The Story Of International Relations, Part Two: Cold-Blooded Idealists

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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. Acknowledgements......Page 6 Contents......Page 7 Abbreviations......Page 8 Sanctions Before Disarmament: The French Position and Its Critics......Page 9 The Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments: The Polish Memorandum and Moral Disarmament......Page 26 The Committee on Moral Disarmament......Page 36 Revisionism and the Dispute over Ways and Means......Page 43 Shotwell and the Anglo-American Declaration......Page 47 Perrier’s Report to the Fourteenth Plenary Session of the ICIC......Page 50 A Mission to China......Page 52 Manchuria: A Study in the Neutrality of the ICIC......Page 71 Towards a Second Reading......Page 74 Intellectual Cooperation and Fascist Italy......Page 83 The Milan Conference......Page 87 The Opening of the Conference......Page 90 The Liberal Versus the Corporative System......Page 93 The Aftermath of the Conference......Page 96 Surveys of Teaching and Research......Page 100 The Lexicon of Political Terms: 1932......Page 106 The Opening of the London Conference......Page 112 The State and Economic Life......Page 116 The Open Door and Colonial Policy......Page 122 A Canadian Complaint......Page 125 Administrative Matters......Page 127 The Reports of Hoetzsch and Jäckh......Page 131 The New Commonwealth Society......Page 137 The Tardieu Plan......Page 141 How to Accommodate Security and Disarmament?......Page 154 A Change of Government in France......Page 159 The LNU and the Question of an IPF......Page 161 The Einstein/Freud Correspondence......Page 163 Krüss Replaces Einstein on the ICIC......Page 169 The 1933 Plenary Session of the ICIC......Page 172 The Banff Conference......Page 177 A Meeting at Bessinges......Page 192 The Young Plan and the Future of Reparations......Page 201 The German Note and the Bank of International Settlements......Page 209 The Lausanne Conference Opens......Page 212 The Clean Slate Rejected......Page 217 A Consultative Pact?......Page 222 The Battle of the Preambles......Page 228 The Lausanne Accord......Page 232 The Gentlemen’s Agreement......Page 234 French and German Reactions......Page 241 The Accord of Confidence......Page 246 The German Memorandum of 29 August......Page 253 The Background to the French Constructive Plan......Page 255 Paul-Boncour’s Speech of 4 November......Page 262 The French Intervention of 14 November......Page 269 Analyses of and Reactions to the Plan......Page 275 The Conference Resumes......Page 285 German Obstructionism......Page 288 The Origins of the MacDonald Plan......Page 292 MacDonald and Simon Visit Paris......Page 293 Conversations in Geneva: 11 March......Page 298 Conversations in Geneva: 13 March......Page 303 The Prospect of a Four-Power Conference......Page 305 Daladier in Geneva......Page 310 The Presentation of the MacDonald Plan......Page 314 Reactions to the Plan......Page 320 Concerns About Revision......Page 322 The Rome Meeting and Its Aftermath......Page 323 MacDonald’s Speech to Parliament......Page 333 Churchill’s Response......Page 337 The Conclusion of the Four-Power Pact......Page 339 Renewed German Obstructionism......Page 343 Roosevelt’s Telegram......Page 351 Hitler’s ‘Peace Speech’......Page 356 Norman H. Davis’s Intervention......Page 359 Defining the Aggressor......Page 363 Condemning Recourse to Force......Page 368 Article 11 and the Convention to Improve the Means of Preventing War......Page 374 The Draft Convention Is Adopted......Page 386 A Meeting at the Quai d’Orsay......Page 390 Germany Withdraws from the League......Page 393 Paris and Its Preparations......Page 397 Security, Sovereignty and War......Page 405 Collective Security and Neutrality......Page 409 The Organisation of Peace and the Peace Treaties......Page 426 Closing and Administrative Meetings......Page 445 The New Commonwealth and Air Power......Page 447 Repairing the Breach with Germany......Page 463 The Opening of the Eighth International Studies Conference......Page 470 Views of Collective Security......Page 474 Revisionism......Page 484 Anti-revisionism......Page 488 Concrete, Political, and Realistic: A German View......Page 491 The Closing Meeting......Page 499 The Ethiopian Crisis......Page 501 Peaceful Change......Page 514 University Teaching of International Relations......Page 519 A Turning Point......Page 525 A Hardening of Attitudes......Page 527 The Committee of Five......Page 533 Italy Condemned Ethiopia......Page 537 The Shift to Sanctions......Page 545 The Hoare–Laval Plan......Page 549 Weaknesses in the Sanctions Regime......Page 562 The End of Collective Security......Page 567 Index......Page 572