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A channel dedicated to neutrality in international relations and analysis of world affairs. For more info, visit neutralitystudies.com
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Originally published on Jan 27, 2026.Everyone thinks neutrality means staying out of trouble. But what if it's actually about diving straight into the chaos to stay involved? We need to ask: is international law just a tool for the powerful, or can the little guys use it to strike back?To find out, I brought in Dr. Stefano Catellan and Professor Frederick Dhondt from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. They’ve spent years digging into this history for their new book, Small Power Neutrality and the Law of the Sea, uncovering how small nations used the open ocean to outsmart the world's biggest empires.Links:[Book] Small Power Neutrality and the Law of the Sea: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Small-Neutra...Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudiesNeutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com(Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/a...)Merch & Donations: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...
Originally published on Jan 26, 2026.Is the transatlantic partnership simply an abusive marriage disguised as diplomacy? We examine if the recent spectacle at Davos signals the collapse of Western cohesion and ask whether Europe possesses the resolve to finally decouple from a volatile American leadership or remain trapped in a fading colonial dynamic.Today I sit down again with Chandran Nair, founder of the Global Institute for Tomorrow. As a Malaysian scholar and author of “Understanding China”, Chandran offers an unvarnished perspective from the Global Majority, cutting through the self-congratulatory noise of the Western elite to reveal the geopolitical shifts they refuse to see.Links:The USA Today: a Derangement Threatening the World: https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/...China has a worthy blueprint to improve the UN system. Why is the West ignoring it?: https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinio...[Book] Understanding China - Governance, Socio-Economics, Global Influence: https://global-inst.com/understanding...Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudiesNeutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com(Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/a...)Merch & Donations: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...
Originally published on Jan 24, 2026.How does a journalist get snatched off a quiet Zurich street by plainclothes officers? Why did a federal police chief allegedly break protocol to force his expulsion? And most chillingly, who were the mysterious agents attempting an illegal interrogation inside his prison cell?These aren't hypothetical scenarios from a spy thriller—they are the exact questions I had to ask Ali Abunimah. As the co-founder of The Electronic Intifada and a relentless voice for Palestinian human rights, Ali has faced decades of demonization, but his recent ordeal in my home country of Switzerland reveals a terrifying new low for Western democracies. We dive deep into the corruption exposed by his recent court victory, the shadowy figures involved, and the systemic collapse of free speech we are witnessing in real-time.Links:Electronic Intifada: https://electronicintifada.net/Ali's X (Twitter): https://x.com/AliAbunimahNeutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudiesNeutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com(Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/a...)Merch & Donations: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...
Originally published on Jan 23, 2026.With Western elites in Davos finally abandoning the charade of a "rules-based order" and Trump’s trade wars alienating even New Delhi, we face a stark reality: Is globalization dead, or just changing management? And if the West is bowing out, is India ready to lead the Global South?To map out this volatile landscape, I sat down with two Indian colleagues who see these shifts not as threats, but as inevitable evolutions. Professor Anuradha Chenoy, the former Dean of the School of International Studies at JNU, brings the historical weight of the non-aligned perspective, while Kanika Raka from the Kautilya School of Public Policy offers a sharp look at the tactical realities of India's 2026 BRICS chairmanship. We aren't just speculating on the end of Western hegemony; we're discussing the nuts and bolts of what actually comes next.Links:Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudiesNeutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com(Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/a...)Merch & Donations: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...
Originally published on Jan 22, 2026. Is the West steering its ship of state directly into an iceberg while the captain refuses to turn the wheel? Can a financialized economy fueled by debt ever hope to defeat an autarkic industrial powerhouse fueled by real energy? And why does our leadership seem paralyzed by a collective delusion rather than guided by strategy?To parse through this fog of war, I turned to Commodore Steve Jermy. A retired British Navy officer who spent his career commanding destroyers, Steve doesn't just theorize about strategy—he has lived it. He joins me to dismantle the myths of the current conflict, applying the rigorous logic of a military commander and energy expert to explain why the current Western approach isn't just failing, but is mathematically impossible to sustain.Links:Articles by Steve:NATO – https://responsiblestatecraft.org/nat...Balance of Power – https://braveneweurope.com/steven-jer...Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudiesNeutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com(Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/a...)Merch & Donations: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...
Originally published on Jan 22, 2026.How does a "ragtag" opposition manage to smuggle 50,000 Starlink terminals into a heavily sanctioned fortress? The recent chaos in Tehran was not a genuine uprising but a US-Israeli orchestrated regime change operation. Its failure means a whole lot for US hegemony in the region.To deconstruct this fog of war, I sat down with investigative journalist and award-winning author Hugh Miles. As the founder of ArabDigest.org, Hugh has been tracking the pulse of the Middle East for decades, and his latest analysis offers a piercing look at how Tehran survived the onslaught and what this historic failure signals for the collapsing Zionist project.Links:Article without paywall: https://arabdigest.org/sample-newslet...ArabDigest article: https://arabdigest.org/arab-digest-ne...Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudiesNeutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com(Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/a...)Merch & Donations: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...
Originally published on Jan 21, 2026.35 years ago, Francis Fukuyama declared in „the end of history“ that the contest of ideologies was over. Liberal-capitalist democratic systems had won and would be the global standard for the next Millennia. But is this really working out? Here to help with this question is Dr. William I. Robinson, Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Santa Barbara, and the author of „Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism“.Links:William's academic page: https://soc.ucsb.edu/people/william-i...Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism (Book): https://www.amazon.com/Epochal-Crisis...Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudiesNeutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com(Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/a...)Goods Store: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...
Originally published on Jan 20, 2026.Fight censorship. Stay connected via substack. Subscribe here: https://pascallottaz.substack.comWhat really stopped the US carrier group from launching strikes on Iran? Is it possible to fight back when the algorithmic gods delete your channel and your bank account simultaneously?I’m diving into these jagged edges of reality with Larry C. Johnson. As a former CIA analyst and key voice within Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, Larry doesn’t just speculate on the machinery of empire—he knows the blueprints, having watched the system turn its crosshairs from foreign adversaries to domestic dissenters.Links:Sonar21: https://sonar21.com/Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudiesNeutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com(Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/a...)Goods Store: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...
Originally published on Jan 19, 2026.This one is wild. Trump is (ab)using a UN Security Council Resolution that was meant to structure some form of post-Genozide Gaza to form his very own extraterritorial international organisation with which he will most likely do investments around the globe. Peace-Building without peace. Trumpian to the core.Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudiesFollow us on Substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com Our shop: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...
Originally published on Jan 19, 2026.Many of you may know that the EU has begun persecuting its own citizens and legal residents with foreign policy measures in the form of putting them on the Russia-Sanctions list, like my compatriots, Jacques Baud and Nathalie Yamb. This extra-legal way of cracking down on people is what I’ll discuss today with one of Germany’s most outspoken legal experts. I’ve got with me Dr. Hans-Georg Maassen, a German lawyer and former top intelligence official, who served as President of Germany's domestic intelligence agency (BfV) from 2012 to 2018.Dr. Maassen's Homepage: https://hgmaassen.comNeutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudiesSubscribe to us on Substack (so we can stay in touch even when banned on YouTube): https://pascallottaz.substack.com Our shop: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...
Originally published on Jan 18, 2026.Switzerland on the path of Finland and Sweden: How the Swiss government, in its new security strategy, is paving the way into NATO and wants to put the whole society into a state of security paralysis.Links:Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudiesPlease subscribe on Substack to stay in touch even if YouTubes starts censoring again: https://pascallottaz.substack.com Our shop: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth... Switzerland's Security Policy Strategy 2026: https://www.sepos.admin.ch/en/securit...
Originally published on Jan 17, 2026.For 80 years our leaders have been working on the weapons and the plans to exterminate the planet and kill us all. And they got very good at it. Professor Ivana Hughes and Professor Steven Starr explain in this masterful presentation what nuclear war really means.Links:Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudiesSubscribe on substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com Our shop: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...
Originally published on Jan 16, 2026.The chaos of the West is not random. It's the outcome of decades of planning and the emergence of a new class of rulers, the securitocrats, the people who subsume all of society under the idea of "security". Nel Bonilla is a researcher and substack author, analysing the structure of the social forces that the new elites in Europe and the USA have unleashed. Nel's articles:substack.com/@nelbonilla/note/c-190184086substack.com/@nelbonilla/note/c-192104653substack.com/@nelbonilla/note/c-192533012substack.com/@nelbonilla/note/c-193882785substack.com/@nelbonilla/note/c-194208411Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudiesNeutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com(Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/a...)Goods Store: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...
Originally published on Jan 15, 2026.Georgia has a new pro-neutrality party. I'm sitting down with one of its founding members, the former Georgian Ambassador, Konstatin Zhgenti, to talk about the new movement for a neutral and sovereign Georgia that wants to be friends to all, and foe to no one.Links:Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudiesNeutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com(Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/a...)Goods Store: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...
Originally published on Jan 13, 2026.Subscribe to my channel on Substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com Links to Stas:Stanislav Krapivnik's YouTube Channel: @MrSlavikmanStanislav Krapivnik's Telegram: https://t.me/stastydaiobratnoNeutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudiesNeutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com(Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/a...)Goods Store: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...
Originally published on Jan 12, 2026.Links:Ezequiel's channel (Spanish): @demoliendomitosdelapolitica Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudiesNeutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com(Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/a...)Goods Store: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...
Originally published on Jan 10, 2026.Links:Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudiesNeutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com Goods Store: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...
Originally published on Jan 9, 2026.On December 15, the EU listed the former Swiss army colonel, Jacques Baud, on its Russia Sanctions list, barring him from even buying food. He isn't suffering because he committed any crime. On the contrary, his actions are perfectly legal; they are just not the kind of "behavior" the EU likes to see, so it uses a foreign policy tool (sanctions) to bar him from all and any activities of normal human life. But Col. Baud is unbroken. He is resisting the draconian measures and decided to pick up the fight against this regime extralegal injustice. Make no mistake: What is happening to Col. Baud could happen to anyone tomorrow. The sanctions are a regime of pure, arbitrary political persecution.Links:Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudiesNeutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com(Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/a...)Goods Store: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...
Originally published on Jan 8, 2026.What do you call a form of state in which, because of its foreign policy, citizens can be persecuted domestically and harassed to the point of clear human rights violations? And all of this within a construct in which citizens are free to elect their national and supranational representatives? Exactly—we don’t have a word for it. But “anti-democracy” wouldn’t be a bad fit. That is how far my guest today goes: the renowned German journalist and public intellectual, Patrik Baab.We talk about the sanctions against Jacques Baud, Nathalie Yamb, Hüseyin Dogru, and other EU/Schengen citizens, as well as about his work to push back against this—as a journalist and through a new YouTube format.Links: Original Video in German: • Die EU bringt die Anti-Demokratie: Sanktio... Our shop: • Die EU bringt die Anti-Demokratie: Sanktio... Patrik Baab's Homepage: https://www.patrikbaab.dePatrik Baab's YT Channel (German): / @patrikbaab-official Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudiesNeutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com Goods Store: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...
Originally published on Jan 6, 2026.With the "mask fully off" regarding the intervention in Venezuela, I’m left wondering: has the international order officially dissolved into the law of the jungle? As the crosshairs shift toward Tehran, will Russia and China finally shatter the sanctions regime to prevent regime change?To understand if we are witnessing the Soviet-style collapse of the West, I’ve invited back Dr. Pietro Shakarian, a lecturer in history at the American University of Armenia in Yerevan, to offer his analysis from the strategic crossroads of the Caucasus.Links:Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudiesNeutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com(Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/a...)Goods Store: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...
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