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This book examines Vatican diplomacy from the fall of the Papal States in 1870 to the present day. The contributors focus on the concept of permanent neutrality and trace the Vatican’s political transformation into a modern international institution in conjunction with its use of neutrality as a tool of diplomacy and statecraft.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Marshall J. Breger and Herbert Reginbogin
FROM THE PAPAL STATES TO THE VATICAN: 1870-1929
Chapter 1 - The Holy See and Neutrality: Vatican Diplomacy 1870-1929, John F. Pollard
Chapter 2 - The Holy See and Neutrality in the Aftermath of World War I: The Consequences of the Treaty of Versailles and Other Peace Treaties, Kurt Martens
Chapter 3 - The Lateran Treaty and the Hermeneutics of the Holy See Neutrality, Maria d'Airenzo
THE LONG SECOND WORLD WAR 1931-1945
Chapter 4 - Neutrality to the Test: The Vatican and the Fascist Wars of the Thirties, Lucia Ceci
Chapter 5 - Vatican Diplomacy and Church Realities in the Philippines during World War II, Pascal Lottaz
Chapter 6 - Pope Pius XII, Vatican Neutrality, and the Holocaust: Case Studies from the Newly Opened Vatican Archives, Suzanne Brown-Fleming
INTO THE COLD: 1950-1990
Chapter 7 - No Neutrality in Ideology: The Holy See and the Cold War, Piotr H. Kosicki
Chapter 8 - The Holy See's Efforts to Secure the
About the author
Marshall J. Breger is professor at the Columbus School of Law of the Catholic University of America. Herbert Reginbogin is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at the Catholic University of America.Herbert R. Reginbogin is a Collegiate law fellow at the Catholic University of America Institute for Policy Research and professor of international relations and international law. Marshall J. Breger is professor at the Columbus School of Law of the Catholic University of America. Herbert Reginbogin is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at the Catholic University of America.Herbert R. Reginbogin is a Collegiate law fellow at the Catholic University of America Institute for Policy Research and professor of international relations and international law. Piotr H. Kosicki is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, USA. He has also taught at the Cooper Union, McGill, Princeton, Sciences Po, the University of Virginia, and Warsaw University, Poland. He is the author, most recently, of Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and “Revolution”, 1891-1956 (2018) as well as being the editor/co-editor of seven books. His shorter writings have appeared in the TLS, the Nation, the New Republic, Commonweal, and the Washington Post.Maryann Cusimano Love is tenured Associate Professor of International Relations in the Politics Department of The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.
Summary
This book examines Vatican diplomacy from the fall of the Papal States in 1870 to the present day. The contributors focus on the concept of permanent neutrality and trace the Vatican’s political transformation into a modern international institution in conjunction with its use of neutrality as a tool of diplomacy and statecraft.
