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.
Our research group organizes conferences, workshops, and publications for a scholarly understanding of policies that exclude alliance making. |
Our Latest Workshops
A Talk with Maartje Abbenhuis
Zoom Webinar: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 Maartje Abbenhuis is the author of "An Age of Neutrals: Great Power Politics 1815–1914." in this 90 minutes talk Maartje speaks to our neutrality seminar about the motivation for writing her book, what she discovered, how she thinks this matters for historeography and what we can take away for neutrality studies today. |
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Between Colonialism and Community:
Neutral & Nonaligend Nations in the Making of a Postcolonial Nuclear Order By Dr. Jonathan Hunt Zoom Webinar: Saturday, September 26, 2020 In collaborative with our friends at nptresearch.org, under professor Yoko Iwama at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, we are jointly organizing this webinar, in which Dr. Hunt will be presenting findings from his study on the contribution of neutral states to the nuclear order as we know it today. Read more ... |
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Our latest book
Permanent Neutrality:
A Model for Peace, Security, and Justice Edited by Herbert R. Reginbogin and Pascal Lottaz
2020, Lexington Books In this edited volume, we compiled ten chapters about the contemporary functioning of neutrality in the European and Asian context. As an outcome of the 2019 neutrality conference in Washington DC, it shines a light on the logic behind neutralist strategies in different contexts. It takes into consideration current Russian perspectives, and explains an indigenous Taiwanese neutrality movement that aims at making Taiwan an "island of peace and neutrality." Read more...
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Other books
Edited by Pascal Lottaz and Herbert R. Reginbogin
2019, Lexington Books During war and peace, neutrality as a foreign policy serves different purposes. ‘Notions of Neutralities’ portrays the different challenges that neutral strategies faced in the past, and that some states are still facing today. In twelve chapters, the authors explore the historical development of a norm which began as a maritime concept but is today a part of Eurasian security thinking. Read more...
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Edited by Heinz Gärtner
2017, Lexington Books 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 policy especially in the framework of the CSCE. Read more...
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