Edited by Pascal Lottaz, Heinz Gärtner, and Herbert R. Reginbogin

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The collapse of the Soviet Union and the wars in Yugoslavia radically changed the security environment in Europe and Central Asia. Some predictions assumed the emerging unipolarity of the liberal world order would end neutrality policies in East and West, but, as this volume shows, this was not the case. While some traditional Cold War neutrals like Sweden and Finland have been edging closer to security alignment with western institutions, there are others like Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, and Malta that remained committed to their traditional nonaligned foreign policy approaches. More importantly, there are areas of Eurasia that developed new forms of neutrality policies, most of them only noticed on the margins of academic discourse. This is the first book to systematically explore this “new neutralism” of the Post-Cold War. In part one, the book analyzes contemporary neutrality discourse on several levels like international organizations (UN, ASEAN), diplomacy, and academic theory. Part two discusses neutrality-related policy developments in Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Serbia, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Mongolia. Together, the 15 chapters show how on this vast, connected landmass references to neutrality have remained a staple of international politics.

Part I: Re-imagining Neutrality in the Post-Cold War
Chapter 1: Neutrality and Geopolitics: Responding to Change (Laurent Goetschel)
Chapter 2: Neutrality and Small States: A Strategic Approach (Hillary Briffa)
Chapter 3: Neutrality and Neutralization: A Geopolitical Statecraft (Herbert Reginbogin)
Chapter 4: Neutrality and Peacemaking: A Compass for Austrian Peace Policy (Thomas Roithner)
Chapter 5: Neutrality and Diplomacy: Voices of Diplomats (Eva Nowotny and Peter Jankowitsch)
Chapter 6: Neutrality in International Organizations I: The United Nations (Angela Kane)
Chapter 7: Neutrality in International Organizations II: ASEAN (Charis Si En Tay)

Part II: The New Neutrals in the Post-Communist Space
Chapter 8: Belarus: Between Alliance and Neutralism (Yauheni Preiherman and Pascal Lottaz)
Chapter 9: Moldova: The Whims of Neutrality Politics (David X. Noack)
Chapter 10: Ukraine: Overcoming Geopolitical Insecurity (Heinz Gärtner and Maya Janik)
Chapter 11: Georgia: Neutrality as an Alternative to the Atlantic Course? (Heinz Gärtner and Maya Janik)
Chapter 12: Serbia: Origins and Impacts of the Military Neutrality Policy (Keiichi Kubo)
Chapter 13: Turkmenistan: The Eccentric Neutral (Luca Anceschi)
Chapter 14: Afghanistan: A Path toward Stability with Permanent Neutrality? (Nasir A. Andisha)
Chapter 15: Mongolia: Neutrality, a Nice Horse (Pascal Lottaz and Tumurjin Ganbaatar=