Story of International Relations

Jo-Anne Pemberton The Story of International Relations, Part Three Cold-Blooded Idealists PSIR · PALGRAVE STUDIES IN INTERNATION ...

Series Editors Mai’a K. Davis Cross Northeastern University Boston, MA, USA Benjamin de Carvalho Norwegian Institute of Internat ...

Palgrave Studies in International Relations (the EISA book series), published in association with European International Studies ...

Jo-Anne Pemberton The Story of International Relations, Part Three Cold-Blooded Idealists ...

Jo-Anne Pemberton School of Social Sciences University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW, Australia Palgrave Studies in Internation ...

v Acknowledgements I am considerably indebted to a number of people who have sup- ported me in preparing this manuscript. I woul ...

vii contents 1 Peaceful Change or War? 1 2 Paris, 1937: Colonial Questions and Peace 87 3 Conferences at Prague and Bergen and t ...

ix AbbreviAtions BCCIS British Coordinating Committee for International Studies CFR Council on Foreign Relations CISSIR Conferen ...

1 A study of History Arnold J. Toynbee’s multi-volume work A Study of History, the first three volumes of which appeared in 1934 ...

2 J.-A. PEMBERTON Yet irrespective of the massive amount of historical data on which Toynbee drew in charting the course civilis ...

1 PEACEFUL CHANGE OR WAR? 3 when ‘one or several privileged souls, having dilated in themselves the social soul, have broken the ...

4 J.-A. PEMBERTON by the whip within their own domain while periodically turning their batteries on their neighbours without.^15 ...

1 PEACEFUL CHANGE OR WAR? 5 before they would ‘enter into an effective social contract or else submit to the terrible alternativ ...

6 J.-A. PEMBERTON PeAceful cHAnge or wAr? An Address At cHAtHAm House Toynbee was very disturbed by Italy’s violation of the Cov ...

1 PEACEFUL CHANGE OR WAR? 7 On the evening of December 17, 1935, Toynbee presented a paper at a general meeting at Chatham House ...

8 J.-A. PEMBERTON approved Laval’s scheme, albeit on a provisional basis. Known as the Hoare-Laval plan, when stripped of its eu ...

1 PEACEFUL CHANGE OR WAR? 9 the events of the previous ten days had cast doubt on his assumption that there was a strong desire ...

10 J.-A. PEMBERTON The ISC was an organisation which had its origins in a meeting of savants interested in the study of internat ...

1 PEACEFUL CHANGE OR WAR? 11 pointed out in his Chatham House address of December 17, 1935, that at its General Conference on th ...

12 J.-A. PEMBERTON the stabilisation of peace in Europe.^35 Also notable in this regard was an inaugural address delivered at th ...