Scandinavia and the Great Powers in the First World War

Michael Jonas (Author)

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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.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. COMPARING NEUTRALITIES
Neutral Allies, Immoral Pariahs? Scandinavian Neutrality and Great Power Politics

2. ROYAL DIPLOMACY
Three Kings Posturing? Royal diplomacy and Scandinavian neutrality in the First World War

3. ACTIVISM AND POLITICS
Activism, Diplomacy and Swedish-German Relations during the First World War

4. INTELLECTUALS AND WAR IN SCANDINAVIA AND BEYOND “The Whole World is Ruled by Schadenfreude”: Georg Brandes' War

5. STATE, EMPIRE, AND REVOLUTION
Russia and Finland in the First World War: Thoughts on the Vanishing of a Grand Duchy in History and Memory

6. ARGUING (OVER) TERRITORY AND SOVEREIGNTY The Åland Question in Great Power Politics and International Law,
1917-1921

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Product details

Published	21 Feb 2019
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Extent	248
ISBN	9781350046375
Imprint	Bloomsbury Academic
Series	New Approaches to International History
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Michael Jonas

Michael Jonas is Postdoctoral Research Fellow and…

[A] compact and accessible volume ... [Jonas'] comparative history integrates aspects of the transnational and cultural turns as applied in new political history ... It is hoped that this book inspires Scandinavian and Finnish historians to view their national narratives in a comparative and transnational context.

First World War Studies
It is to be hoped that Jonas's studies will contribute toward integrating Scandinavian perspectives into the international history of the war.

American Historical Review
[A] welcome addition to the growing body of work on small state neutrality and wartime North-Western Europe. Students and researchers of the period will find something here to interest them … The extensive bibliography especially will be of use to readers looking for an entry port into the wider historiography of the Nordic countries during the Great War.

European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire
The book will be rewarding 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.

Journal of Military History
The book is written clearly and students of Scandinavia in the First World War will certainly find it most instructive.

Michigan War Studies Review
Michael Jonas shows in this book a remarkable width and depth of scholarship on early twentieth century Scandinavian history. As he so convincingly points out, the big drama of 1914-1918 had both its peculiarities and long-lasting consequences for this realm of Northern Europe.

Henrik Meinander, Professor of History, University of Helsinki, Finland