1st Edition
Caught in the Middle Neutrals, Neutrality and the First World War
184 Pages
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Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction, 2. Dutch Neutrality and the Value of Legal Argumentation, 3. ‘Upon the Neutral Rests the Trusteeship of International Law’, 4. Spanish Neutrality During the First World War, 5. Britain’s Global War and Argentine Neutrality, 6. Not Neutrality, 7. From Parasite to Angel, 8. Colour-blind or Clear-sighted Neutrality?, 9. The Hottest Places in Hell?, 10. The Other End of Neutrality, About the Contributors
Biography
Johan den Hertog is a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University. Samuël Kruizinga is a doctoral student at the University of Amsterdam and a research fellow at the National Maritime Museum, Amsterdam.
