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Neutrality has played an important role in American history. It was the policy recommended by George Washington in his Farewell Address, and it was the course most regularly pursued towards Europe between 1793 and 1941. In this long period of time, the United States also contributed materially to the development of the international law of neutrality and the Hague Conventions of 1907, in which many of these laws were codified. Small wonder that much has been written about America and neutrality.1 In particular, the specifically American conception of neutrality has received much attention.2
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© 1988 Jürg Martin Gabriel
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Gabriel, J.M. (1988). Introduction. In: The American Conception of Neutrality after 1941. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19524-4_1
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