Notions of Neutralities (eBook)

Pascal Lottaz, Herbert R. Reginbogin (Herausgeber)

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2018
336 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-8227-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Notions of Neutralities examines the concept of neutrality at the international level over the last millennium. The eleven contributors approach the topic from multiple disciplinary perspectives and examine neutrality in several regions and time periods. They demonstrate that neutrality always was and still is an active and essential part of the international system.

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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.

Autor

Pascal Lottaz teaches at Temple University, Japan Campus.Herbert R. Reginbogin teaches at Touro College.

Inhalt

Preface, Pascal Lottaz and Herbert R. ReginboginIntroduction, Pascal Lottaz and Herbert R. ReginboginChapter 1: A Three-Fold Struggle over Neutrality: The American Experience in the 1930s, Stephen C. NeffChapter 2: Changing Concepts and Understandings of Neutrality in the Cold War: The Neutral and Non-Aligned States (N+N), Oliver BangeChapter 3: “Neutrality, our most precious treasure, keeps war far away.” Narratives of Dutch Neutrality, 1840-1940, Wim KlinkertChapter 4: The Forgotten History of Maritime Neutrality, 1500–1800, Leos MüllerChapter 5: The British View of Neutrality in 1872, Elizabeth ChadwickChapter 6: Neutrality and Wartime Japan, Pascal LottazChapter 7: "Private Neutrality”: The Bank for International Settlements, Pascal Lottaz and Herbert R. ReginboginChapter 8: Neutrality as an Instrument of Soviet Foreign Policy, 1945-53, Peter RuggenthalerChapter 9: Neutrality: Past Lessons & Visions: Providing Peace, Security, and Justice in the 21st Century, Herbert R. ReginboginChapter 10: The Vatican, WWII, and Asia: Lessons of Neutral Diplomacy, Pascal Lottaz and Florentino RodaoChapter 11: The Evolution of Yugoslav Non-alignment: How Yugoslavia Abandoned its Opposition to Neutrality, Tvrtko JakovinaChapter 12: Politics of Neutrality in the Post-Soviet Space: A Comparison of Concepts, Practices, and Outcomes of Neutrality in Moldova, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine 1990–2015, David X. NoackConclusion, Pascal Lottaz and Herbert R. Reginbogin

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.11.2018
• Co-Autor: Oliver Bange, Florentino Rodao, Peter Ruggenthaler, ELIZABETH CHADWICK, Tvrtko Jakovina, Wim Klinkert, Pascal Lottaz, Leos Muller, Stephen C. Neff, David X. Noack, Herbert R. Reginbogin
• Zusatzinfo: 3 Illustrations including: - 1 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 2 Maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Schlagworte: Cold War • Consolato del Mare • International Law • International Relations • Nineteenth century • Non-alignment • Permanent neutrality • war and peace
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-8227-3 / 1498582273
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-8227-8 / 9781498582278