Diplomacy Watch: Switzerland weighs break with policy of neutrality
A group of lawmakers in Bern wants to allow states to re-export Swiss weapons to support the fight in Ukraine.
Connor Echols is a reporter for Responsible Statecraft. He was previously an associate editor at the Nonzero Foundation, where he co-wrote a weekly foreign policy newsletter. Echols recently completed a fellowship with the Center for Arabic Study Abroad in Amman, Jordan, and he received his bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University, where he studied journalism and Middle East and North African Studies
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