Notions of Neutralities

Pascal Lottaz; Herbert R. Reginbogin

doi:10.5771/9781498582278

Summary

Neutrality serves different purposes during times of war and peace. ‘Notions of Neutralities’ portrays those historical challenges that neutrals faced, and are still facing, to maintain some form of economic stability and political order as chaos and wars rage. Neutrals are exposed to existential issues and questions of civil-society, international politics, and morality, in a world defiant to principles of universal peace. Every age has its own armed conflicts and while the questions they raise are often the same, the answers are different because the international word order changes. Is neutrality justifiable even when the humanity of civilization is at risk as in the Second World War or the wars of the post-Cold War era? Can those who refuse the call to arms still act by providing humanitarian services to contain the impact of war or, on the contrary, are neutrals shut-off from global politics – mere weaklings that “suffer what they must?"

This book addresses such questions through an interdisciplinary scholarship by some of the world’s foremost experts on neutrality. Twelve chapters tackle different but profound aspects of the concept over a span of five hundred years. They succinctly show the evolution of international norms in the context of war and peace. What is more, the essays portray fundamental categories of thinking about a variety of neutralities that the international system has produced in the past and present. The authors discuss the complexities of neutrality, providing a new and refreshing understanding of international relations and security for the past as well as for the multipolar world of the twenty-first century.

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Copyright year: 2018
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-8226-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-8227-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 310
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Introduction No access
1. 1. The Context No access
  2. The Schools in Contention No access
  3. Conclusion No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Selected Bibliography No access
2. 1. The Context No access
  2. Open Questions No access
  3. Conclusion and Outlook No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Selected Bibliography No access
3. 1. What Kind of Neutrality? No access
  2. Neutrality as an Argument for Stronger Defense No access
  3. The Dutch Calling: Neutrality and International Law No access
  4. Shifting Opinions, 1914–1918 No access
  5. Interwar Years: The Army as the Savior of Neutrality No access
  6. The Sudden and Massive Attack No access
  7. Bottom-up Pressure: The Committee for National Security No access
  8. The Morality of Neutrality No access
  9. Heroic Neutrality in Popular Culture No access
  10. A Farewell to Neutrality No access
  11. Concluding Remarks No access
  12. Notes No access
  13. Selected Bibliography No access
1. 1. The Origins of Maritime Neutrality No access
  2. Two Perspectives on Neutrality and Neutral Shipping No access
  3. The Practice of Shipping under Neutral Flags No access
  4. Concluding Remarks No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Selected Bibliography No access
2. 1. Overview of the Law Arbitrated in Geneva No access
  2. The British View of the Diligence “Due”—Cockburn’s Dissent No access
  3. Conclusion No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Selected Bibliography No access
3. 1. Who was Neutral and When? No access
  2. Great Power Neutrals—The Game Changers No access
  3. Small Power Neutrals—Diplomatic Service Providers of Last Resort No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Selected Bibliography No access
1. 1. The Notion of “Private Neutrality” No access
  2. Origins of the BIS No access
  3. Independent and Ready for War No access
  4. The Mind-set of a Bygone Era No access
  5. Cartels and the Ideology of stability No access
  6. The So-called Statement of Neutrality No access
  7. Conclusion No access
  8. Notes No access
  9. Selected Bibliography No access
2. 1. Moscow and the Byrnes Plan for Germany No access
  2. Neutrality for Austria under Stalin? No access
  3. A Scandinavian “Nordic Defense Union”? No access
  4. Neutrality in the Middle East? No access
  5. Neutrality for Scandinavia? No access
  6. A Neutral, Unified Germany? No access
  7. Conclusion No access
  8. Notes No access
  9. Selected Bibliography No access
3. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Perception of Neutrality from the nineteenth-century until 1945 No access
  3. Neutrality and the Cold War No access
  4. Neutrality and the Divergent Views of the Twenty-First Century International World Order No access
  5. The World Issues as we Know Them Today No access
  6. Wilson and Schmitt—The Testing Ground for Faith, Freedom, and International Relations No access
  7. Neutrality—New Norms—New Security Architecture No access
  8. Humanitarian Intervention—Permanent Neutrality No access
  9. Conclusion: Permanent Neutrality as an Institution of Peace for this Century No access
  10. Notes No access
  11. Selected Bibliography No access
1. 1. The Pius War, Moral Conflagrations of Neutrality, and Asia No access
  2. The Vatican and the Japanese Empire No access
  3. Conclusion No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Selected Bibliography No access
2. 1. Yugoslavia’s Discovery of Asian Allies No access
  2. The Fight for Neutralism—The Fight against Neutralism No access
  3. The Discovery of Neutral States No access
  4. The End of the NNC No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Newspaper References No access
  7. Selected Bibliography No access
3. 1. The U.S.S.R and Neutrality No access
  2. Moldova’s Path of Neutrality 1994–2015: Concepts, Practices, and Outcomes No access
  3. Turkmenistan’s “Positive Neutrality” and Isolation 1992–2015 No access
  4. Ukraine’s Neutrality 1990–2014 No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Selected Bibliography No access
Conclusion No access Pages 289 - 296
Index No access Pages 297 - 306
About the Contributors No access Pages 307 - 310