Neutrality as a policy choice for small/weak democracies : : learning from the Belgian experience / / by Michael F. Palo.

In Neutrality as a Policy Choice for Small/Weak Democracies: Learning from the Belgian Experience, Michael F. Palo has three main objectives. First, he employs a counterfactual approach to examine the hypothesis that had permanent neutrality not been imposed on Belgium in 1839, it would have pursued...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden Boston : : Brill | Nijhoff,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (598 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Maps
  • Introduction: Objectives and Methodology
  • A Counterfactual Analysis of the Regime of Permanent Neutrality, 1839–1914
  • An Integrated Level Analysis of Belgian Foreign and Security Policies, 1914–1936
  • An Integrated Level Analysis of the Regime of Voluntary Neutrality, October 1936 and May 1940
  • An Integrated Level Analysis of the Impact of World War ii on Belgian Foreign Policy and Internal Politics
  • Small Democratic States in the International System
  • Conclusions
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index.