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Zusatztext [R]ewarding for both those who want to explore the wartime experiences of the region for the first time and those who have worked extensively on Scandinavia and the First World War. Informationen zum Autor Michael Jonas is Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer of Modern History at Helmut-Schmidt-University! Hamburg! Germany! and Adjunct Professor at the University of Helsinki! Finland. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTION1. COMPARING NEUTRALITIESNeutral Allies, Immoral Pariahs? Scandinavian Neutrality and Great Power Politics2. ROYAL DIPLOMACYThree Kings Posturing? Royal diplomacy and Scandinavian neutrality in the First World War3. ACTIVISM AND POLITICSActivism, Diplomacy and Swedish-German Relations during the First World War4. INTELLECTUALS AND WAR IN SCANDINAVIA AND BEYOND “The Whole World is Ruled by Schadenfreude”: Georg Brandes’ War5. STATE, EMPIRE, AND REVOLUTIONRussia and Finland in the First World War: Thoughts on the Vanishing of a Grand Duchy in History and Memory6. ARGUING (OVER) TERRITORY AND SOVEREIGNTY The Åland Question in Great Power Politics and International Law,1917-1921BIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX...
