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This collection examines the theory, practice, and application of
state neutrality in international relations. With a focus on its
modern-day applications, the studies in this volume analyze the
global implications of permanent neutrality for Taiwan, Russia,
Ukraine, the European Union, and the United States. Exploring
permanent neutrality's role as a realist security model capable of
rivaling collective security, the authors argue that permanent
neutrality has the potential to decrease major security dilemmas on
the global stage.
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 detente policy
especially in the framework of the CSCE. After the end of the Cold
War, neutral states became active in peace-operations outside of
military alliances. The concept of neutrality has proven time and
again that it can adapt to new situations. In many ways, small
neutral states have more room to maneuver than members of alliances
or big powers. They have more acceptance and fewer geopolitical
interests. Neutrality has been declared obsolete many times in its
long and layered history., yet it has also made many comebacks in
varying forms and contexts. Neutrality in the 21st century does not
involve to staying out but engaging. In contrast to disengagement
and staying out, engaged neutrality entails active participation in
the international security policy in general and in international
peace operations in particular. Engaged neutrality means
involvement whenever possible and staying out only if necessary.
Containing the Atom, the product of three years of research by the
members of the Processes of International Negotiations (PIN)
network, is a comprehensive study of the theory and practice of
international nuclear negotiations. Well-known experts in the field
test eleven cases of international nuclear negotations covering:
strategic arms control; Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; Nuclear
Weapons Free Zones; Non-Proliferation Treaty and its Review
Conference; Nuclear Materials removed from the defense weapons
programs; Nuclear diplomacy with North Korea; Nuclear risks in the
Barents region; Nuclear safety; French-Japanese nuclear
negotiations; and the nuclear plant perspective on negotiations.
Each case study analyzes the actors, strategies, processes,
structures, and outcomes and weighs the impact of the negotiations
on security, energy, trade, and the environment.
Negotiation lies at the core of preventive diplomacy. This study is
unusual in approaching preventive diplomacy by issue areas: it
looks at the way in which preventive negotiation has been
practiced, notes its characteristics, and then suggests how lessons
can be transferred from one area to another, but only when
particular conditions warrant such a transfer. The distinguished
contributing authors treat eleven issues: boundary problems,
territorial claims, ethnic conflict, divided states, state
disintegration, cooperative disputes, trade wars, transboundary
environmental disputes, global natural disasters, global security
conflicts, and labor disputes. The editor's conclusion draws out
general themes about the nature of preventive diplomacy.
This collection examines the theory, practice, and application of
state neutrality in international relations. With a focus on its
modern-day applications, the studies in this volume analyze the
global implications of permanent neutrality for Taiwan, Russia,
Ukraine, the European Union, and the United States. Exploring
permanent neutrality's role as a realist security model capable of
rivaling collective security, the authors argue that permanent
neutrality has the potential to decrease major security dilemmas on
the global stage.
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