Schweizer Modell könnte Bürgerkrieg in Nahost verhindern
Interview with Swissinfo on whether Switzerland's consociational power-sharing model offers lessons for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In this interview with Swissinfo (May 2021), I was asked whether Switzerland's consociational model — combining proportional representation, a rotating presidency, and guaranteed linguistic and cantonal representation — could serve as a blueprint for managing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I explained the logic of personal federalism as an alternative to territorial partition, which would allow Israelis and Palestinians to govern their own internal affairs while sharing central authority over foreign policy and security. I also pointed to the critical limitation: any workable arrangement requires a symmetry of trust and power that does not currently exist, making the Swiss model an instructive reference point but not an off-the-shelf solution.