Propaganda and Neutrality: Global Case Studies in the 20th Century

This is the first broad-ranging, comprehensive and comparative study of the concepts of propaganda and neutrality. Bringing together world-leading and early career historians, this open access book explores case studies from the time of the First World War to the end of the Cold War in countries such as Belgium, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Switzerland, Vichy France, USA, Argentina, Turkey, Portuguese Macau, Brazil, South Africa, Laos, Yugoslavia, Egypt, India, Malta, and Sweden. The individual chapters analyse the methods and channels of propaganda utilised in neutral countries, including rumours, newspapers, cartoons, films, pamphlets and magazines as well as radio broadcasts, official reports, diplomatic movements, cultural campaigns and soft power. They look to understand how these methods and channels have been deployed and how effective they have been in changing or reinforcing opinions and outcomes. Finally the book highlights the interaction between the concepts of propaganda and neutrality. It considers whether neutrality is a form of propaganda in itself, whether it is possible to be truly neutral in any propaganda battle and how the different forms of neutrality, including projected strict neutrality, non-belligerency and non-alignment, have been utilised by neutrals and belligerents to achieve propaganda goals in the last 120 years. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Foreword, Jo Fox Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Alternative Battlegrounds: an introduction to propaganda and neutrality , Edward Corse and Marta García Cabrera Part I - Propaganda and Neutrality in the First World War 1. American Neutrality and Belligerent Propaganda: Contested Histories Stephen Badsey 2. First World War Propaganda in Neutral Argentina, María Inés Tato 3. Legacies of Neutrality: the propaganda battle and the Greek 'National Schism' at the local level, Georgios Giannakopoulos and Zinovia Lialiouti 4. The Great War at Sea and Portuguese Propaganda, Miguel Brandão 5. Propaganda and Pistolerismo: Barcelona as an alternative battleground of the First World War, Florian Grafl Part II - Propaganda and Neutrality in the Second World War 6. American Propaganda Challenging Irish Neutrality, Karen Garner 7. An Irregular Intellectual: Elizabeth Wiskemann in Berne, Guy Woodward 8. Propaganda and Vichy France's 'neutrality': the impossible challenge, Richard Carswell 9. Turkey's Struggle for Neutrality and the Surveillance of Nazi Propaganda, Yasemin Türkkan Tunali and Yasemin Doganer 10. Beyond Neutrality: Italian cultural propaganda in Portugal, Simone Muraca 11. British Propaganda and Contingency Planning for Spain, Marta García Cabrera 12. Censorship and Private Shows: mapping British film propaganda in Sweden, Emil Stjernholm 13. Neutrality and (anti-)Imperialism: multinational propaganda competition in neutral Macau, Helena F. S. Lopes 14. Magazine Propaganda: influencing readership in neutral and occupied countries, João Arthur Ciciliato Franzolin Part III - Propaganda and Neutrality in the Cold War and beyond 15. 'Operation Mrs Partington': the British Council and the emergence of the Non-Aligned Movement Edward Corse 16. Neutrality and Maoist Propaganda in 1960s Switzerland, Cyril Cordoba 17. Diverging Ideas in a Tragic Effort for the Neutrality of Laos, P. Mike Rattanasengchanh 18. The Global anti-Apartheid Campaign as Counter-Neutrality Propaganda: the US and the UK cases compared, Nicholas J. Cull 19. Epilogue: The Russo-Ukrainian war, propaganda and the end of neutrality?, Pascal Lottaz Index