Neutrality in World History / Leos Müller.

Table of Contents;

List of Tables;

Acknowledgements;

Chapter 1: Introduction: 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; Further Reading;

Chapter 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 OrderHugo Grotius and Mare Liberum; Hugo Grotius and Neutrality: The Bellum Justum Doctrine; Neutral Flags: From Consolato to the Principle "Free Ship-Free Goods"; Conclusion; Further Reading;

Chapter 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 NeutralityThe 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; Further Reading;

Chapter 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 LawInternational Law, Internationalism and Peace Movements, 1840-1914; The Hague Peace Conferences, 1899 and 1907; Conclusion; Further Reading;

Chapter 5: Neutrality in Trouble: 1914–2016 Concluding 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 NATOConclusion; Further Reading;

6 Concluding Remarks: Neutrality in the Past, Present and Future