The American Conception of Neutrality After 1941; Update and Revised

by Jürg Martin Gabriel

• ISBN13: 9780333762561
• ISBN10: 0333762568
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2002-10-04
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This is a study of global political history since 1941 with a particular emphasis on America's attitude to neutrality. This important revised and updated edition contains three entirely new chapters including an insightful new introduction and conclusion, drawing on newly released documentation, most importantly on Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War. Like the previous edition, this book looks at world affairs through the eyes of neutrality. It covers America's contribution to the decline of world-neutrality, the major economic and military events surrounding the Second World War, the founding of NATO and the problems of neutralism during the Vietnam War. This new edition, however, goes one step further to confirm, with fresh new evidence, the central thesis of the original volume.

Author Biography

Jnrg Martin Gabriel is Professor of International Relations, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich.

Table of Contents

Neutrality Before 1941

Second World War, 1941-1945

United Nations, 1945-1946

UN Law v. Geneva Law, 1946-1949

Alliance Building, 1948-1949

Cold War Economic Warfare, 1949-1951

Korean War, 1950-1953

Geneva Conference, 1954

Germany and Austria, 1953-1955

The Legal Perspective, 1957