Neutrality Studies
Our academic book series with Bloomsbury Academic: a dedicated home for research on neutrality across history, international law and global politics.
A shared research agenda, across disciplines.
Neutrality deserves an academic home of its own. Our book series with Bloomsbury Academic brings together scholarship that has too often been scattered across separate disciplines, placing neutrality at the centre of a shared research agenda.
The series connects history, international law and political analysis to examine how neutrality works, why it changes, and what it makes possible. Its scope reaches beyond European diplomacy to different regions and intellectual traditions, exploring neutrality in relation to sovereignty, war, empire and international cooperation.
Series editors
Pascal Lottaz, Eric Golson, Hillary Briffa, Naman Karl-Thomas Habtom, Anuradha Chenoy
Books in the series
Reframing Neutrality
Debates, Concepts and Intellectual Traditions
Edited by Pascal Lottaz, Eric Golson, Hillary Briffa and Naman Karl-Thomas Habtom
Scheduled publication: 18 February 2027. Hardback ISBN 9781350628496.
How should we understand neutrality beyond inherited Cold War categories and a predominantly European legal tradition? This interdisciplinary volume approaches that question through philosophy, international law, economics and international relations.
Its contributions range from classical Indian thought and neutrality in cyberspace to nuclear diplomacy, small-state agency and the conduct of non-state actors. Together, they consider neutrality as a changing political practice: a way to maintain autonomy, navigate rivalries and contribute to peace in an increasingly fragmented international order.
Open-access ebook planned — see publisher for availability.
View Reframing Neutrality at BloomsburyNeutral Actors in History
Global Case Studies from the Long Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Edited by Hillary Briffa, Pascal Lottaz, Eric Golson and Naman Karl-Thomas Habtom
Scheduled publication: 18 February 2027. Hardback ISBN 9781350628670.
Neutrality has been practised by actors with very different histories, resources and political ambitions. This collection follows those experiences across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, bringing statecraft, legal choices and political identity into conversation.
Case studies explore the Americas, Europe and Asia, including Hawai‘i, Luxembourg, Ireland, Indonesia, Yugoslavia and Switzerland. They show how neutral and non-aligned actors responded to imperial pressures, occupation, war and changing alliances—and how their choices can inform today's debates about independence and international order.
Open-access ebook planned — see publisher for availability.
View Neutral Actors in History at BloomsburyBritish Propaganda in Neutral Turkey
Pursuing a Reluctant Ally in the Second World War
By Edward Corse
Scheduled publication: 27 May 2027. Hardback ISBN 9781350643918.
Neutral Turkey occupied a strategically important position between theatres of the Second World War. Edward Corse examines Britain's attempts to shape Turkish opinion and policy while Germany pursued competing objectives in the same country.
The study follows cultural activity, magazines, broadcasting and rumours to ask how propaganda operated, how British methods changed, and what influence these efforts actually achieved. It highlights both the limits of wartime persuasion and the active part a neutral state could play in a wider conflict.
Hardback and ebook editions — see publisher for availability.
View British Propaganda in Neutral Turkey at Bloomsbury