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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789630403321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Aksant, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-05075-7

9786613050755

90-485-1471-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 175 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Studies of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation ; ; 3

Disciplina

940.3

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918

World War, 1914-1918 - Diplomatic history

Neutrality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction / Hertog, Johan den / Kruizinga, Samuël -- 2. Dutch Neutrality and the Value of Legal Argumentation / Hertog, Johan den -- 3. 'Upon the Neutral Rests the Trusteeship of International Law' / Coates, Benjamin -- 4. Spanish Neutrality During the First World War / Ponce, Javier -- 5. Britain's Global War and Argentine Neutrality / Dehne, Philip -- 6. Not Neutrality / Kruizinga, Samuël -- 7. From Parasite to Angel / Sturfelt, Lina -- 8. Colour-blind or Clear-sighted Neutrality? / Bendtsen, Bjarne S. -- 9. The Hottest Places in Hell? / Clerc, Louis -- 10. The Other End of Neutrality / Gram-Skjoldager, Karen -- About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

During World War I, aggressive countries infringed on the rights and privileges of neutral nations such as the Netherlands and Switzerland as they had been defined in prior international agreements. The essays in this critical collection provide comparisons of the history of neutrality in several countries involved in World War I and analyze the concept of neutrality from multiple perspectives: political, economic, cultural, and legal.