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British peace activism and 'new' diplomacy: revisiting the 1899 Hague Peace Conference

Hucker, Daniel

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This analysis provides a re-appraisal of the 1899 Hague Conference by looking more closely at how citizen activists—notably in Britain but also transnationally—used it as a forum through which to press their agenda onto politicians and diplomatists. In so doing, this assembly existed as a stepping-stone between the ‘old’ diplomacy of the nineteenth century and the ‘new’ diplomacy of the twentieth. Peace activists identified and harnessed a growing body of progressive public opinion—on both a domestic and international scale—in the hope of compelling governments to take the necessary steps towards realising their ambitions of peace, disarmament, and international arbitration. Although the tangible outcomes of the 1899 Conference were limited, the precedents it established not only paved the way for further advances in international law, but also facilitated ever closer public and press scrutiny of international affairs into the twentieth century.

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Hucker, D. (2015). British peace activism and 'new' diplomacy: revisiting the 1899 Hague Peace Conference. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 26(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2015.1067509

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jan 1, 2015
Deposit Date Sep 16, 2015
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Diplomacy & Statecraft
Electronic ISSN 0959-2296
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 26
Issue 3
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2015.1067509
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/988477
Publisher URL http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09592296.2015.1067509

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