Neutrality Studies

Neutrality and Nonalignment in International Relations

Neutrality Studies is an international academic research project, for the study of neutrality as a concept in international relations, sociology, international law, diplomacy, political science, security, and history.

The research group organizes conferences, workshops, and publications for a scholarly understanding of neutrality.

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“Shared Threat Perception”

In its latest issue, the “Zeitschrift für Innere Führung” of the German Bundeswehr published a call to increase the perception…
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Meet Sean Conner, the executive director of the International Peace Bureau, one of the most vocal and oldest grass-root peace organisations in the world. For over 130 years the IPB has been lobbying governments and organisations for peaceful means to resolve conflicts. Even now they are one of the few organisations that stand for a negotiated end to the war in Ukraine and have not been corrupted or coerced into submission by the pro-war narrative of the collective west. Become a member of the IPB: https://www.ipb.org/why-become-a-member/ Peace. ------------------------------------------------------ 🍁𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀🍁 Welcome to our channel dedicated to neutrality in international relations. We are committed to providing a platform for unbiased and objective analysis of global affairs, with a focus on neutrality and non-partisanship. 💌 𝗟𝗘𝗧'𝗦 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗬 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗢𝗨𝗖𝗛 💌 Twitter - https://twitter.com/PLottaz More about Neutrality Studies: neutralitystudies.com Pascal’s academic articles about neutrality studies: “The Future of Neutrality”. Geneva Center for Security Policy, Policy Briefs, no.4, 2023. ISBN: 978-2-88947-407-3. “Dual-Neutrality for the Koreas: A Two-Pronged Approach toward Reunification.” Defense & Security Analysis, 2022, http://doi.org/10.1080/14751798.2022.2085109 “The Politics and Diplomacy of Neutrality.” Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations, New York: Oxford University Press, 2022, http://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199743292-0307 “Neutrality Studies.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, New York: Oxford University Press, 2022, http://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.680). “Going East: Switzerland’s Early Consular Diplomacy toward East and Southeast Asia.” Traverse: Zeitschrift für Geschichte 27 no. 1, 2020, 23–34, http://doi.org/10.5169/seals-881084 “Violent Conflicts and Neutral Legations: A Case Study of the Spanish and Swiss Legations in Wartime Japan.” New Global Studies 11, no.2, 20 17. 85–100, http://doi.org/10.1515/ngs-2017-0018 Pascal’s books about neutrality studies: Lottaz Pascal, and Ingemar Ottosson. Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War 1931–1945. London: Routledge, 2021. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003182061/sweden-japan-long-second-world-war-pascal-lottaz-ingemar-ottosson Lottaz Pascal, Heinz Gärtner, and Herbert Reginbogin, eds. Neutral Beyond the Cold: Neutral States and the Post-Cold War International System. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666901665/Neutral-Beyond-the-Cold-Neutral-States-and-the-Post-Cold-War-International-System Reginbogin, Herbert, and Pascal Lottaz, eds. Permanent Neutrality: A Model for Peace, Security, and Justice. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793610287/Permanent-Neutrality-A-Model-for-Peace-Security-and-Justice Lottaz Pascal, and Herbert Reginbogin, eds. Notions of Neutralities. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498582261/Notions-of-Neutralities 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗗 𝗨𝗦 𝗔𝗧🔍 https://neutralitystudies.com/ 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎𝐒 ➟Showdown Over NATO Accession: Turkey is blocking Sweden | Interview with Naman Habtom-Desta 🔗https://youtu.be/BrZrvx0du-M ➟It's a Bumpy Road to Peace in Ethiopia | Moges Zewdu Teshome 🔗https://youtu.be/Eft4VcXCyas ➟Nigeria is Neutral | Taking Sides Makes The Conflict In Ukraine Only Worse | Dr. Efem Ubi 🔗https://youtu.be/ACjTjya081E Thank you for Watching, The International Peace Bureau Has Seen It All Standing For Dialogue Also In Ukraine | Sean Conner #PeaceInUkraine #DialogueForPeace #SeanConner #InternationalPeaceBureau #ConflictResolution 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀: international peace bureau ukraine sean conner peace advocacy peace dialogue initiatives conflict resolution in ukraine international diplomacy efforts role of international peace bureau sean conner's peace work ukraine peace negotiations global peace organizations peacebuilding in ukraine
The International Peace Bureau Has Seen It All Standing For Dialogue Also In Ukraine | Sean Conner
If legacy media lies, that's ok, but if you so much as send a text message to someone else that contains something the government deems untrue, you will be punished hard. Welcome to 2023 and the UK's brand new "Online Safety Act". Its first victims: Russell Brand and Rumble. This is really bad and its only gonna get worse. Graham Majin did the work of reading through the UK's and the EUs versions of these acts and explains just why this is absolutely outrageous. The right to say something that might not be true is reserved for "respectable" media (you know, the media that said Saddam had Weapons of Mass Destruction or that Russiagate was a thing), while anyone else is liable for saying something untrue. It's crazy.
Orwellian Online Censorship Laws Come Into Effect | With Dr. Graham Majin
There is a very urgent development we really need to talk about. Many of you might be aware of the Russel Brand case. The famous British TV and Film personality is being accused of sexual misconduct that has allegedly taken place roughly a decade ago. The allegations have been brought forward publicly on TV and although there is no legal case against the YouTube superstar with over 6 million followers, YouTube has decided to demonetise him. What’s worse, British parliamentarians sent letters to other online platforms pressuring them to follow in YouTubes footsteps and are now starting to heavily pressure Rumble, a platform that has rejected the demands of punishing someone without trial and for something unrelated he does on the platform. The platform has now already been threatened with legal action against its executives in the UK, allegedly running afoul of the brand now “Online Safety Bill”. This is really bad. Joining me to discuss the case and what the new law means to journalism is Dr. Graham Majin, a senior lecturer in Documentary Journalism at Bournemouth University with more than 20 years experience working in TV news, factual filmmaking and media production.
Russell Brand Punished Before Tried. The Digital Death Of The Justice System | With Graham Majin
The following is a documentary shot in 2011 that had been lost in the archives of legacy media, having aired only once on PBS in 2012. Common wisdom holds that the United States outcompeted the Soviet Union but didn‘t meddle in its internal political affairs to break it up. In August 1991 president Bush Sr. even gave a talk to The Ukrainian Parliament, warning them not not secede. But the United States is not a unitary actor. It‘s think tanks, oligarchs and intelligence units have a life of their own. Thanks to David C. Speedy and the Carnegie Ethics Studio, the following program details the interactions of US diplomacy and the think tank world in what would become the end of the Soviet Union, the reign of Boris Yeltsin, and finally, the emergence of Vladimir Putin, of Russia. With special Thanks to : - David C. Speedy - The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affaris - The Carnegie Ethics Studio Introduction Music Attribution: Opus One by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://audionautix.com/
Lost Documentary Proofs US Involvement In USSR Collapse: „Playing for Power“ by David C Speedie
With a good moral mass-hysteria, you can do pretty much anything: from eliminating political rivals under the espionage act of WWI or with McCarthyism in the Cold War, to invading Iraq because of imaginary "WMDs". You can justify support for a relentless trench-war in Europe and again discredit political enemies as "Putin puppets" while simultaniously arguing against the integrity of one election (2016) due to "Russiagate" while upholding the next one (2020) and tarnishing any dissent again as the machinations of evil. It is truly fantastic. Join me talk through this issue with Dr. Christopher Mott who recently wrote a brilliant piece about just that issue: https://www.agonmag.com/p/cycles-of-mania-and-the-cancelling Dr. Christopher Mott, an IR scholar at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy. ------------------------------------------------------ Pascal’s academic articles about neutrality studies: “In Defense of Neutrals: Why They’re More Than Fence Sitter” Foreign Policy, June 6, 2023. https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/06/06/ukraine-russia-war-neutrality-nonalignment/ “The Future of Neutrality”. Geneva Center for Security Policy, Policy Briefs, no.4, 2023. ISBN: 978-2-88947-407-3. “Dual-Neutrality for the Koreas: A Two-Pronged Approach toward Reunification.” Defense & Security Analysis, 2022, http://doi.org/10.1080/14751798.2022.2085109 “The Politics and Diplomacy of Neutrality.” Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations, New York: Oxford University Press, 2022, http://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199743292-0307 “Neutrality Studies.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, New York: Oxford University Press, 2022, http://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.680). “Going East: Switzerland’s Early Consular Diplomacy toward East and Southeast Asia.” Traverse: Zeitschrift für Geschichte 27 no. 1, 2020, 23–34, http://doi.org/10.5169/seals-881084 “Violent Conflicts and Neutral Legations: A Case Study of the Spanish and Swiss Legations in Wartime Japan.” New Global Studies 11, no.2, 20 17. 85–100, http://doi.org/10.1515/ngs-2017-0018 Pascal’s books about neutrality studies: Lottaz Pascal, and Ingemar Ottosson. Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War 1931–1945. London: Routledge, 2021. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003182061/sweden-japan-long-second-world-war-pascal-lottaz-ingemar-ottosson Lottaz Pascal, Heinz Gärtner, and Herbert Reginbogin, eds. Neutral Beyond the Cold: Neutral States and the Post-Cold War International System. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666901665/Neutral-Beyond-the-Cold-Neutral-States-and-the-Post-Cold-War-International-System Reginbogin, Herbert, and Pascal Lottaz, eds. Permanent Neutrality: A Model for Peace, Security, and Justice. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793610287/Permanent-Neutrality-A-Model-for-Peace-Security-and-Justice Lottaz Pascal, and Herbert Reginbogin, eds. Notions of Neutralities. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498582261/Notions-of-Neutralities
Moral Mass-hysteria Happens Regularly And On Purpose. From Russiagate to Baloongate | Dr. Chris Mott
The 2008 Russo-Georgian War has long been overshadowed by the warfare in Ukraine. However, until today it offers one of the most important and most valuable case studies for everything that's wrong with the relationship between the West, Russia, and then in-between lands of the former Soviet Union. In this talk, Giorgi Lasha Kasradze discusses all the lessons we haven't learned, or simply forgot in relation to Georgia and why it is that this small nation in South Caucasus managed to escape the fate of Ukraine. Spoiler alert: it has something to do with not being rational. Giorgi Lasha Kasradze is originally from Georgia (the country in Eastern Europe, not the US state). He is an international relations analyst and expert on the former Soviet Union, covering mainly the South Caucasus and the Black Sea region.  He works in the US as a liaison officer for the Sokhumi State University, which itself used to be part of Abkhazia’s state university, but since the 1993 Abkhazia War has been based in Tiblisi, the capital of Georgia. ------------------------------------------------------ 🍁𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀🍁 Welcome to our channel dedicated to neutrality in international relations. We are committed to providing a platform for unbiased and objective analysis of global affairs, with a focus on neutrality and non-partisanship. 💌 𝗟𝗘𝗧'𝗦 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗬 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗢𝗨𝗖𝗛 💌 Twitter - https://twitter.com/PLottaz More about Neutrality Studies: neutralitystudies.com Pascal’s academic articles about neutrality studies: “The Future of Neutrality”. Geneva Center for Security Policy, Policy Briefs, no.4, 2023. ISBN: 978-2-88947-407-3. “Dual-Neutrality for the Koreas: A Two-Pronged Approach toward Reunification.” Defense & Security Analysis, 2022, http://doi.org/10.1080/14751798.2022.2085109 “The Politics and Diplomacy of Neutrality.” Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations, New York: Oxford University Press, 2022, http://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199743292-0307 “Neutrality Studies.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, New York: Oxford University Press, 2022, http://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.680). “Going East: Switzerland’s Early Consular Diplomacy toward East and Southeast Asia.” Traverse: Zeitschrift für Geschichte 27 no. 1, 2020, 23–34, http://doi.org/10.5169/seals-881084 “Violent Conflicts and Neutral Legations: A Case Study of the Spanish and Swiss Legations in Wartime Japan.” New Global Studies 11, no.2, 20 17. 85–100, http://doi.org/10.1515/ngs-2017-0018 Pascal’s books about neutrality studies: Lottaz Pascal, and Ingemar Ottosson. Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War 1931–1945. London: Routledge, 2021. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003182061/sweden-japan-long-second-world-war-pascal-lottaz-ingemar-ottosson Lottaz Pascal, Heinz Gärtner, and Herbert Reginbogin, eds. Neutral Beyond the Cold: Neutral States and the Post-Cold War International System. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666901665/Neutral-Beyond-the-Cold-Neutral-States-and-the-Post-Cold-War-International-System Reginbogin, Herbert, and Pascal Lottaz, eds. Permanent Neutrality: A Model for Peace, Security, and Justice. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793610287/Permanent-Neutrality-A-Model-for-Peace-Security-and-Justice Lottaz Pascal, and Herbert Reginbogin, eds. Notions of Neutralities. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498582261/Notions-of-Neutralities 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗗 𝗨𝗦 𝗔𝗧🔍 https://neutralitystudies.com/ 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎𝐒 ➟Showdown Over NATO Accession: Turkey is blocking Sweden | Interview with Naman Habtom-Desta 🔗https://youtu.be/BrZrvx0du-M ➟It's a Bumpy Road to Peace in Ethiopia | Moges Zewdu Teshome 🔗https://youtu.be/Eft4VcXCyas ➟Nigeria is Neutral | Taking Sides Makes The Conflict In Ukraine Only Worse | Dr. Efem Ubi 🔗https://youtu.be/ACjTjya081E Thank you for Watching, Georgia Narrowly Escaped West Induced Suicide How Did It Do That | Giorgi Lasha Kasradze #GeorgiaResilience #WestInducedCrisis #GiorgiLashaKasradze #GeopoliticalChallenges #EscapingTheEdge 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀: georgia resilience west induced crisis giorgi lasha kasradze geopolitical challenges escaping the edge
Georgia Narrowly Escaped West Induced Suicide How Did It Do That | Giorgi Lasha Kasradze
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