Die Schweiz und die NATO: Neue Konvergenz

Author(s): Henrik Larsen
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Benno Zogg
Series Editor(s): Andreas Wenger
Book Title: Bulletin 2019 on Swiss Security Policy
Series: Bulletin on Swiss Security Policy
Pages: 55-73
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2019

NATO-Swiss relations have historically oscillated between convergence and divergence, argues Henrik Larsen in his contribution to the Bulletin 2019. Switzerland made efforts to promote norms through the Partnership for Peace until the end of the 2000s. NATO, in view of the Afghanistan mission, subsequently became interested in partners of operational value and, after 2014, for collective defence. The challenges of the digital age provide the prospect of a re-convergence of Swiss-NATO interests. According to Larsen, Bern should seize upon the opportunity to orient its partnership with NATO (back) towards international norms, which are also at the core of Switzerland’s own foreign policy.

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