A Most Useful Tool for Diplomacy and Statecraft: Neutrality and Europe in the ‘Long’ Nineteenth Century, 1815–1914

Abbenhuis, Maartje

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“…13 Neutrality presented a most useful tool for the consolidation and expansion of British industrial, imperial and commercial power, much of which moved across the global seas. 14 Thus the protection of neutral rights came to feature prominently in British diplomacy, foreign policy and naval strategies alongside their assertion of a universal international law of war to define those rights. Clearly, British naval might still defined right, but that right now gave precedence to neutrality.…”

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Protecting Neutrality at Sea in a Global Age, 1815–1914

Abbenhuis¹

2020

Economic Warfare and the Sea

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This chapter argues for the central importance of the development of the principle of neutrality in explaining the contours of the nineteenth-century age of industrial globalisation and the waging of economic warfare between 1815 and 1914. It highlights how nineteenth-century imperial expansion and industrial growth were dependent on the ability of industrial states to sustain easy access to the open seas, even in time of war. It describes how the naval powers co-ordinated and negotiated the rights and duties of neutrals and belligerents in international law in such a way as to maximise the financial, industrial and imperial advantages from doing so. It also explains how the principles of war avoidance and neutrality maintenance helped to underwrite the global power of Great Britain and the contours of the Pax Britannica.

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Protecting Neutrality at Sea in a Global Age, 1815–1914

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Economic Warfare and the Sea

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Neutrality

Abbenhuis

2018

The Encyclopedia of Diplomacy

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Neutrality is the status assigned to non‐belligerent states in time of war. Since classical times (500 BCE to 600 CE ), neutrality has featured in the international system. It is a contested and complex subject affected by a range of essential state concerns including: maritime affairs relating to shipping, trade, and the open seas; the conduct of warfare on sea, land, and in the air; the limits of territorial sovereignty; impartiality; and the conduct of states and their subjects in time of war. Over time, neutrality's applicability altered with changes in the international system and in response to the needs of governments. In the early modern period (1400–1800 CE ), neutrality featured as an important field in international law, but it was not until the turn of the nineteenth century, at the two Hague conferences of 1899 and 1907, that neutrality became formally codified. Through the twentieth and twenty‐first centuries neutrality accommodated contradictory definitions in international relations.

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Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914–1919

Kaiga

2021

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In this innovative account of the origins of the idea of the League of Nations, Sakiko Kaiga casts new light on the pro-League of Nations movement in Britain in the era of the First World War, revealing its unexpected consequences for the development of the first international organisation for peace. Combining international, social, intellectual history and international relations, she challenges two misunderstandings about the role of the movement: that their ideas about a league were utopian and that its peaceful ideal appealed to the war-weary public. Kaiga demonstrates how the original post-war plan consisted of both realistic and idealistic views of international relations, and shows how it evolved and changed in tandem with the war. She provides a comprehensive analysis of the unknown origins of the League of Nations and highlights the transformation of international society and of ideas about war prevention in the twentieth century to the present.

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A Most Useful Tool for Diplomacy and Statecraft: Neutrality and Europe in the ‘Long’ Nineteenth Century, 1815–1914

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

Protecting Neutrality at Sea in a Global Age, 1815–1914

Protecting Neutrality at Sea in a Global Age, 1815–1914

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Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914–1919

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