Scandinavia and the Great Powers in the First World War

This study is among the first works in English to comprehensively address the Scandinavian First World War experience in the larger international context of the war. It surveys the complex relationship between the belligerent great powers and Northern Europe''s neutral small states in times of crisis and war.The book''s overreaching rationale draws upon three underlying conceptual fields: neutrality and international law, hegemony and great power politics as well as diplomacy and policy-making of small states in the international arena. From a variety of angles, it examines the question of how neutrality was understood and perceived, negotiated and dealt with both among the Scandinavian states and the belligerent major powers, especially Britain, Germany and Russia.For a long time, the experience of neutral countries during the First World War was seen as marginal, and was overshadowed by the experiences of occupation and collaboration brought about by the Second World War. In this book, Jonas demonstrates how this perception has changed, with neutrality becoming an integral part of the multiple narratives of the First World War. It is an important contribution to the international history of the First World War, cultural-historically influenced approaches to diplomatic history and the growing area of neutrality studies.>

Product details

• Authors: Michael Jonas, Michael (Helmut-Schmidt-University Jonas
• Assisted by: Thomas Zeiler (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781350046351
• ISBN: 978-1-350-04635-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: New Approaches to Internationa; New Approaches to International History; New Approaches to Internationa
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, First World War, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Archaeology, c 1910 to c 1919, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I