Researchers

Our project members are an international team of scholars with expertise in neutrality studies and related fields. We are not organized as an institution, only as a group that regularly exchanges research. We are always delighted to find new ideas, angles, and instances of neutrality, neutralism, and nonalignment. If you would like to join the group please contact us. 

Dr. Pascal Lottaz
Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Tokyo
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• WWII Neutrality
• Neutral Diplomacy
• Good Office / Protecting Power
• Nineteenth and early twentieth century

Dr. Herbert R. Reginbogin
Catholic University of America, Washington DC
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• International Relations & Human Rights
• U.S. Foreign Policy (Europe, Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East)
• Global Energy & Security Issues
• Transatlantic Security, Global Trade & Investments
• ​European Union (EU) Politics

Professor Dr. Heinz Gärtner
University of Vienna (Austria)

• Cold War Neutrality
• Austrian Neutrality
• International Relations
• Middle East
• Iran

Dr. Johanna Rainio-Niemi
University of Helsinki

• Neutrality and non-alignment during the Cold War and beyond 
• Political History
• Histories of state- and nation-building, democracy
• Policy experts and the making of the modern welfare states in the 20th century world
• Neo-corporatist governance and the Nordic state committees' institution (komitealaitos)  

Dr. Vasileios Syros
The Medici Archive Project (Italy) & Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (UK)
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• Neutralism in History
• History of Christian, Jewish, and Islamic Political Thought
• Comparative Political Theory
• Medieval History
• Medieval Culture

Dr. Andrew Cottey 
University College Cork (Ireland)
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• Cold War History
• NATO 
• European Neutrals
• Security Studies

Dr. Eric Golson
University of Surrey

• WWII Neutrality
• International trade warfare 
• Business decision making during war 
• Twentieth century war and trade economics 
• The effectiveness of economic sanctions

Dr. Hillary Briffa
King's College London

• Small State Neutrality
• Grand Strategy
• Small State Diplomacy
• First World War Propaganda
• Soft Power and Political Communication
• Frozen Conflicts in Eastern Europe 

Our Friends

International Institute for Peace (IIP, Vienna)
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NptResearch.org
A research group based at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS, Tokyo), investigating the history and diplomacy of the nonproliferation treaty.