Constructing a Post-War Order: The Rise of US Hegemony and the Origins of the Cold War

Cover
Contents
Preface
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
	Revisionism: a Brief Introduction
	The British Commonwealth and Post-War Order
	The Organisation of This Study
1. The Imperial World
	Imperial Systems
	Commonwealth
	Good Neighbours
	Anglo-American Cooperation
	Aviation and the Evolving Idea of World Order
	The Messy Business of Integration
2. The Trouble with American Power
	Aviation and Regionalism
	The Canadian Analysis of American Power
	The Canadian Conundrum
	Towards a Canadian Policy
	Australia, New Zealand and the Big Two
	Redefining Imperial Frontiers
	Regional Solutions
	Smuts and Britain
	Smuts and Africa
	Greater South Africa and Aviation
3. Planning for Post-War Order
	Organising the Peace: the New Global Technocracy
	The Peculiar Challenge of the Soviet Union
	Post-Hostilities Planning in Britain
	Canada
	Australia
	New Zealand
	South Africa
4. Visions of Post-War Order
	Britain and the 'Four Power' Plan
	The Military Implications of a General Settlement
	British Policy: Core Questions
	South Africa: Hinge of the Commonwealth?
	Canada: Squaring the Quartersphere
	America and the Post-War Settlement
	The General Settlement and Canadian Security
	Defending Australia
	Defining Australia Aspirations
	Australia and Collective Security
	New Zealand Post-War Concerns
	The Canberra Conference and After
	New Zealand and Collective Security
5. The British Commonwealth in World Affairs
	Britain and the Dominions
	Diplomatic Drift
	British Preparations
	The Dominion Premiers' Meeting
	Smuts and Atomic Diplomacy
	Dumbarton Oaks
	Canadian Lobbying
	The Canadian Response
	The Australian Response
	New Zealand
	The Wellington Conference
6. Functional Negotiations
	Functional Convergence in Planning for Post-War Aviation
	The Commonwealth between Britain and America
	The Chicago Conference
	Towards Multilateralism
	The London Technical Talks
	The Council
	Broad Commonwealth Agreement
7. The Great Powers and Collective Security
	Yalta
	The San Francisco Conference
	The Preamble
	Smuts' Shrinking Circle
	The Veto
	The Security Council
	The General Assembly
	Trusteeship
	Power and the New International Society
8. Failure
	The London Preparatory Commission
	The Executive Committee
	The Preparatory Commission
	The General Assembly: 10 January to 15 February, 1946
	Council Membership and Elections
	Trusteeship
	Trends in the General Assembly
	The General Assembly: 23 October to 17 December, 1946
	The Decline of Australian Foreign Policy
	The Defeat of Smuts: Southwest Africa
	The Commonwealth and the Revolt against the West
9. Regional Integration, Imperial Disintegration
	The Intractable Problems of Post-War Security
	The Post-War Disposition of Territory: the South Pacific
	The Post-War Disposition of Territory: the Italian Colonies
	The 1946 Dominion Premiers' Meeting
	The Commonwealth and Military Liaison
	The Commonwealth and Scientific Liaison
	Pacific Bases
	The Italian Colonies
	The Peace Treaties
	Colonial Retreat
	Canada and Commonwealth Defence
	Towards the Brussels Pact
Conclusion
	Notes on the Political Economy of Post-War Order
Notes
Bibliography
Index