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Appeal for the Spirit of Helsinki
Wouldn’t it be nice.
By Nordic Peace Alliance
The world and Europe need detente and to build paths for peace. Both between people and with other living beings in the thin membrane of life that is our common home.
More than fifty y...
Ancient Neutrality
The busts of Thucydides and Kautilya looking at each other—as imagined by AI.
Preprint, August 2026
By Pascal Lottaz and Sumit Kumar Pathak
Abstract
Neutrality is often treated as a creation of late-medieval Europe that matu...
Armed Neutrality & The Consistent Renunciation of War
Rosa Luxemburg in the Swiss Alps. Integrale, armed neutrality is a quintessentially left concept.
Text By Niklaus Ramseyer, Berne.
(Original article here in German)
Armed neutrality means consistently renouncing war as a primitive, back...
Are Western Illusions of Victory Driving Ukraine Towards Collapse?
Text By Michael von der Schulenburg
As recently as 26 July this year, Ursula von der Leyen appeared full of confidence in victory during her visit to Kyiv: she claimed the tide of the war had turned, that Ukraine had regained the initiativ...
Fear And Stability: The Case of Japan and North Korea
A viewer of my YouTube channel recently wrote me in response to an interview I did with Professor Aya Ikegame (of Kyoto University), in which she used the word “crazy” to describe the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un. My viewer interpreted...
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I'm a (Swiss) academic in Japan, Associate Professor at Kyoto University, working on neutrality in IR. I also run the YouTube show "Neutrality Studies", where I explore world politics with various guests.
Dr. Sumit Kumar Pathak serves as a faculty member in the Department of Political Studies, Central University of South Bihar,India. His primary areas of interest include Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Neutrality Studies and Global Politics.
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