The Juggler

Kimball, Warren F.

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“…40 In the Tehran Conference 1943, Roosevelt pressed for this proposal and Stalin in principle supported it, but suggested, as Churchill had separately, that it would require management through respective regional committees, rather than global cooperation. 41 The Soviet view of the matter came from a different outlook. 42 The lesson of the League's demise from the Soviet outlook was a confirmation that imperial powers inevitably descend into war.…”

Section: And the Cold War Ordermentioning

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On the concept of international disorder

McKeil

2020

International Relations

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International relations today are widely considered to be experiencing deepening disorder and the topic of international disorder is gaining increased attention. Yet, despite this recent interest in international disorder, in and beyond the academy, and despite the decades-long interest in international order, there is still little agreement on the concept of international disorder, which is often used imprecisely and with an alarmist rather than analytical usage. This is a problem if international disorder is to be understood in theory, towards addressing its concomitant problems and effects in practice. As such, this article identifies and explores two ways international order studies can benefit from a clearer and more precise conception of international disorder. First, it enables a more complete picture of how orderly international orders have been. Second, a greater understanding of the problem of international order is illuminated by a clearer grasp of the relation between order and disorder in world politics. The article advances these arguments in three steps. First, an analytical concept of international disorder is developed and proposed. Second, applying it to the modern history of international order, the extent to which there is a generative relationship between order and disorder in international systems is explored. Third, it specifies the deepening international disorder in international affairs today. It concludes by indicating a research agenda for International Relations and international order studies that takes the role of international disorder more seriously.

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Section: And the Cold War Ordermentioning

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On the concept of international disorder

McKeil

2020

International Relations

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“…59 Similarly, Secretary of State Cordell Hull's dismissal of Russia's actions toward Poland as a 'piddling little thing' which could not be allowed to get in the way of the 'main issues' of great-power co-operation demonstrated just how compromising the Allies were willing to be. 60 What the public and private records indicate is that there existed amongst the three greatest powers a determination to maintain co-operation and an understanding that, given the huge material strength of each, the only viable way to do this was through appeal to common interests and compromise. Put another way, pursuit of mutual interests and acceptance of the need for accommodation were recognised as the only means by which cohesion along the horizontal axis of great-power concert could be preserved; within the rank of the great powers there was little, if any, scope for the exercise of material might as a means to persuasion.…”

Section: The Great-power Concert and The Post-war Peacementioning

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“…The idea of 'peace by dictation' had given way to a far more consultative approach in which the great powers, though still dominant, would be obliged to confer with and persuade lesser powers in order to act in the name and for the sake of the post-war peace. Similarly, the idea of a world in which, in Roosevelt's words, 'the small powers might have rifles, but nothing more dangerous' 119 was rejected in favour of one in which all of the United Nations would possess a level of arms commensurate with their domestic and, more significantly, their international responsibilities. This constituted a fundamental reassessment of the great power-lesser power hierarchy.…”

Section: The Evolving Nature Of Attitudes Toward Post-war Hierarchymentioning

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From ‘Peace by Dictation’ to International Organisation: Great Power Responsibility and the Creation of the United Nations

Morris¹

2013

The International History Review

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This article examines the attitudes of US, British, and Soviet policy-makers as they planned for the forthcoming peace during the Second World War. It charts how they moved from planning a 'peace by dictation' of the great powers, to planning one which would be based on a model of collective security involving all members of the United Nations alliance. The latter plan would reflect both the great powers' special responsibilities for maintaining international peace and security and the stake which lesser powers had in such a venture. In addressing these historical developments the article employs two concepts familiar to International Relations scholarship, namely concert and hierarchy. It shows how the understandings which the principal post-war planners had of these conceptsand crucially of their inter-relationship -changed over time and the consequences of these changes. The article makes two core claims: firstly, that as post-war planning progressed, the attitudes of the Big Three towards the acceptable nature of the great power-lesser power hierarchy changed radically; and secondly, that the structure and nature of today's United Nations Organisation is in significant part a consequence of these changes.

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