The Story of International Relations, Part Two

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.

Chronologically reviews the development of IR from 1932 to 1936 Studies the 1932 Mission to China and conference in Milan through to the Hoover Plan and the Lausanne Accord, to the MacDonald Plan and post-war reconstruction Demonstrates that the study of power politics, natural law thinking, and international justice was active outside of the main centres of power, in the context of Europe, the Pacific region, and the continent of America

Autorentext

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

Inhalt

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.