Strategies of neutrality
Intensifying strategic competition places mounting pressures on secondary states and private actors to align themselves geopolitically. Neutrality is a set of practices and ideas that can inform the strategies and of states, the operations of humanitarian organisations, the principles of international law, and the diplomatic practices of transnational movements and international organisations. This project explores what binds the many manifestations of neutrality together, by highlighting the dilemmas of legitimacy, recognition, and reciprocity that neutral actors face.
Research outputs
- Golson, Eric (2020) ‘The Economics of Neutrality in the Second World War'
- Golson, Eric (2020) ‘The allied neutral? Portuguese balance of payments with the UK and Germany in the second world war’
- Golson, Eric (2018) ‘Small states in harm’s way: Neutrality in war’
- Golson, Eric; Lennard, Jason (2016) ‘The macroeconomic effects of neutrality: Evidence from the Nordic countries during the wars’
- Golson, Eric (2016) ‘Neutrality in War’.
Project lead
Dr Eric Golson
Associate Professor of Economics
Biography
His current research interests include international trade warfare, business decision making during war, effectiveness of economic sanctions, military spending, and resource management in the context of war. An active member of two research clusters at Surrey: Centre for International Macroeconomic Studies (CIMS) within the School of Economics and the Centre for the Study of Global Power Competition (CGPC) within the Politics faculty, Eric was previously a Research Fellow at Oxford University from 2011-2016.
Eric holds a PhD and PGCHE from the London School of Economics. He earned his BA and MA degrees from the University of Chicago. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society for his work in Economic History.