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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Andrew Collison Baker |
| ISBN: | 9781848856363 1848856369 |
| OCLC Number: | 667822755 |
| Description: | xiv, 327 p. : maps ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction. Revisionism : a brief introduction -- The British Commonwealth and post-war order -- The organisation of this study -- The imperial world -- Imperial systems -- Commonwealth -- Good neighbours -- Anglo-American cooperation -- Aviation and the evolving idea of world order -- The messy business of integration -- The trouble with American power. Aviation and regionalism -- The Canadian analysis of American power -- The Canadian conundrum -- Towards a Canadian policy -- Australia, New Zealand and the big two -- Redefining imperial frontiers -- Regional solutions -- Smuts and Britain -- Smuts and Africa -- Greater South Africa and aviation -- Planning for post-war order. Organising the peace : the new global technocracy -- The peculiar challenge of the Soviet Union -- Post-hostilities planning in Britain -- Canada -- Australia -- New Zealand -- South Africa -- Visions of post-war order. Britain and the 'Four Power' plan -- The military implications of a general settlement -- British policy : core questions -- South Africa : hinge of the Commonwealth? -- Canada : squaring the quartersphere -- America and the post-war settlement -- The general settlement and Canadian security -- Defending Australia -- Defining Australian aspirations -- Australia and collective security -- New Zealand post-war concerns -- The Canberra Conference and after -- New Zealand and collective security -- The British Commonwealth in world affairs. Britain and the dominions -- Diplomatic drift -- British preparations -- The dominion premiers' meeting -- Smuts and atomic diplomacy -- Dumbarton Oaks -- Canadian lobbying -- The Canadian response -- The Australian response -- New Zealand -- The Wellington Conference -- Functional negotiations. Functional convergence in planning for post-war aviation -- The Commonwealth between Britain and America -- The Chicago Conference -- Towards multilateralism -- The London technical talks -- The Council -- Broad Commonwealth agreement -- The great powers and collective security. Yalta -- The San Francisco Conference -- The preamble -- Smuts' shrinking circle -- The veto -- The Security Council -- The General Assembly -- Trusteeship -- Power and the new international society -- Failure. The London Preparatory Commission -- The Executive Committee -- The Preparatory Commission -- The General Assembly : 10 January to 15 February, 1946 -- Council membership and elections -- Trusteeship -- Trends in the General Assembly -- The General Assembly: 23 October to 17 December, 1946 -- The decline of Australian foreign policy -- The defeat of Smuts : Southwest Africa -- The Commonwealth and the revolt against the West -- Regional integration, imperial disintegration. The intractable problems of post-war security -- The post-war disposition of territory : the South Pacific -- The post-war disposition of territory : the Italian colonies -- The 1946 Dominion Premiers' Meeting -- The Commonwealth and military liaison -- The Commonwealth and scientific liaison -- Pacific bases -- The Italian colonies -- The peace treaties -- Colonial retreat -- Canada and Commonwealth defence -- Towards the Brussels Pact -- Conclusion. Notes on the political economy of post-war order. |
| Series Title: | International library of twentieth century history, 35. |
| Responsibility: | Andrew Baker. |
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