The Story of International Relations, Part Two - Cold-Blooded Idealists

This book is the second volume in a trilogy that traces the development of the academic subject of International Relations, or what was often referred to in the interwar years as International Studies. In this volume, the author begins with the 1932 Mission to China and conference in Milan, examines the International Studies Conference, reviews the Hoover Plan, the MacDonald Plan, the fate of the World Disarmament Conference, and the League of Nations' role in the discipline. This one of a kind project takes on the task of reviewing the development of IR, aptly published in celebration of the discipline's centenary. 

List of contents

1. Chapter 1: 1932: Material and Moral Disarmament, a Mission to China and  a Conference in Milan.- 2. Chapter 2: The International Studies Conference.- 3. Chapter 3:  The Hoover Plan, Reparations, and the French Constructive Plan.- 4. Chapter 4: The MacDonald Plan.- 5. Chapter 5: The Fate of the Disarmament Conference.- 6. Chapter 6: Collective Security, Air Police and Defining the Aggressor.- 7. Chapter 7: The League of Nations and Collective Security.

About the author

Jo-Anne Pemberton is Honorary Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Summary

This book is the second volume in a trilogy that traces the development of the academic subject of International Relations, or what was often referred to in the interwar years as International Studies. In this volume, the author begins with the 1932 Mission to China and conference in Milan, examines the International Studies Conference, reviews the Hoover Plan, the MacDonald Plan, the fate of the World Disarmament Conference, and the League of Nations’ role in the discipline. This one of a kind project takes on the task of reviewing the development of IR, aptly published in celebration of the discipline’s centenary. 

Product details

• Authors: Jo-Anne Pemberton
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2020
• EAN: 9783030218232
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3021823-2
• No. of pages: 575
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 39 mm x 218 mm
• Weight: 878 g
• Illustrations: IX, 575 p. 1 illus.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Europa, B, History: specific events & topics, Europe, Politik und Staat, Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen, European Politics, Politische Führer und Führung, Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften, Political Theory, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Political leaders & leadership, Political History, Political Science and International Studies, Comparative Politics, World Politics, Europe—Politics and government, Political Leadership, IR, air police, collective security