Views of War: Britain Before the ‘Great War’ – and After

Abstract

Preface to 'Views of War'Being an outsider and a recent arrival in Cambridge, I knew very little about its informal network of clubs, meetings and seminars that were such an essential part of the social and intellectual life of the university. It was not at all surprising that I had never heard of the British Committee on the Theory of International Politics, founded in 1959 and funded mainly by the Rockefeller Foundation. I had no knowledge of its distinguished rostrum of speakers which included