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Öğe The preservation of neutrality during world war II deterrence vs. appeasement(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2021) Sanus, Ekin; Tuğtan, Mehmet AliABSTRACT: This study explores neutrality during World War II over the examples of Switzerland and Turkey, and the means by which small states of Europe protected and preserved their status as non-belligerents in the face of immense pressure both from friendly Great Powers that sought to draw them into the war as allied cobelligerents and from hostile Great Powers that sought to undermine their independence and sovereignty and carry out a hostile invasion. Theoretically, a small state has two options to this end: She can either deter the Great Powers through a show of force, or she can appease them through concessions. This study argues, however, that in actual fact, it is completely impossible for a small state to prevent being dragged into the war through the threat of force, that is, through deterrence. Throughout the study it will be shown that a small state’s only hope for staying out of the war is to appease the Great Powers that have taken an interest in them.
