BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk//
X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Marking the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor: How the US created t
 he UN to win the war and the implications for IR - Dr Dan Plesch\, Direct
 or of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy School of Orienta
 l and African Studies
DTSTART:20111114T170000Z
DTEND:20111114T183000Z
UID:TALK33473@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Or Rosenboim
DESCRIPTION:The Declaration by United Nations of 1.1.42 created a militar
 y 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 politica
 l programmes including human rights and other soft power organisations und
 er 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 rea
 list necessity. The documented events of the wartime UN raise other import
 ant issues for related issues within the discipline\, not least its histor
 iography. The assumption that the League having failed states resorted to 
 narrow conceptions of the national interest to which the UN is added at th
 e end of the war is not supported by the facts. The argument is developed 
 in Dr Plesch's book America\, Hitler and the UN 
LOCATION:Senior Common Room\, 17 Mill Lane\, Cambridge CB2 1RX
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR