This book sheds new light on the role of neutral states and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in the global Cold War.

Sandra Bott is Research Associate at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Jussi M. Hanhimäki is Professor of International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He is the author of numerous books, including most recently The Rise and Fall of Détente: American Foreign Policy and the Transformation of the Cold War (2013).

Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl is Assistant Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Marco Wyss is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Chichester, Senior Researcher at the University of Lausanne, and Scientific Editor of the International Bibliography of Military History.

Introduction, Marco Wyss, Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Sandra Bott, and Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl PART I: THE EVOLUTION OF NEUTRALITY AND NON-ALIGNMENT 1. Non-Aligned to What? European Neutrality and the Cold War, Jussi M. Hanhimäki 2. Roots of the Non-Aligned Movement in Neutralism Foreign Policies: Yugoslavia, Finland and the Soviet Political Border with Europe 1948-1961, Rinna Elina Kullaa 3. The Bandung Conference: Ideological Conflict and the Limitations of US Propaganda, Eric D. Pullin 4. "Companions in Misfortune": From Passive Neutralism to Active Un-commitment - the Critical Role of Yugoslavia, Svetozar Rajak 5. The Non-Alignment, 1961-1974, Lorenz M. Lüthi 6. "Third World Begins to Flex its Muscles": The Non-Aligned Movement and the North-South-Conflict during the 1970s, Jürgen Dinkel PART II: NEUTRALITY AND NEUTRALISM IN PRACTICE 7. An Austrian Mediation in Vietnam? The Superpowers, Neutrality, and Kurt Waldheim's Good Offices, Wolfgang Mueller and Maximilian Graf 8. The Non-Aligned Movement, the Neutral European Countries, and the Issue of Namibian Independence, Chris Saunders 9. Neutrality Unbound: Sweden, Foreign Aid and the Rise of the Non-Aligned Third World, Nikolas Glover 10. Neutrality as a Business Strategy: Switzerland and Latin America in the Cold War, Ursina Bentele and Sacha Zala 11. Cubans in Angola. Internationalist Solidarity, Transfers and Interactions in the Global South 1975-1991, Christine Hatzky Conclusion: Neutrality and Nonalignment During and Beyond the Cold War, Jussi M. Hanhimäki