Impartial or Uninvolved? : The Anatomy of 20th Century Doctrine on the Law of Neutrality

It is an eternal question whether one should engage or not. Is it possible to be idle and indifferent when people seek freedom against an oppressive aggressor – like in Francisco Goya’s famous pictures? This work focuses on neutrality as a 20th century international legal discourse. A number of doctrinal texts have been read both as legal arguments and as texts with philosophical and political implications. A well-known controversy throughout most of the century has been the relation between ne