Neutralism (international politics)

Neutralism (adj. Neutralistisch ), also positive neutralism , is the principal Bündnislosigkeit a state. It is therefore also referred to as national neutralism.

Different countries treat neutralism differently. Because of the suffix -ism and because of fundamental criticism of the lack of alliances, the term is often used polemically. During the Cold War , it was understood to mean the fundamental freedom of the movement of non-aligned states . In the 1930s it was used to designate the foreign policy doctrine of the USA ( doctrinal neutralism ).

See also

• Neutrality (international politics)
• Bandung Conference

• Monroe Doctrine

literature

• Albrecht Behmel : The Central European Debate in the Federal Republic of Germany: Between Peace Movement, Cultural Identity and the German Question. Ibidem-Verlag, Hannover 2011.
• Ludmilla Lobova: The Russian conception of neutralism in the emerging European security system . In: Security Policy in the CIS and the Baltic States 1/2001 (March 2001), ISBN 3-901328-53-X (pdf, 130 kB)
• Alexander Gallus : The neutralists: advocates of a united Germany between East and West, 1945–1990 (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties, 127). Droste, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-7700-5233-1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Duden (accessed on May 14, 2010)
2. ↑ Wissen.de ( Memento from February 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
3. ↑ Manfred P. Emmes: The foreign policy of the USA, Japan a. Germany in mutual influence from the middle of the 19th to the end of the 20th century ; Publishing house Münster; 2000. (p. 41)