All Outputs (12)

The Lake Mohonk Conferences on International Arbitration (1895-1916): Evoking and Mobilizing an ‘International Mind’ (2023)
Journal Article

Between 1895 and 1916, a Conference on International Arbitration met annually at Lake Mohonk, New York, seeking to implement arbitration as a substitute for war. This article considers the aims, effects, and limitations of these conferences, includin... Read More about The Lake Mohonk Conferences on International Arbitration (1895-1916): Evoking and Mobilizing an ‘International Mind’.

‘Allowed to Serve, Not to Speak’? The Role of Women in International Peace Activism, 1880-1920 (2020)
Journal Article

As the twentieth century dawned, fledgling transnational networks of peace activists, including the International Peace Bureau and the Interparliamentary Union, grew in prominence, not least in Europe. Impetus came from the United States, notably via... Read More about ‘Allowed to Serve, Not to Speak’? The Role of Women in International Peace Activism, 1880-1920.

Public opinion and twentieth-century diplomacy: a global perspective (2020)
Book

Public Opinion and 20th-Century Diplomacy explores both the influence of public opinion on diplomatic decision making in international history, and its emergence as a legitimate field of study for international historians. The book uses five case... Read More about Public opinion and twentieth-century diplomacy: a global perspective.

'Our expectations were perhaps too high': disarmament, citizen activism, and the 1907 Hague Peace Conference (2018)
Journal Article

Historical assessments of the 1907 Hague Peace Conference, like its 1899 predecessor, are usually framed in verdicts of success or failure. Although some specialist accounts rightly portray the Hague meetings as both successful and important, most an... Read More about 'Our expectations were perhaps too high': disarmament, citizen activism, and the 1907 Hague Peace Conference.

Public Opinion (2018)
Book Chapter

Public opinion is a notoriously slippery concept, but it has long been understood that it wields at least some influence on diplomacy. Over several centuries, conceptions of public opinion have evolved. Longstanding perceptions of public opinion as i... Read More about Public Opinion.

Édouard Daladier (2018)
Book Chapter

The French Media and the Forging of a Franco-British Alliance in the late 1930s (2017)
Journal Article

This article explores the interconnections between the media in France and the emergence of a Franco-British alliance on the eve of World War Two, emphasising how newspaper, radio and newsreel coverage helped mould British perceptions of France durin... Read More about The French Media and the Forging of a Franco-British Alliance in the late 1930s.

Public opinion, the Press, and the failed Anglo-Franco-Soviet negotiations of 1939 (2017)
Journal Article

For nearly 80 years, historians have debated whether the western powers or the USSR should be blamed for the failure of the Anglo-Franco-Soviet negotiations in 1939. This rather tired debate features here, but only in the background. Instead, these n... Read More about Public opinion, the Press, and the failed Anglo-Franco-Soviet negotiations of 1939.

British peace activism and 'new' diplomacy: revisiting the 1899 Hague Peace Conference (2015)
Journal Article

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.... Read More about British peace activism and 'new' diplomacy: revisiting the 1899 Hague Peace Conference.

French public attitudes towards the prospect of war in 1938-1939: `pacifism' or `war anxiety'? (2007)
Journal Article

This article challenges the received wisdom that French public opinion was infused with pacifist sentiment during the 1930s, and that this sentiment in turn contributed to the French defeat of 1940. It will suggest that French public attitudes toward... Read More about French public attitudes towards the prospect of war in 1938-1939: `pacifism' or `war anxiety'?.

International history and the study of public opinion: towards methodological clarity
Journal Article

International historians have long been fascinated by public opinion and its influence on policymaking, citing it frequently as one of the many factors that inform foreign policy choices. However, historians – and international historians in particul... Read More about International history and the study of public opinion: towards methodological clarity.

Franco-British relations and the question of conscription in Britain, 1938-1939
Journal Article

This article examines the relationship interaction between the French campaign for the introduction of British conscription during 1938-39 and the ebbs and flows of British public opinion on the same issue. In particular, it will demonstrate how Fren... Read More about Franco-British relations and the question of conscription in Britain, 1938-1939.