Caught in the middle : neutrals, neutrality, and the First World War / Johan den Hartog & Samuël Kruizinga (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hertog, Johan den, 1977-

Kruizinga, Samuël.

Series:

Studies of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation ; 3.

Studies of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918.

Neutrality.

World War, 1914-1918--Diplomatic history.

Diplomatic history.

Physical Description:

vii, 175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Aksant, 2011.

Summary:

During the First World War, belligerents infringed on the rights and duties of neutrals, as these had been codified in international agreements. Both the Allies and the Central Powers pressured the neutrals to modify their policies to favour them over their adversaries. During the four and-a-half years the war lasted, this pressure mounted until the neutrals were left with very little room to manoeuvre.

More than fifty years ago, Nils Ørvik stated that this disregard for international law, combined with the relative weakness of the European neutrals, spelled the end of traditional political neutrality. Caught in the Middle discusses this thesis based on new research from Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The result is the first comparative study in English on First World War neutrality.

The contributors cover not only several countries involved, but also multiple aspects of the concept of neutrality: political, economic, cultural and legal. They reassess the notion of neutrality and the role of neutrals during the First World War, making this collection of great value to all scholars of both neutrality, the history of individual neutral countries, and of the war itself. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction / Johan den Hertog Hertog, Johan den, Samuël Kruizinga Kruizinga, Samuël 1

Chapter 2 Dutch Neutrality and the Value of Legal Argumentation / Johan den Hertog Hertog, Johan den 15

Chapter 3 'Upon the Neutral Rests the Trusteeship of International Law' - Legal advisers and American unneutrality / Benjamin Coates Coates, Benjamin 35

Chapter 4 Spanish Neutrality During the First World War / Javier Ponce Ponce, Javier 53

Chapter 5 Britain's Global War and Argentine Neutrality / Philip Dehne Dehne, Philip 67

Chapter 6 NOT Neutrality - The Dutch government, the Netherlands Oversea Trust Company, and the Entente blockade of Germany, 1914-1918 / Samuël Kruizinga Kruizinga, Samuël 85

Chapter 7 From Parasite to Angel - Narratives of neutrality in the Swedish popular press during the First World War / Lina Sturfelt Sturfelt, Lina 105

Chapter 8 Colour-blind or Clear-sighted Neutrality? - Georg Brandes and the First World War / Bjarne S. Bendtsen Bendtsen, Bjarne S. 121

Chapter 9 The Hottest Places in Hell? - Finnish and Nordic neutrality from the perspective of French foreign policy, 1900-1940 / Louis Clerc Clerc, Louis 139

Chapter 10 The Other End of Neutrality - The First World War, the League of Nations, and Danish neutrality / Karen Gram-Skjoldager Gram-Skjoldager, Karen 155.

Notes:

Collection of essays based on papers presented at the conference 'The First World War and the end of neutrality?', held at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) in Amsterdam on 5-6 March 2009.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789052603704

9052603707

OCLC:

549149965

Publisher Number:

99944590720

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