Marking the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor: How the US created the UN to win the war and the implications for IR

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• Dr Dan Plesch, Director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy School of Oriental and African Studies
• Monday 14 November 2011, 17:00-18:30
• Senior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

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The Declaration by United Nations of 1.1.42 created a military political alliance of United Nations that led up to the Charter of 1945 serving to unify the alliance at home and abroad with a series of political programmes including human rights and other soft power organisations under the UN banner. These were critical to the outcome of the war and to the shape of the ensuing peace. Thus US and other states pursued a more fully liberal internationalist policy than at any other time for reasons of realist necessity. The documented events of the wartime UN raise other important issues for related issues within the discipline, not least its historiography. The assumption that the League having failed states resorted to narrow conceptions of the national interest to which the UN is added at the end of the war is not supported by the facts. The argument is developed in Dr Plesch’s book America, Hitler and the UN 

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