The Vatican and Permanent Neutrality - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1793642184 ISBN 13: 9781793642189

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2024

Synopsis

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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About the Authors

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.

Herbert R. Reginbogin is a Collegiate law fellow at the Catholic University of America Institute for Policy Research and professor of international relations and international law.

Piotr H. Kosicki is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, USA. He has also taught at the Cooper Union, McGill, Princeton, Sciences Po, the University of Virginia, and Warsaw University, Poland. He is the author, most recently, of Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and “Revolution”, 1891-1956 (2018) as well as being the editor/co-editor of seven books. His shorter writings have appeared in the TLS, the Nation, the New Republic, Commonweal, and the Washington Post.

Maryann Cusimano Love is tenured Associate Professor of International Relations in the Politics Department of The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1793642184
• ISBN 13: 9781793642189
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 322
• Editor: Breger Marshall J.