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Neutrality in War

In: Economic History of Warfare and State Formation

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  • Eric Golson

    (University of Surrey
    University of London)

Abstract

Neutrality has long been seen as impartiality in war and is codified as such in The Hague and Geneva Conventions. This chapter investigates the activities of three neutral states in the Second World War and determines, on a purely economic basis, that these countries actually employed realist principles to ensure their survival. Neutrals maintain their independence by offering economic concessions to the belligerents to make up for their relative military weakness. Despite their different starting places, governments, and threats against them, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland provided similar types of political and economic concessions to the belligerents.

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  • Eric Golson, 2016. "Neutrality in War," Studies in Economic History, in: Jari Eloranta & Eric Golson & Andrei Markevich & Nikolaus Wolf (ed.), Economic History of Warfare and State Formation, pages 259-278, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:stechp:978-981-10-1605-9_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-1605-9_11
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