A Grand Strategy of Peace : Britain and the Creation of the United Nations Organization, 1939-1945 / Andrew Ehrhardt.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Ehrhardt, Andrew.

Series:

• Key studies in diplomacy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• United Nations--Great Britain--History.
• United Nations. General Assembly--History.
• Great Britain--Politics and government--1945-.
• Great Britain--Foreign relations--1945-.
• United Nations.
• Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2025.

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.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

• 1-5261-8336-6
• 1-5261-8338-2

OCLC:

1535402350