The Rights And Duties Of Neutrals

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ISBN-13: 978-1-929446-06-3 / ISBN-10: 1-929446-06-3

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Book Overview

List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Table of treaties

Introduction

Part I: The foundations 1200 – 1800

1 Medieval roots

• The just-war era
• 'Rights' of neutrals
• Duties of neutrals
• Rights of belligerents
• Some practical problems

2 The age of parchment

• A time of liberality
• Neutral assertiveness
• Trouble beckoning

3 In search of first principles

• The three schools
• The pedants in contention

Part II: Innovation and consolidation 1750 – 1914

4 The invention of total war

• Belligerent innovations
• Neutrals fight back
• Economic warfare – with neutrals in the middle

5 Consensus approached

• Doctrinal clashes
• Practical adjustments
• Towards the Declaration of Paris
• Neutrality and peace

6 Consensus ruptured

• Holes in the Declaration of Paris
• New tools for total war
• Exploiting sovereign rights
• Fearing for the future

7 Stating the rules

• The Hague Conventions of 1907
• The Declaration of London
• A revolt in Britain

Part III: New challenges 1914 – 2000

8 A great war and new departure

• The Allies: the art of 'long-distance blockade
• The Germans: the art of submarine warfare
• Post-mortem

9 The collective-security era

• Abolishing neutrality
• Codification redux
• The challenge of the 'new neutrality'
• Neutral solidarity
• Total war returns

10 Modern times

• The just-war outlook returns
• Neutrality survives – again
• Belligerents' rights in action
• Sovereign rights in action
• Neutrals resurgent

Conclusion
Select bibliography
Table of cases
Index