Neutrality and Neutralism in the Global Cold War: The Non-aligned Movement in the East-west Conflict

This book sheds new light on the foreign policies, roles, and positions of neutral states and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in the global Cold War.

The volume places the neutral states and the NAM in the context of the Cold War and demonstrates the links between the East, the West, and the so-called Third World. In doing so, this collection provides readers an alternative way of exploring the evolution and impact of the Cold War on North-South connections that challenges traditional notions of the post-1945 history of international relations. The various contributions are framed against the backdrop of the evolution of the Cold War international system and the decolonization process in the Southern hemisphere. By juxtaposing the policies of European neutrals and countries of the NAM, this book offers new perspectives on the evolution of the Cold War. With the links between these two groups of countries receiving very little attention in Cold War scholarship, the volume thus offers a window into a hitherto neglected perspective on the Cold War. Via a series of case studies, the chapters here present new viewpoints on the evolution of the global Cold War through the exploration of the ensuing internal and (mainly) external policy choices of these nations.

This book will be of much interest to students of Cold War Studies, international history, foreign policy, security studies and IR in general.

Sandra Bott is Research Associate at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Jussi M. Hanhimäki is Professor of International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He is the author of numerous books, including most recently The Rise and Fall of Détente: American Foreign Policy and the Transformation of the Cold War (2013).

Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl is Assistant Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Marco Wyss is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Chichester, Senior Researcher at the University of Lausanne, and Scientific Editor of the International Bibliography of Military History.