Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Vatican and Permanent Neutrality

Av Marshall J. Breger, Herbert R. Reginbogin

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Beskrivning

The essays in this book cover a fast-paced 150 years of Vatican diplomacy, starting from the fall of the Papal States in 1870 to the present day. They trace the transformation of the Vatican from a state like any other to an entity uniquely providing spiritual and moral sustenance in world affairs. In particular, the book details the Holy See’s use of neutrality as a tool and the principal statecraft in its diplomatic portmanteau. This concept of “permanent neutrality,” as codified in the Lateran Treaties of 1929, is a central concept adding to the Vatican's uniqueness and, as a result, the analysis of its policies does not easily fit within standard international relations or foreign policy scholarship. These essays consider in detail the Vatican’s history with “permanent neutrality” and its application in diplomacy toward delicate situations as, for instance, vis a vis Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and Imperial Japan, but also in the international relations of the Cold War in debates about nuclear non-proliferation, or outreach toward the third world, including Cuba and Venezuela. The book also considers the ineluctable tension between pastoral teachings and realpolitik, as the church faces a reckoning with its history.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2024-02-28
Mått: 151 x 228 x 24 mm
Vikt: 494 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 322
Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN: 9781793642189

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Marshall J. Breger is professor at the Columbus School of Law of the Catholic University of America.Herbert Reginbogin is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at the Catholic University of America.

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What kind of an international actor is the Holy See? This question is asked and answered in this remarkable, wide-ranging volume by a number of leading scholars. This book travels from Rome to the Philippines; and from the papacy of Leo XIII to that of Pope Francis. This kind of breadth is challenging, and therefore rare, but it is the only way to analytically grasp the Vatican as an institution with truly global interests. The contributions are linked by an attempt to understand what, precisely, neutrality might mean in an age when the lines between neutrality and complicity were so blurred. The Vatican, not without controversy, has pioneered a way to remain technically neutral while also retaining enormous influence. The authors here utilize an enormous archive to understand how that strategy emerged, and what its record has been. It remains to be seen what will become of it in the twenty-first century, but anyone seeking to answer that question ought to begin, with this volume, by understanding its origins.

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