By Neville Wylie
This assortment offers the main finished English-language survey of the behavior of impartial and non-belligerent states through the battle for 50 years. The essays concentrate on how person impartial governments perceived foreign advancements and show the household political situations that significantly affected their reaction to the process the struggle. They as a result give you the political context that has been missed in contemporary controversies surrounding their humanitarian and fiscal actions, and provide analytical introductions to the massive volume of old writing unavailable in English.
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Fundamental to this re-evaluation is the two countries’ response to the humanitarian catastrophe that overwhelmed Europe after . While both can be charged with ‘doing too little too late’, it would appear that it was Swedish officials who, notwithstanding the efforts of individual Swiss diplomats, moved most quickly from ‘indifference’ to ‘activism’ and adopted bureaucratic procedures that promoted humanitarian aims, rather than obstructed them. In both however, the claim to ‘self preservation’ or neutrality were frequently used to justify initiatives that had, at their time of conception, little to do with any coherent, or even conscious, national strategy of deterrence or dissuasion.
From Independence to Internationalism (Dublin, ). For a comparison of the two see R. L. Bindschedler, H. R. Kurz, W. Carlgren, and S. ), Schwedisch und schweizerische Neutralit¨at im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Basle, ) and John F. L. Ross, Neutrality and International Sanctions. Sweden, Switzerland and Collective Security (Westport, ). Neville Wylie public, perceptions of the war years. The compromises, moral or otherwise, that both made during the war are now being integrated into public discussion of the period.
Politics, Society and Remembrance (Dublin, ) and Michael Kennedy and Joseph Morrison Skelly, Irish Foreign Policy, – . From Independence to Internationalism (Dublin, ). For a comparison of the two see R. L. Bindschedler, H. R. Kurz, W. Carlgren, and S. ), Schwedisch und schweizerische Neutralit¨at im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Basle, ) and John F. L. Ross, Neutrality and International Sanctions. Sweden, Switzerland and Collective Security (Westport, ). Neville Wylie public, perceptions of the war years.