A grand strategy of peace : Britain and the creation of the United Nations Organization, 1939-1945 / Andrew Ehrhardt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ehrhardt, Andrew, author.

Series:

Key studies in diplomacy

Key Studies in Diplomacy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations--Great Britain--History.

United Nations.

United Nations. General Assembly--History.

World politics--1900-1945.

World politics.

World politics--1945-.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1945-.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--1945-.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

Andrew Ehrhardt is Deputy-Director of the Centre for Grand Strategy and a Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies at King's College London

Summary:

A grand strategy of peace is the first detailed account of Britain’s role in the creation of the United Nations Organization during the Second World War. As a work of traditional diplomatic history that brings in elements of intellectual history, the book describes how British officials, diplomats, politicians, and writers – previously seen to be secondary actors to the United States in this period – thought about, planned for, and helped to establish a future international order. While in the present day, many scholars and analysts have returned to the origins of the post- 1945 international system, this book offers an exhaustive account of how the statesmen and more importantly, the officials working below the statesmen, actually conceived of and worked to establish a post-war world order.

Contents:

1. The search for British war aims, September 1939-December 1940

2. The foundations of an Anglo-American order, 1941

3. Concert of the world, 1942

4. The United Nations Plan, January-July 1943

5. The balancing act of a great power peace : the Moscow conference, Anglo-Soviet relations, and the balance of power, August-December 1943

6. Making the machine : planning for the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, January-July 1944

7. Delivering on the plans : the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, the veto question, and a Western security group, August 1944-January 1945

8. The final push : the Yalta and San Francisco conferences, February-June 1945.

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ISBN:

1-5261-8336-6

1-5261-8338-2

OCLC:

1535402350