... of ways of life? Should the EU be perfectionist, or adhere instead to liberal neutrality? The chapter articulates four guiding principles which together define ‘impartial perfectionism’, in which the EU framework even-handedly assures and affirms diversity of morally acceptable ways of life. Impartial...

...Through the words and actions of a few key male leaders who determined national policies for British and American Allied Powers and for neutral Ireland during the Second World War, this book explores what happens when sentiments of fraternal friendship and enmity were politicized and when...

... and their significance assessed. The shape of Irish foreign-policy-making structures is then drawn out and the usefulness of this book's approach to Irish foreign policy is then considered in three brief case studies: Ireland's European experience, its neutrality and Irish policy towards the 2003 Iraq War....

... Depression and its aftermath. While many members staunchly defended the principle of co-operative neutrality against those who would align the movement with left or right, the crisis also highlighted the need for the co-operative movement to develop its own ideology and programme, especially if co-operation...

...Within the space of roughly two decades, Sweden has changed from a neutral country to one that is currently engaged in a range of activities and practices that are far removed from the definition of neutrality. Its engagement with NATO, contribution of forces to Kosovo, Afghanistan and Libya...

... historiography Lemass Seán Supplies Department of establishment neutrality Kavanagh Patrick Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland Cumann na nGaedheal industry unemployment exports foot and mouth outbreak 1941 fuel shortages imports petrol Britain wages censorship moral economy O'Rahilly Alfred...

... independence Brandenburg limitation on power Austria Prussia bandwagoning free riding small states Melos neutrality restraint on power Denmark Poland pre emption Castel de Saint Pierre Charles Irénée Kant Immanuel war Alsace Bavaria Augsburg Alliance Brunswick Frankfurt Alliance Hamburg...

... Valera and Franklin Roosevelt also established their nations’ strikingly dissimilar neutrality policies. De Valera declared Ireland’s neutrality when Britain went to war with Germany and his Defence Minister, Frank Aiken, enforced a strict censorship of all war news and suppressed any expressions of bias...

...Friends and enemies: The Allies and neutral Ireland in the Second World War examines the personal friendships and embittered conflicts among British, American, and Irish national leaders, their Dublin-based foreign policy advisers, and an American journalist as those relationships...

...The overarching argument presented in this book is that the claims of culture, identity, and nation are being pushed too far, and that the idea of democracy will not work unless it is firmly grounded upon at least a minimal amount of ‘neutrality’. The concept of ‘responsibility’ underlies...

..., it explores the claim that a ‘secure cultural context’ is a right necessary to protect and enhance the personal identity and sense of self-worth of cultural groups outside the dominant cultural context. Neutrality and universality, and the priority of individual rights, are strongly disputed. Group rights...

...This chapter explores the political context surrounding the inflation of democratic meaning. It also reports a very basic conception of ‘democratic neutrality’ which preserves the ability of democracy to prevent the concentration of power based upon political or economic influence, or even upon...

...Emphasizes a spectral blending of Famine and World War II imagery in Sebastian Barry’s novel The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998), which argues against Irish neutrality. I define and measure the effect of spectrality in Barry’s fiction by focusing on the ghostly (tropes, modes...

... and presents his philosophical system as a set of irrefutable propositions. In laying out the criteria for truthful cognition, he exalts conformity and consent as epistemological ideals. These ideals – when tested by the perils of praxis – will underwrite a stance of political neutrality. For Herbert, consent...

...Although Bildt's government was short-lived, the impact of Swedish politics and society was not insignificant. When the Social Democrats returned to power, they steered Sweden into the EU. This presented a particular challenge to neutrality for a European Union that had ambitions to develop...

...Neutrality as a concept and practice has long been conceptualised in IR theory as problematic. Broadly seen as the tool of small and weak states with dubious moral credentials, a limited understanding of neutrality has persisted from the Peloponnesian War to the ‘war on terror’. Furthermore...

...-being) and one arguably non-Hobbesian notion form the basis of modern liberalism. The recognition of a dark side to toleration was always present throughout the development of liberalism as a political doctrine. The feminist critique of neutrality has at least three different components: state, norms...

...In the first book detailing the social and economic history of Ireland during the Second World War, Dr Bryce Evans reveals the hidden story of the Irish Emergency. If the diplomatic history of Irish neutrality is familiar, the realities of everyday life are much less so. This work provides a clear...