Cold War Hourui Shi National Security Concept Of Paradigm Shift

Since the end of Cold War, amount of new security issues has been emerging in international society. Besides traditional security issues, non-traditional security issues with a more distensible and complicated content, such as terrorism, nuclear weapons, infectious diseases, have become the new and tough challenges for all countries. Therefore, a flexible and capable security concept is required to meet these challenges so as to maintain national sovereignty and territorial integrity.Security is the prerequisite of national interests. National security concept is currently one of the most active issues in international security study. However, the study on the paradigm shift of national security concept is far from enough to meet the new emerging complicated security issues in the world, at this point, the research on this area is significant and valuable.This paper is intended to explore incentives of paradigm shift of a nation's security concept, and examines on the case of Switzerland's security concept from neutral security policy to cooperative security policy. The specific issue to be resolved is that, Switzerland as a recognized neutral country, but had joined the PFP advocated by NATO and the UN since the end of Cold War. What kind of factors influences Switzerland to make the paradigm shift of its security concept? What's the implication of this behavior? Therefore, this article is to work out this paradox problem.Based on the realism, liberalism and constructivism theories, this paper defines the conception of security, paradigm shift and designs a set of observations to measure influence factors including power, institution and cognition. Switzerland's incentives on paradigm shift of security concept are mainly related to the pursuit of power under the international situation at the end of Cold War, the desire to share the institutional advantages of NATO, OSCE, UN, the nation's cognition of national interest benefits from a cooperative security policy and the impact from other neutral countries in Europe. In short, the security concept shift arises from national interest.