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Abbenhuis, M. M. - ‘Too Good to be True?’ European Hopes for Neutrality before 1914

Keywords:

Congress of Vienna | European | neutrality | state behaviour

ISFWWS-Keywords:

Neutral States | Origins and Pre-war | Politics | Scandinavia

Abstract:

This chapter argues that judging neutrality as a naïve and fl awed foreign policy option in the context of the two world wars misses the point about the relevance of neutrality in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe. Within the international system created and sustained by the …