Neutrality in world history / Leos Müller

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: Why Neutrality? Why Neutrality? -- Arguments for Studying Neutrality -- What Is Neutrality? -- Is There a World History of Neutrality? -- Territorial and Maritime Neutrality -- Is Neutrality Possible?-- Collective Security and Neutrality -- Neutrality and International Relations Theory -- Remarks to the Reader -- 2. Birth of Maritime Neutrality: 1500-1650 -- Introduction -- The Scramble for the Oceans, 1492-1522 -- Oceanic Claims and the Asian Political Order -- Oceanic Claims and the European Political Order Hugo Grotius and Mare Liberum -- Hugo Grotius and Neutrality: The Bellum Justum Doctrine-- Neutral Flags: From Consolato to the Principle "Free Ship-Free Goods"-- Conclusion -- 3. Neutrality at Sea: 1650-1815 Introduction -- International Relations after the Peace of Westphalia-- Trade Wars and Naval Power -- Mercantilism versus Free Trade -- Asian World Order between 1600 and 1800 -- Practice of Maritime Neutrality, 1650-1720-- Great Powers, the Rise of the Atlantic World and EighteenthCentury Neutrality -- The American Revolutionary War and the League of Armed Neutrality -- The Economy of Maritime Neutrality in the American Revolutionary War -- Maritime Neutrality in the French Revolutionary Wars -- The Case of the Ship Maria: Maritime Neutrality in a Total War -- The Napoleonic Wars and the End of Maritime Neutrality, 1803-1815 -- Conclusion -- 4. The Golden Age of Neutrality: 1814-1914 -- Introduction -- The Vienna Congress and After -- International Relations and Internationalism -- Ideological Roots; Neutrality in the New World -- The Crimean War and the Alabama Claims: Codification of International Law -- International Law, Internationalism and Peace Movements, 1840-1914 -- The Hague Peace Conferences, 1899 and 1907-- Conclusion -- 5. Neutrality in Trouble: 1914-2016 -- The First World War and Neutrality-- The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the League of Nations -- Neutrality in the Second World War -- Sweden, Switzerland and Ireland -- After 1945: Neutrality and the United Nations-- The Cold War and Neutrality -- Decolonization of the World and the Non-Aligned Movement -- The End of the Cold War and Expansions of the European Union and NATO Conclusion -- 6. Concluding Remarks: Neutrality in the Past, Present and Future

Neutrality in World History provides a cogent synthesis of five hundred years of neutrality in global history. Author Leos Muller argues that neutrality and neutral states, such as Switzerland, Sweden and Belgium, have played an important historical role in implementing the free trade paradigm, shaping the laws of nations and humanitarianism, and serving as key global centres of trade and finance. Offering an intriguing alternative to dominant world history narratives, which hinge primarily on the international relations and policies of empires and global powers, Neutrality in World History provides students with a distinctive introduction to neutrality's place in world history