questions such
as:
* Why is Switzerland not a member of the European Union?
* What are the implications of staying apart and how important is
neutrality in today's Europe?
* What are the implications of federalism and direct democracy on
foreign policy?
* How should conflicting interests in foreign policy
decision-making be dealt with?
The book is essential reading to all those interested in foreign
policy analysis, the relationship between democracy and
international relations, the significance of being a small state in
contemporary Europe and the specificities of the Swiss political
system.
Swiss Foreign Policy provides in-depth insights into the procedures
and constraints of Swiss foreign policy, answering questions such
as:
* Why is Switzerland not a member of the European Union?
* What are the implications of staying apart and how important is
neutrality in today's Europe?
* What are the implications of federalism and direct democracy on
foreign policy?
* How should conflicting interests in foreign policy
decision-making be dealt with?
The book is essential reading to all those interested in foreign
policy analysis, the relationship between democracy and
international relations, the significance of being a small state in
contemporary Europe and the specificities of the Swiss political
system.
Small States in and outside the European Union offers a broad
overview of the small states problematic in Europe. It touches upon
definition issues, history, security policy, neutrality, EU
institutional aspects and also includes contributors from Central
and Eastern European countries. It presents a thorough analysis of
different scenarios for EU institutional reform and their
repercussions on the influence of small member states. The
comparative results are visualized in tables. The work contains
several contributions from practitioners who give insight into
policy games and issues of national sensitivity not usually covered
by purely scholarly publications. The European environment has
changed dramatically through the processes of regional integration
and rising interdependence. Relations between European states both
inside and outside the EU are governed as never before by rules,
norms, and fixed procedures. The book investigates the consequences
of these developments on the foreign and security policy of small
states. Academics and professionals from Austria, Denmark, Finland,
Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Sweden, and Switzerland,
as well as from the European Commission and the Council of
Ministers, elaborate on these issues. Institutional regulations and
traditional power politics as well as the foreign and security
policy traditions of the states concerned, including the question
of neutrality, are investigated. In addition, the book identifies
the main interests of small states in today's Europe and offers an
overview of different strategies these states apply in the realm of
foreign and security policy. The book is interesting for the case
studies it offers as well as for the reflections it contains
regarding fundamental questions of the essence of statehood in
today's Europe.
Small States in and outside the European Union offers a broad
overview of the small states problematic in Europe. It touches upon
definition issues, history, security policy, neutrality, EU
institutional aspects and also includes contributors from Central
and Eastern European countries. It presents a thorough analysis of
different scenarios for EU institutional reform and their
repercussions on the influence of small member states. The
comparative results are visualized in tables. The work contains
several contributions from practitioners who give insight into
policy games and issues of national sensitivity not usually covered
by purely scholarly publications. The European environment has
changed dramatically through the processes of regional integration
and rising interdependence. Relations between European states both
inside and outside the EU are governed as never before by rules,
norms, and fixed procedures. The book investigates the consequences
of these developments on the foreign and security policy of small
states. Academics and professionals from Austria, Denmark, Finland,
Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Sweden, and Switzerland,
as well as from the European Commission and the Council of
Ministers, elaborate on these issues. Institutional regulations and
traditional power politics as well as the foreign and security
policy traditions of the states concerned, including the question
of neutrality, are investigated. In addition, the book identifies
the main interests of small states in today's Europe and offers an
overview of different strategies these states apply in the realm of
foreign and security policy. The book is interesting for the case
studies it offers as well as for the reflections it contains
regarding fundamental questions of the essence of statehood in
today's Europe.
The politics of peace has undergone tremendous changes since the
end of the Cold War: It moved from an ideological debate into a
well-established policy field. How does this affect its content?
And, what are the implications for peace research? On the occasion
of its 20th anniversary, the Swiss Peace Foundation (swisspeace)
invited contributions from eminent experts regarding the most
controversial issues of this debate, which include state building,
international interventions, civil society, and business actors.
The book concludes with some thoughts on the interaction between
research and politics. (Series: Internationale Politik - Vol. 3)
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the wars in Yugoslavia
radically changed the security environment in Europe and Central
Asia. Some predictions assumed the emerging unipolarity of the
liberal world order would end neutrality policies in East and West,
but, as this volume shows, this was not the case. While some
traditional Cold War neutrals like Sweden and Finland have been
edging closer to security alignment with western institutions,
there are others like Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, and Malta that
remained committed to their traditional nonaligned foreign policy
approaches. More importantly, there are areas of Eurasia that
developed new forms of neutrality policies, most of them only
noticed on the margins of academic discourse. This is the first
book to systematically explore this "new neutralism" of the
Post-Cold War. In part one, the book analyzes contemporary
neutrality discourse on several levels like international
organizations (UN, ASEAN), diplomacy, and academic theory. Part two
discusses neutrality-related policy developments in Belarus,
Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Serbia, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and
Mongolia. Together, the 15 chapters show how on this vast,
connected landmass references to neutrality have remained a staple
of international politics.
The notion that neutrality is a phenomenon only relevant to the
Cold War is false in many ways. The Cold War was about building
blocks, neutrality about staying out of them. From 1975 until the
end of the Cold War, neutral states offered mediation and good
offices and fought against the stagnation of the detente policy
especially in the framework of the CSCE. After the end of the Cold
War, neutral states became active in peace-operations outside of
military alliances. The concept of neutrality has proven time and
again that it can adapt to new situations. In many ways, small
neutral states have more room to maneuver than members of alliances
or big powers. They have more acceptance and fewer geopolitical
interests. Neutrality has been declared obsolete many times in its
long and layered history., yet it has also made many comebacks in
varying forms and contexts. Neutrality in the 21st century does not
involve to staying out but engaging. In contrast to disengagement
and staying out, engaged neutrality entails active participation in
the international security policy in general and in international
peace operations in particular. Engaged neutrality means
involvement whenever possible and staying out only if necessary.
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