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With a decline in East-West tensions, and a growing restlessness in the NATO and Warsaw Pact alliances, the issues of neutralism and nonalignment have come back into vogue. Although the five traditional neutrals--Austria, Finland, Ireland, Sweden, and Switzerland--have long remained models for other small states, in each case their neutral stance was a product of either geography or international agreement. The question now being raised is whether other states can adopt a neutralism stance and manuever through the perilous currents of world conflicts. This edited volume is the fifth in a series sponsored by the Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO studies. The editors are on the faculty of Kent State University. The volume is organized into eight chapters. An introduction explores the conceptual and legal framework of neutrality and nonalignment in Europe. The remaining chapters deal respectively with Switzerland, Sweden, Ireland, Finland, Austria, Yugoslavia, and Albania. There is no concluding or summary chapter. Bibliographic materials are cited within each chapter. Although each country is treated in detail, the volume lacks an overall comparative focus. For graduate students and faculty. -V. E. McHale, Case Western Reserve University
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