1st Edition

Neutrality in International Law From the Sixteenth Century to 1945

By Kentaro Wani Copyright 2017
244 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Neutrality is a legal relationship between a belligerent State and a State not participating in a war, namely a neutral State. The law of neutrality is a body of rules and principles that regulates the legal relations of neutrality. The law of neutrality obliges neutral States to treat all belligerent States impartially and to abstain from providing military and other assistance to belligerents.... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Chapter 1 Origins of the Concept of Neutrality: Neutrality from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

3. Chapter 2 The Law of Neutrality as an Institution of General International Law: 1793-1918

4. Chapter 3 The Development of the Law of Neutrality in the period 1919-45

5. Conclusion

Biography

Kentaro Wani is Associate Professor at the Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University, Japan