Pascal Lottaz

Dr. Pascal Lottaz is an Assistant Professor for Neutrality Studies at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, in Tokyo. He received his MA and PhD from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (Japan) and specializes on neutral actors in international relations, especially on neutrality during the two World Wars and during the Cold War. He recently published the books Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War (Routledge, 2022), Permanent Neutrality: A Model for Peace, Security, and Justice (Lexington Books, 2020), and Notions of Neutralities (Lexington Books, 2019). He leads the research network neutralitystudies.com.

Recent articles by Pascal Lottaz

There is no way in which China is a threat to Australia or even the US

There is no way in which China is a threat to Australia or even the US

Pearls and Irritations editor-in-chief John Menadue talks to Pascal Lottez of Neutrality Studies about Western misconceptions of China and the narrative that has led to a very poor understanding of the biggest power in Asia.

Finally, the effort to engineer regime change in Syria has been achieved

Finally, the effort to engineer regime change in Syria has been achieved

The first CIA effort at regime change in Syria was in 1947 at the very moment of its inception. And there were multiple efforts to overthrow governments in Syria and well before Bashar Al Assad took power. ... They all failed. There were efforts of course to change the Bashar Al Assad regime, to overthrow it. Hillary Clinton and others famously advocated that the United States CIA spent about 5 billion dollars in training of various groups including this one to overthrow the regime, presumably on behalf of Israeli security interests which have been foremost in the minds of the...