Liberalism and the Establishment of Collective Security in British Foreign Policy (The Alexander Prize Essay)

Abstract

Perhaps no phrase is so evocative of inter-war British foreign policy as is ‘collective security.’ Yet surprisingly, despite this obvious centrality—what political figure did not at one time or another express his views regarding collective security?—there remains a missing dimension regarding our understanding of the part collective security played in British foreign policy during the critical decades of the nineteen-twenties and nineteen-thirties.