Reframing Neutrality

Pascal Lottaz is a Swiss academic at Kyoto University, Japan, where he researches neutral actors in international relations. He heads the research network neutralitystudies.com, which organizes regular academic conferences and publications. He has published four edited volumes and a monograph on neutrality. He is also the host of the popular YouTube Channel “Neutrality Studies”.Eric Golson is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Surrey, UK. As an economist with expertise in economic warfare, trade, finance, business decision making and international political economy, he has travelled the world exploring complex economic warfare issues for governments and businesses. He has co-authored three books on historical cases of economic warfare, small states and neutrality.Hillary Briffa is a Senior Lecturer in National Security Studies and Assistant Director for the Centre for Defence Studies at King’s College London, UK. She has published extensively on small state neutrality, particularly the neutrality of small European states such as Malta.Naman Karl-Thomas Habtom has worked as a research assistant specialising in security policy, a foreign affairs writer, as an editor, guest researcher at the Swedish Defence University, Université Libre de Bruxelle, and Stockholm University, and the University of Luxembourg. His research focuses on contemporary military and diplomatic history.

• List of figures and tables Foreword by Dr. Alex Sceberras Trigona, Former Foreign Minister of Malta Preface by the Editors Chapter 1: Introduction (Pascal Lottaz & Eric Golson) Section 1: Theory Chapter 2: Philosophers and the Concept of Neutrality (David Uzal) Chapter 3: Revisiting Kautilya’s Arthasastra: Classical Indian Perspectives on Neutrality (Sumit Kumar Pathak) Chapter 4: The Survival of the Law of Neutrality (Amela Škiljan) Chapter 5: The Laws of Neutrality and the Future of Due Diligence in Cyberspace (Jan Martin Lemnitzer) Section 2: Practice of State Actors Chapter 6: Neutrality and Power Transition Theory: A Systemic Perspective on Austria and Serbia (Eray Mutlu) Chapter 7: Economic Warfare and Neutrality After the Invasion of Crimea (Eric Golson) Chapter 8: EU Neutral States and the TPNW: Reconciling Alignment and the Ban (Valentina Cassar)Chapter 9: Swiss Neutrality After the Cold War (Jean-Daniel Ruch) Section 3: Practice of Non-State Actors Chapter 10: Medieval Neutrality (Alexander Mallett) Chapter 11: Mediating Conflict in Kurdish Frontiers: A Case of Bottom-Up Neutrality in Contested Spaces (Mostafa Khalili) Chapter 12: International Sporting Federations as Neutral Actors: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine as a Test Case (Michal Kobierecki & Geoffrey Allen Pigman) Chapter 13: Firefighter Olympics and the Role of Central European Neutral and Non-Aligned Countries after the Second World War(Ana Kladnik) Epilogue