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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Neutrality

Ioannis A Tassopoulos

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
January 2017

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
Constitutional processes — War — Tolerance

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1. Neutrality is about being ‘a third’ vis-à-vis a conflict between others. The claim of neutrality is a claim addressed to the belligerent parties to show respect for the choice of the neutral not to become involved in their conflict, under the condition, however, of strict impartiality of the neutral toward them. 2. Neutrality has both self-regarding and other-regarding aspects. The former involve the abstention and the disengagement of a third from the conflict between others; and, as such, it is voluntaristic in nature (Walzer 234)—a vindication of autonomy...
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