‘With ‘Permanent Neutralization’, Peter Haldén has once again managed to illuminate an extremely important corner of world politics which most other scholars have tended to ignore. This book is not only of theoretical and historical interest, however. It is a useful guide to the possibilities and limits of neutralization as a possible strategy in trying to solve contemporary conflicts.’

Mathias Albert - Bielefeld University

‘This is a timely, erudite and very readable book about a topic which many should know more about. With his usual ear for echoes of the past in our present, Haldén makes neutralization historically understandable, theoretically interesting and contemporarily relevant.'

Halvard Leira - Research Director and Research Professor, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

‘Peter Haldén’s accessible, well-researched, well-argued and timely book rescues neutrality from the great condescension of posterity. It should be read by anyone – especially scholars and policy-makers – trying to understand how it can be not merely a moral or convenient but also a rational choice.’

Brendan Simms - Director of the Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge