Can Neutrality Restore Ukraine?
Journal: Connections The Quarterly Journal
Year: 2025

This article seeks to understand neutrality through the experiences of postwar Finland and Austria, endeavoring to use these states’ experiences as a prism through which to analyze neutrality’s utility as a postwar option for Ukraine. A historical assessment of the characteristics of imposed neutrality in postwar Finland and Austria helps analyze Russia’s vision of neutrality. The experiences of select postconflict states may also provide models for a neutral postwar Ukraine. A credibly armed Uk