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Traces changes in the post-Cold War Swiss security policy from "security through autonomy" to "security through cooperation," armed participation in peace support operations, the Federal Council's (Bundesrat) 2000 army reforms, and related issues.

This article narrates interactions between diplomacy & social protest. Section 1 examines the international political & military pressures that elicited the "little detente" of 1963. Section 2 focuses on reforms within alliances & domestic institutions during the early 1960s. Section 3 looks at the long-term shortcomings of detente, especially in light of the near global revolts of 1968 & successive years. Comparative differences in political structure made alliance & domestic challenges more debilitating for the Soviet Union than for its Western counterparts. After 1968 the US & its West European allies entered a dark period of political suspicion & recrimination, but they managed to persevere. The Kremlin, in contrast, confronted deep, & ultimately irreparable, decline. Adapted from the source document.

Stresses the importance in the framing of military policy of the ability of a country's armed forces to function as part of multinational operations, such as those mounted by NATO; focus on implications for Swiss policy.

Discusses the report for 2000 on Switzerland's security policy, focusing on changes made in response to the Kosovo conflict and inclusion of a company of Swiss soldiers in the multinational peacekeeping force (KFOR) in Kosovo.