The American Conception of Neutrality After 1941

The American Conception of Neutrality After 1941 by Jürg Martin Gabriel, 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, amongst other issues, 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, e.g. the end of the Cold War and the Unification of Germany, the central thesis of the original volume. American foreign policy is an important topic of continuing interest.

Autorentext
JÜRG MARTIN GABRIEL is Professor of Political Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland. He is the author of several books including Worldviews and Theories of International Relations.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 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, 1950-1053 Geneva Conference, 1954 Germany and Austria, 1953-1955 The Legal Perspective, 1957 Southeast Asia, 1960-1970 Summary and Conclusion Notes and References Bibliography Index