title: Liquid neutrality
abstract: An often overlooked aspect of the crisis of democracy is foreign and security policy. The high costs of the war and unearthing of the United States (US) schemes that escalated the Vietnam conflict into a full-scale war meant a crucial loss of legitimacy for the US regime. Andrew Cottey has stated, referring to other scholars, that non-alignment has become a part of the identity of the European neutrals, and therefore it is rather unlikely that they would abandon this policy. During the Cold War,