2017 Neutrality Conference (Madrid)

2017 Neutrality Conference

Madrid

October 27–28, 2017
Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI)

Panel 1: Neutrality from 1500 – 1900
(11:15 – 13:00)

Name	Position/Speaker's Topic
Herbert Reginbogin	Chair
Maartje Abbenhuis	Avoiding War: Neutrality's Role in Nineteenth-Century Diplomacy
Ismee Tames	Global War, Global Catastrophe: How Neutrality And Belligerency Shaped The First World War
Wim Klinkert	Between Success And Failure: Dutch Neutrality 1914 vs 1939
Leos Müller	The Forgotten History of Maritime Neutrality, 1500-1800

Panel 2: Neutrality during the Cold War
(14:15 – 16:00)

Name	Position/Speaker's Topic
Oliver Bange	Chair
Aryo Makko	The Neutrals, Neutrality and the Soviet Union during the Cold War
Peter Ruggenthaler	The Concept of Neutrality in Stalin's Foreign Policy, 1945-53
Tvrtko Jakovina	Neutral and Non-Aligned Group, The Second Cold War and the Break up of Yugoslavia
Oliver Bange	Changing Concepts and Understanding of Neutrality in the Cold War: The Neutral and Non-Aligned States (N+N)

Panel 3: Neutrality and International Law
(16:30 – 18:15)

Name	Position/Speaker's Topic
Neville Wylie	Chair
Stephen C. Neff	Competing Visions of Neutrality: Lessons from the 1930s
Yolanda Gamarra	Neutrality’s Legal Concept in a Globalized World
Onur Guven	The impact of technological innovations in weaponry and society on the neutrality of states through the lens of public international law
Annalise Higgins	Artificial neutral seas: The international status of interoceanic canals, c.1850-1920

Panel 4: Neutrality during WWII
(9:00 – 10:45)

Name	Position/Speaker's Topic
Florentino Rodao	Chair
Maria Fragkou	Contentious concepts of neutrality and social realities during the Holocaust
Jeremiah J. Fisher	Balancing Pragmatism, Law, and Morality: A Comparative Reassessment of Neutral State Policy and Behaviors in the Second World War
Bryce Evans	"The Economic Consequences of Irish Neutrality during the Second World War"
Mercedes Peñalba- Sotorrío	"Neutrality explained. Early Nazi propaganda campaigns in Spain during World War II"

Panel 5: Portuguese Neutrality
(11:15 – 13:00)

Name	Position/Speaker's Topic
Teresa Nunes	Chair
Ana Paula Pires	Portugal and the Great War: between neutrality and belligerency
António Paulo Duarte	João Chagas, Great War and Portuguese Neutrality
Frederico de Sousa Ribeiro Benvinda	Peace and War in 1880s Europe: Zófimo Consiglieri Pedroso’s views
Pedro Alexandre Rodrigues Pires	Portugal and his neutrality in the Second Boer War (1899-1902)"
Soraia Milene Marques Carvalho	League of Nations and Neutrality. The Portuguese diplomacy and the interpretations of Bettencourt Rodrigues about the groupings of nations
Teresa Nunes	War, Peace and Neutrality: José de Macedo’ thoughts on Portuguese foreign policy and European issues (1900-1916)

Panel 6: From East to West: Eurasian Experiences of Neutrality
(14:15 – 16:00)

Name	Position/Speaker's Topic
Maartje Abbenhuis	Chair
Florentino Rodao	Turkey and neutrality in the Pacific War, 1941-1945
Pascal Lottaz	The Neutrals in Wartime Japan – A comparison of Spanish, Swedish and Swiss involvement in the Pacific theater
Norberto Barreto Velazquez	Playing neutral: Indefensibility and the quest for Filipino independence
Thomas Fischer	How Much Flexibility is left in Neutrality? Theoretical vs. Political debate: A Discussion based on the Swiss experience/example

Panel 7: Neutrality after 1900
(16:30 – 18:15)

Name	Position/Speaker's Topic
Pascal Lottaz	Chair
Montserrat Huguet Santos	Enlightening Neutrality. Recent History of Nuclear Freeze Movements in the USA
Herbert Reginbogin	TBD
David Noack	Politics of Neutrality in the Post-Soviet Space: A Comparison of Concepts, Practices and Outcomes of Neutrality in Moldova, Turkmenistan and Ukraine 1990–2015
Pedro Ponte e Sousa	Neutrality in contemporary Portuguese foreign policy: alternatives, alliances and advantages"

October 27 & 28, 2017

International Conference
Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI), Madrid