Our Books

  • Neutral Europe and the Creation of the Nonproliferation Regime1958-1968

    Neutral Europe and the Creation of the Nonproliferation Regime1958-1968

    Lottaz, Iwama, and their contributors investigate the role of neutral and nonaligned European states during the negotiations for the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Focusing on the years from the Irish Resolution of 1958 until the treaty’s opening for signatures ten years later, the nine chapters written by area experts highlight the…

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  • Neutral Beyond the Cold

    Neutral Beyond the Cold

    The collapse of the Soviet Union and the wars in Yugoslavia radically changed the security environment in Europe and Central Asia. Some predictions assumed the emerging unipolarity of the liberal world order would end neutrality policies in East and West, but, as this volume shows, this was not the case. While some traditional Cold War…

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  • The Vatican and Permanent Neutrality

    The Vatican and Permanent Neutrality

    The essays in this book cover a fast-paced 150 years of Vatican diplomacy, starting from the fall of the Papal States in 1870 to the present day. They trace the transformation of the Vatican from a state like any other to an entity uniquely providing spiritual and moral sustenance in world affairs. In particular, the…

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  • Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War 1931–1945

    Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War 1931–1945

    Lottaz and Ottosson explore the intricate relationship between neutral Sweden and Imperial Japan during the latter’s 15 years of warfare in Asia and in the Pacific. While Sweden’s relationship with European Axis powers took place under the premise of existential security concerns, the case of Japan was altogether different. Japan never was a threat to…

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  • Permanent Neutrality

    Permanent Neutrality

    This book is the product of a conference held in Washington, DC on March 25, 2019. The venue, “Permanent Neutrality, a Model for Peace, Security, and Justice,” was convened to discuss the potential of permanent neutrality in the twenty-first century. Some might question if neutrality ever played a role in world politics or argue that…

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  • Notions of Neutralities

    Notions of Neutralities

    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…

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  • The European Neutrals and NATO: Non-alignment, Partnership, Membership?

    The European Neutrals and NATO: Non-alignment, Partnership, Membership?

    This book provides the first detailed comparative analysis of the unusual partnership between the main European neutral states and NATO. Neutrality and alliance membership are fundamentally incompatible, but through the vehicle of NATO’s post-Cold War partnerships the European neutral states and NATO have found a way to bridge this gap and cooperate with one another….

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  • Engaged Neutrality​: An Evolved Approach to the Cold War

    Engaged Neutrality​: An Evolved Approach to the Cold War

    The notion that neutrality is a phenomenon only relevant to the Cold War is false in many ways. The Cold War was about building blocks, neutrality about staying out of them. From 1975 until the end of the Cold War, neutral states offered mediation and good offices and fought against the stagnation of the détente…

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