Neutralism. Peter Lyon, Leicester University Press, 25s.
It is remarkable that, despite the immense impact that the neutral nations have made on international politics. There have been hardly any serious studies of the concept and rôle of positive neutrality in the world today. One therefore opened Peter Lyon’s book with pleasurable anticipation; here was an academic, without an obvious political axe to grind, who had chosen an interesting and, in this country at least, largely untouched subject.