Heinz Gärtner is professor and lecturer in the department of political science at the University of Vienna and Danube University.Pascal Lottaz is adjunct professor at Temple University Japan and adjunct researcher at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study.Herbert Reginbogin is professor of international relations and international law and currently fellow at The Catholic University of America.

• Part I: Re-imagining Neutrality in the Post-Cold WarChapter 1: Neutrality and Geopolitics: Responding to Change by Laurent GoetschelChapter 2: Neutrality and Small States: A Strategic Approach by Hillary BriffaChapter 3: Neutrality and Neutralization: A Geopolitical Statecraft by Herbert ReginboginChapter 4: Neutrality and Peacemaking: A Compass for Austrian Peace Policy by Thomas RoithnerChapter 5: Neutrality and Diplomacy: Voices of Diplomats by Eva Nowotny and Peter JankowitschChapter 6: Neutrality in International Organizations I: The United Nations by Angela KaneChapter 7: Neutrality in International Organizations II: ASEAN by Charis Si En TayPart II: The New Neutrals in the Post-Communist SpaceChapter 8: Belarus: Between Alliance and Neutralism by Yauheni Preiherman and Pascal LottazChapter 9: Moldova: The Whims of Neutrality Politics by David X. NoackChapter 10: Ukraine: Overcoming Geopolitical Insecurity by Heinz Gärtner and Maya JanikChapter 11: Georgia: Neutrality as an Alter

The concept of neutrality in the international system dates back more than 350 years, but it gained particular salience after 1945, when Europe and the Asia-Pacific region were divided between rival Cold War blocs led by the United States and the Soviet Union. The starkness of the Cold War divide spurred some countries to seek permanent neutrality, avoiding affiliation with either bloc. Outside Europe, as decolonization led to the emergence of dozens of new states, many joined what became the Nonaligned Movement, a grouping that eventually encompassed 120 countries around the world. The end of the Cold War division of Europe in 1989-1991 prompted speculation that neutrality in the post-Cold War world had lost its raison d'être. This book shows that such claims were incorrect. Although the meaning of neutrality has changed in the post-Cold War era, the concept retains much of its cachet. The essays gathered here explain why many countries nowadays continue to pursue some variation of neutrality. Even readers who might question some of the arguments in the book will find it an exceptionally valuable and stimulating collection of ideas about the multiple forms of neutrality in the post-Cold War international system.