Part I: Re-imagining Neutrality in the Post-Cold War
Chapter 1: Neutrality and Geopolitics: Responding to Change by Laurent Goetschel
Chapter 2: Neutrality and Small States: A Strategic Approach by Hillary Briffa
Chapter 3: Neutrality and Neutralization: A Geopolitical Statecraft by Herbert Reginbogin
Chapter 4: Neutrality and Peacemaking: A Compass for Austrian Peace Policy by Thomas Roithner
Chapter 5: Neutrality and Diplomacy: Voices of Diplomats by Eva Nowotny and Peter Jankowitsch
Chapter 6: Neutrality in International Organizations I: The United Nations by Angela Kane
Chapter 7: Neutrality in International Organizations II: ASEAN by Charis Si En Tay
Part II: The New Neutrals in the Post-Communist Space
Chapter 8: Belarus: Between Alliance and Neutralism by Yauheni Preiherman and Pascal Lottaz
Chapter 9: Moldova: The Whims of Neutrality Politics by David X. Noack
Chapter 10: Ukraine: Overcoming Geopolitical Insecurity by Heinz Gärtner and Maya Janik
Chapter 11: Georgia: Neutrality as an Alternative to the Atlantic Course? By Heinz Gärtner and Maya Janik
Chapter 12: Serbia: Origins and Impacts of the Military Neutrality Policy by Keiichi Kubo
Chapter 13: Turkmenistan: The Eccentric Neutral by Luca Anceschi
Chapter 14: Afghanistan: A Path toward Stability with Permanent Neutrality? By Nasir A. Andisha
Chapter 15: Mongolia: Neutrality, a Nice Horse by Pascal Lottaz and Tumurjin Ganbaatar
Heinz Gärtner is lecturer in the department of political science at the University of Vienna and Danube University.
Pascal Lottaz is adjunct researcher at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study.
Herbert Reginbogin is professor of international relations and international law and currently fellow at The Catholic University of America.
The concept of neutrality in the international system dates back
more than 350 years, but it gained particular salience after 1945,
when Europe and the Asia-Pacific region were divided between rival
Cold War blocs led by the United States and the Soviet Union. The
starkness of the Cold War divide spurred some countries to seek
permanent neutrality, avoiding affiliation with either bloc.
Outside Europe, as decolonization led to the emergence of dozens of
new states, many joined what became the Nonaligned Movement, a
grouping that eventually encompassed 120 countries around the
world. The end of the Cold War division of Europe in 1989-1991
prompted speculation that neutrality in the post-Cold War world had
lost its raison d'être. This book shows that such claims were
incorrect. Although the meaning of neutrality has changed in the
post-Cold War era, the concept retains much of its cachet. The
essays gathered here explain why many countries nowadays continue
to pursue some variation of neutrality. Even readers who might
question some of the arguments in the book will find it an
exceptionally valuable and stimulating collection of ideas about
the multiple forms of neutrality in the post-Cold War international
system.
*Mark Kramer, Harvard University*
This volume opens a fascinating overview on how the fluid, varied
and always contested policy of neutrality has traveled through the
post-Cold War decades -- disappearing here, resurfacing there.
Extending the scope of analysis in both analytical and geographical
terms, the chapters of this volume truly reach beyond the
established western and Eurocentric Cold War and post-Cold War
narratives of neutrality. The end of neutrality has been proclaimed
many times in history, yet, as this volume shows, as long as there
will be wars and conflicts, there will be formulations of
neutrality as well.
*Johanna Rainio-Niemi, University of Helsinki*
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