Russia's Cunning Use Of Neutrality: How Great Powers Do World Politics

Originally published on 29 Apr 2025.
Neutrality is much more than fence-sitting. It's a strategic way of approaching world affairs and it's not reserved for smalls states like Switzerland or Austria only. Want proof? Here is a short analysis of the Soviet-Japanese neutrality pact during the Second World War and some of Russia's modern use of the concept even beyond Ukraine.

⁠00:00⁠ When Neutrality Becomes Popular
⁠05:04⁠ How Neutrality Works
⁠11:20⁠ Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact
⁠17:07⁠ Russian-North Korean Neutrality Clause

Extract of a presentation given via video to an International Relations conference, April 2025.

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