Institute for National Strategic Studies


McNair Paper Number 33, Contents, January 1995

American Neutrality in the 20th Century

The Impossible Dream

John N. Petrie

NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY

McNair Paper 33

January 1995


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE

1. INTRODUCTION

Assumptions and Considerations

The Law of Neutrality and Relative Combat Power

Definitions and Clarifications

Neutrality in the Modern World

Neutrality and Civil War

2. The Change

The Beginning

The Spanish-American War

The Change is Understood

The Mexican Revolution

Avoiding World War I

3. THE INTERWAR PERIOD

The More Things Change

The League of Nations

The Havana Convention on Maritime Neutrality

The Kellogg-Briand Pact

An Isolationist United States

4. THE FRUITS OF ISOLATIONISM - (Continuation)

Backing Into War

The Price of Violent Peace

5. ENTER THE UNITED NATIONS - (Continuation)

Recreating the Wheel of Peace

The Charter

Exploitation and Escalation

6. POSTWAR "PEACE" - (Contination)

Unequals in the Postwar World

Still in Force

The Suez Crisis

Justice at the Expense of Peace?

The Nixon Doctrine

The 1971 Indo-Pakistani War

The Bloody Lebanese "Peace"

The War Powers Resolution

Other Cases

7. PERSPECTIVE - (Contination)

Historical Assessment

The Future

The Role of Naval Diplomacy

Does the Law Foster Peace with Justice?

8. PRESCRIPTION - (Continuation)

Summary

Conclusion

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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