Neutral Countries as Clandestine Battlegrounds, 1939–1968 -

Neutral Countries as Clandestine Battlegrounds, 1939–1968

Between Two Fires
Buch | Hardcover
285 Seiten
2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-8320-6 (ISBN)
99,95 inkl. MwSt
This collection analyzes how rival states used neutral territories as sites of clandestine competition during the Second World War and the Cold War. It also examines how neutral governments coped with challenges to national sovereignty posed by international spies, corrupt officials, and foreign assassins.
During the Second World War and the subsequent Cold War, foreign agents conducted intelligence-gathering, sabotage, and subversive operations inside neutral countries aimed at damaging their opponents' interests. The essays contained in this collection analyze the risks of espionage operations on neutral soil as well as the dangers their covert activities posed for the governments of neutral states. In striving to avoid involvement in the firing line of the Second World War or the front line of the Cold War, the contributors argue that neutral states developed security policies that focused on protecting their own sovereignty without provoking overt hostility from any of the great powers. This collection describes how the warring parties engaged in competition on neutral territory and analyzes how neutral governments rose to the existential challenge posed by international spies, their own venal officials, and even foreign assassins.

André Gerolymatos (1951–2019) was professor and director of the Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University. Denis Smyth is professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. James Horncastle is assistant professor and Edward and Emily McWhinney Professor in International Relations at Simon Fraser University.

Chapter 1: Intelligence in Neutral Washington, 1914-1917 and 1939-1941



Chapter 2: "Under Morphia" from Madrid: Abduction and Anglo-Spanish Relations in 1941



Chapter 3: Making Waves: A German Radio in Neutral Ireland and Naval Operations in 1942



Chapter 4: Safe Harbour? Clandestine British and German Activities in Portugal and its Colonies during the Second World War



Chapter 5: Ambiguous Neutrality and Nazi Intelligence in Spain during the Second World War



Chapter 6: Guardians of the "Whispering Gallery"? Switzerland, Neutrality and the Clandestine War



Chapter 7: Clandestine “Comrades": The Comintern, Tito and the Underground Communist Party of Yugoslavia, 1939-1941



Chapter 8: British Preparations for Clandestine War in Greece and the Balkans, 1939-40



Chapter 9: Ankara: Rabbit-Warren of Spies



Chapter 10: Afghanistan, 1937-1945: From Lynchpin to Backwater



Chapter 11: "Berlin of the East": India and the Politics of Cold War Asylum



Chapter 12: André Gerolymatos: An Appreciation

Erscheinungsdatum
Co-Autor James Horncastle, Christopher Andrew, Egemen Bezci
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 230 mm
Gewicht 549 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-4985-8320-2 / 1498583202
ISBN-13 978-1-4985-8320-6 / 9781498583206
Zustand Neuware
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