B.J.C. McKercher

Publications

Livres

• The Britain, America, and the Special Relationship since 1941 (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017), 205 pp. 207
• Transition of Power: Britains Loss of Global Preeminence to the United States, 1930-1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 402.
• Esme Howard: A Diplomatic Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 482.
• The Second Baldwin Government and the United States, 1924-1929: attitudes and diplomacy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. 271.

En préparation

• Crown of Thorns: British Foreign Policy and Its Makers, 1919-1939
• Avec R. Prete, co-rédacteur, Strategic Planning and the Origins of the First World War: New Perspectives on the Centenary of the July Crisis (Kingston, Montréal: Queens-McGill University Press).

Ouvrages dirigés

• editor, The Handbook of Diplomacy and Statecraft (London: Routledge, 2011), 489 pp.
• avec D.J. Moss, co-rédacteur, Shadow and Substance in British Foreign Policy, 1895-1939. Essays in honour of the late Professor C.J. Lowe (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1984), pp. 280.
• avec E.J. Errington, co-rédacteur, The Vietnam War as History (New York: Praeger, 1990), pp. 196.
• editor, Anglo-American Relations in the 1920s: the struggle for supremacy (London et Edmonton: Macmillans et la University of Alberta Press, 1991), pp. 242.
• avec K.E. Neilson, co-rédacteur, Go Spy the Land: Military Intelligence in History (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992), pp. 205.
• editor, Arms Limitation and Disarmament, 1899-1939: restraints on war (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992), pp. 248
• avec A.H. Ion, co-rédacteur, Military Heretics: studies in the unorthodox in military leadership (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993), pp. 246.
• avec L. Aronsen, co-rédacteur, The North Atlantic Powers in a Changing World: Anglo-American-Canadian Relations, 1903-1956 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996), pp. 298.
• avec Michael Dockrill, co-rédacteur, Diplomacy and World Power: Studies in British Foreign Policy, 1890-1951 Un festschrift pour Zara Steiner pour sa retraite. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 271.
• avec M.A. Hennessey, co-rédacteur, The Operational Art: Developments in the Theory of War (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997), pp. 220.
• avec R. Legault, co-rédacteur, Military Planning and the Origins of the Second World War in Europe (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000), pp.208.
• E. Goldstein et B.J.C. McKercher, eds., Power and Stability. British Foreign Policy, 1865-1965) (London: Frank Cass, 2003), pp.348.
• M.A. Hennessy et B.J.C. McKercher, eds., War in the Twentieth Century. Reflections at Century's End (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003), 245 pp.

Autres publications

• ‘Economic Warfare’, dans Hew Strachan, ed., Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War, New Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 119-133.
• ‘The Democratization of Central and Eastern Europevas a British Strategic Objective, 1918–1925/Die Demokratisierung der Mittel-und Osteuropa als britischer Ideal nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg’, dans H. Rumpler, and U. Harmat, eds., Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848-1918, Bd. XII: Bewältigte Vergangenheit? Die nationale und internationale Historiografie zum Untergang der Habsburgermonarchie als ideelle Grundlage für die Neuordnung Europas (Wien: Kommission für die Geschichte der Habsburgermonarchie, 2018), 331-58.
• ‘Economic Warfare’, dans Hew Strachan, ed., Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War, New Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 119-133.
• ‘Strategy and Foreign Policy in Great Britain, 1930-1938: From the Pursuit of the Balance of Power to Appeasement’, dans Christopher Baxter, M.L. Dockrill, et Keith Hamilton, ed., Britain in Global Politics, Volume I: From Gladstone to Churchill, 1900-1945 (London: Palgrave, 2013), 153-74.
• ‘The War Office and the British Army Field Force: Building for the Continental Commitment, 1933-1939’, dans Harold Raugh, ed, Past Through Present: Thoughts on Military History at the Strategic, Operational, and Tactical Levels of War (Vienna: Heeresgeschichtlichen Museums, 2013), 121-36.
• ‘Prologue: The International Order and the New Century’, dans B.J.C. McKercher, ed., The Handbook of Diplomacy and Statecraft (London: Routledge, 2011), ix-xxviii
• Transition of Power: Britains Loss of Global Preeminence to the United States, 1930-1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 402. Paperback.
• Esme Howard: A Diplomatic Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 482. Paperback.
• The Second Baldwin Government and the United States, 1924-1929: attitudes and diplomacy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 271. Paperback
• avec Michael Dockrill, co-rédacteur, Diplomacy and World Power: Studies in British Foreign Policy, 1890-1951. Un festschrift pour Zara Steiner pour sa retraite. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 271. Broché.
• avec L. Aronsen, co-rédacteur, The North Atlantic Powers in a Changing World: Anglo-American-Canadian Relations, 1903-1956 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996), pp. 298. Broché.
• avec D.J. Moss, co-rédacteur, Shadow and Substance in British Foreign Policy, 1895-1939. Essays in honour of the late Professor C.J. Lowe (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1984), pp. 280. Broché.

Articles

• ‘Anschluss: The Chamberlain Government and the First Test of Appeasement, February–March 1938’ International History Review, 39/2(2017), 274-94.
• ‘Kanada’, dans E.A. Schmidl, hrsg., ‘Was sagt uns der Erste Weltkrieg heute? Führende Militärhistoriker aus 21 Staaten berichten‘, ISS Aktuell, 3(2014), p. 8.
• ‘Canada and the Second World War’ [Review article], Cercles. Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone (Février 2014)
• Deterrence and the European Balance of Power: The Field Force and British Grand Strategy, 1934-1938, English Historical Review, 123(2008).
• avec Sonia Enjamio, Brighter Futures, Better Times: Britain, the Empire, and Anglo-American Economic Competition in Cuba, 1898-1920', Diplomacy and Statecraft, 18(2007), 663-687.
• A Certain Irritation: The White House, the State Department, and the Desire for a Naval Settlement with Great Britain, 1927-1930', Diplomatic History, 31(2007), 829-63.
• The Foreign Office, 1930-1939: Strategy, Permanent Interests, and National Security, Contemporary British History, 18)2004), 87-109.
• Austen Chamberlain and the Continental Balance of Power: Strategy, Stability, and the League of Nations, 1924-29', Diplomacy and Statecraft, 14(2003), 207-36.
• avec Erik Goldstein, Power and Stability in British Foreign Policy, 1865-1965', Diplomacy and Statecraft, 14(2003), 1-22.
• avec Catherine Krull, The Press, Public Opinion, Arms Limitation, and Government Policy in Britain, 1932-1934: Some Preliminary Observation, Diplomacy and Statecraft, 13(2002), 103-36.
• avec M.L. Roi, Ideals and Punch-Bags: Conflicting Views of the Balance of Power and Their Influence on Interwar British Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Statecraft, 12(2001), 47-78.
• From Disarmament to Rearmament: British Civil-Military Relations and Policy-Making, 1933-1936', Defence Studies, 1(2001), 21-48.
• Reckoning with the Myth of the American Expeditionary Force: The United States and the Allied War Coalition, 1917-1918', Reviews in American History, 23(1995), 284-89.
• The Last Old Diplomat: Sir Robert Vansittart and the Verities of British Foreign Policy, 1903-1930', Diplomacy and Statecraft, 6(1995), 1-38.
• The Politics of Naval Disarmament in Britain in the 1920s, Diplomacy and Statecraft, Vol..4, No.3(1993), 35-59.
• "No Eternal Friends or Enemies": British Defence Policy and the Problem of the United States, 1919-1939', Canadian Journal of History, 28(1993), 257-93.
• The Paths of Reason and Peace: Esme Howard's Unpublished Manuscript on "Paderewski. Musician B Patriot B Statesman", Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 41(1993), 81-100.
• The Richness and Diversity of International History: the new "Guides to Research and Research Materials", Canadian Journal of History, 27(1992), 521-31.
• From Enmity to Cooperation: the second Baldwin government and the improvement of Anglo-American relations, November 1928-June 1929', Albion, 24(1992), 64-87.
• "Our Most Dangerous Enemy": Great Britain Pre-eminent in the 1930s, International History Review, 13(1991), 751-83.
• Reaching for the Brass Ring: recent historiography of American foreign relations in the interwar period, Diplomatic History, 15(1991), 565-98.
• Diplomatic Equipoise: The Lansdowne Foreign Office, the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, and the global balance of power, Canadian Journal of History, 24(1989), 299-340.
• Wealth, Power, and the New International Order: Britain and the American Challenge in the 1920s, Diplomatic History, 12(1988), 411-41.
• "A dose of fascismo": Esme Howard in Spain, 1919-1924', International History Review, 9(1987), 555-85.
• Belligerent Rights in 1927-1929: Foreign Policy Versus Naval Policy in the Second Baldwin Government, Historical Journal, 29(1986), 963-74.
• A Sane and Sensible Diplomacy: Austen Chamberlain, Japan, and the Naval Balance of Power in the Pacific Ocean, 1924-1929', Canadian Journal of History, 21(1986), 187-213.
• Austen Chamberlain's Control of British Foreign Policy, 1924-1929', International History Review, 6(1984), 570-91.
• avec K.E. Neilson, "The Triumph of Unarmed Forces": Sweden and the Allied Blockade of Germany, 1914-1917', Journal of Strategic Studies, 7(1984), 178-99.
• A British View of American Foreign Policy: The Settlement of Blockade Claims, 1924-1927', International History Review, 3(1981), 358-84.

Articles dans des livres de références

• Esme William Howard, first Baron of Penrith, dans C. Matthews, ed., The Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
• Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay, dans C. Matthews, ed., The Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

Chapitres de livre

• Post-War Security, the League of Nations Question, and British Foreign Policy, 1917-1922, dans M. apolvi, M. Stanová, et A, Rakoto, eds., Exiting War. Post-Conflict Military Operations. 6th International Conference, Military History Working Group, Bratislava, Slovakia (Bratislav, Château de Vicennes: Vojenský historický ústav, 2007), 259-68.
• From Isolation to Intervention: Anglo-Canadian Defense Relations from the Canadian Perspective, 1935-1939, dans R.S. Rush et W.W. Epley, eds., Multinational Operations: Alliances and International Military Cooperation. Past and Future. Actes du colloque, Fifth Workshop of the Partnership for Peaces Consortiums Military History Working Group, Vienne, Autriche (Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 2006), 85-91.
• The Foreign Office, 1930-1939: Strategy, Permanent Interests, and National Security, dans G. Johnson, ed., The Foreign Office and British Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century (London: Routledge, 2005), 87-109.
• The Limitations of the Politician-Strategist: Winston Churchill and the German Threat, 1933-1939', dans John Maurer, ed., Churchill and Strategic Dilemmas Before the World Wars. Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel (London: Frank Cass, 2003), 88-120.
• avec M.A. Hennessy, danstroduction, dans M.A. Hennessy et B.J.C. McKercher, eds., War in the Twentieth Century. Reflections at Century's End (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003), 1-18.
• Austen Chamberlain and the Continental Balance of Power: Strategy, Stability, and the League of Nations, 1924-29', dans E. Goldstein et B.J.C. McKercher, eds., Power and Stability. British Foreign Policy, 1865-1965 (London: Frank Cass, 2003), 207-36.
• avec Erik Goldstein, Power and Stability in British Foreign Policy, 1865-1965', dans E. Goldstein et B.J.C. McKercher, eds., Power and Stability. British Foreign Policy, 1865-1965 (London: Frank Cass, 2003), 1-22.
• Cold War North Atlantic Triangle: Canada, Great Britain, and the United States, 1945-1990', dans A. Capet, ed., The "Special Relationship". La " relation spéciale " entre le Royaume-Uni et les États-Unis (Rouen: University of Rouen Press, 2003), 137-67.
• The Canadian Way of Warfare, 1939-1945', dans B. Horn, ed., Forging a Nation: Perpectives on the Canadian Military Experience (St Catherines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing, 2002), 123-34.
• Reaching for the Brass Ring: The Recent Historiography of Interwar American Foreign Relations, dans Michael J. Hogan, ed., Paths to Power: The Historiography of American Foreign Relations to 1941 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp.176-223.
• Lost Opportunities ; The Diplomacy of "Isolationism" in the 1930s, dans Jonathan M. Nielson, ed., Speculations on American Foreign Policy and Diplomatic History: Interests, Ideals, and Power (Westport, CT: Praeger,2000), 67-107
• Toward the Post-War Settlement: Winston Churchill and the Second Quebec Conference, dans D.L. Woolner, ed., The Second Quebec Conference Revisited; Waging War, Formulating Peace: Canada, Great Britain, and the United States, 1944-1945 (New York: St. Martin's Press et la Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, 1998), 17-48.
• Economic Warfare, dans Hew Strachan, ed., Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 119-133.
• Old Diplomacy and New: The Foreign Office in the Interwar Period, dans Dockrill and McKercher, Diplomacy and World Power, 79-114.
• The League of Nations and the Problem of Collective Security, 1919-1936', dans U.M. Rüser, ed., The League of Nations, 1920-1946. Organization and Accomplishments Geneva: the United Nations Library/League of Nations Archives, 1996), 66-73.
• avec L. Aronsen, Introduction: The North Atlantic Powers in a Changing World: Anglo-American-Canadian Relations, 1903-1973', dans McKercher and Aronsen, North Atlantic Powers, 3-11.
• avec M.L. Dockrill, Preface, dans Dockrill and McKercher, Diplomacy and World Power, xiii-xix.
• World Power and Isolationism: the North Atlantic Triangle and the crises of the 1930s, dans McKercher and Aronsen, North Atlantic Powers, 110-46.
• Churchill, the European balance of power, and the USA, dans R.A.C. Parker, ed., Sir Winston Churchill. Studies in Statesmanship (London: Brasseys, 1995), 42-64.
• The Politics of Naval Arms Limitation in Britain in the 1920s, dans Erik Goldstein and John Maurer, eds., The Washington Conference, 1921-22. Naval Rivalry, East Asian Stability and the Road to Pearl Harbor (London: Frank Cass, 1994), 35-59.
• "Shield of Memory": the memoirs of the British Foreign-Policy-Making Elite, 1919-1939', dans G.W. Egerton, ed., Political Memoir: Essays on the Politics of Memory (London: Frank Cass, 1994), 188-206.
• avec A.H. Ion, Introduction: Military Heretics, dans McKercher and Ion, Military Heretics, 1-10.
• Of Horns and Teeth: the Preparatory Commission and the World Disarmament Conference, 1926-1934', dans McKercher, Arms Limitation and Disarmament, 173-201.
• Introduction: Arms Limitation, Disarmament, and restraints on war, 1899-39', dans McKercher, Arms Limitation and Disarmament, vii-xvi.
• "A greater and higher ideal": Esme Howard, Imperial unity, and Canadian autonomy in foreign policy, 1924-1930', dans Michael Graham Fry, editor, Power, Personalities, and Policies. Essays Honouring D. Cameron Watt (London: Frank Cass, 1992), 107-43.
• avec E.J. Errington, Introduction: The Vietnam War as History, dans Errington et McKercher, The Vietnam War as History, pp.xi-xiv.
• "The deep and latent distrust": the British Official Mind and the United States, 1919-1929', dans McKercher, Anglo-American Relations in the 1920s, pp. 208-37.
• Between Two Giants: Canada, the Coolidge Naval Conference, and Anglo-American Relations in 1927', dans McKercher, Anglo-American Relations in the 1920s, pp. 81-124.
• Introduction: The Struggle for Supremacy in Anglo-American Relations in the 1920s, dans McKercher, Anglo-American Relations in the 1920s, pp. 1-16.
• Afterword: Foreign Policy and Military Planning -- The Cold War and National Defence, 1945-1960', dans R.G. Haycock et K.E. Neilson, eds., The Cold War and National Defence (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990), pp.185-93.
• The British Diplomatic Service in the United States and the Chamberlain Foreign Office's Perception of Domestic America: images, reality, and diplomacy, dans McKercher et Moss, Shadow and Substance in British Foreign Policy, pp. 221-47.
• avec D.J. Moss, Introduction, Shadow and Substance in British Foreign Policy, pp. 1-18.

Travaux récents

• British Foreign Policy and the Lethality of the German Threat, 1895-1939, The Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and the Conflict Studies and Human Rights Programme, Université d'Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, 6 mars 2009.
• Eyre Crowe and British Blockade Policy, 1914-1918:Co-ordinating Foreign and Naval Policy in Wartime, au Partnership for Peace Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 22 avril 2008.
• The First Test of Appeasement: British Views of the Anschluss, au colloque, 1938 Krisenjahr in einem Jahrhundert der Krisen, Austrian National Defence Academy: Institute for Strategy and Security Policy, Vienne, Autriche, 6 mars 2008.
• The Anglo-American Special Relationship, au Centro de Estudios sobre Estados Unidos, Universidad de La Habana, Havana, Cuba, 22 février 2008.
• The Persistence of the Great Powers, to Strategic Operations Analysis, Strategic Joint Staff, Department of National Defence. Ottawa, 7 février 2008.
• The Realities of Power Revisited: Anglo-American Relations in the Interwar Period, au International History Institute, Boston University, Boston Massachusetts, 25 avril 2007.
• The German Problem in British Foreign Policy, au European Studies Seminar, Department of History, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 17 avril 2007
• avec Sonia Enjamio, Anglo-American Economic Competition in Cuba, 1898-1939', International History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, Angleterre, 23 mai 2006.
• Sugar and Railroads: Britain, America, and Economic Competiton in Cuba, 1898-1919', Interdisciplinary Conference on Britain and the United States. Imperialism in Africa, the Caribbean, Central America, and the Middle East, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 15-18 mai 2006.
• Postwar Planning for Peace: The League of Nations and Allied War Aims, 1916-1919, au Partnership for Peace Conference, Bratislava, Slovakia, 7 avril 2006.
• Britain, Canada, and the Crises of the late 1930s, to the Partnership for Peace Conference, Vienne, Autriche, 5 avril 2005.
• Apuntes preliminares sobre las relaciones de Cuba con Canadá y Gran Bretaña, to the Seminario de Estudios Canadienses, Cáthedra des Estudios sobre Canadá, Universidad de La Habana, 18 mars 2005..
• Shade and Light: Reflexions on the German Question in British Foreign Policy, 1895-1939', The 2004 Excellence in Research Lecture, au Collège militaire royal du Canada, Kingston, Ontario, 25 janvier 2005.
• Anglo-Canadian Defence Relations, 1935-1939, au International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, 14 janvier 2005.
• Strategy and Political Ambition: Churchill;, the National Government, and the German Threat, 1933-1939', au Guest Lecture Series, Department of History, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 29 janvier 2004.
• The Foreign Office, 1930-1939: Strategy, Permanent Interests, and National Security, au Conference on the Foreign Office in the Twentieth Century, dansstitute of Contemporary British History, University of London, 20 juin 2003
• The Continental Commitment and British Foreign Policy: the Strategy of the National Government, 1933-1938', au Military History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, Londres, Angleterre, 4 février 2003.
• The National Government and the Continental Commitment, 1934-1936', au Scottish Centre for War Studies, Glasgow University, 28 janvier 2003.
• The European Strategy of the Second Baldwin Government, 1924-1929', au Modern History Seminar, Department of History, University of the West of England, Bristol, England, 26 novembre 2002.
• Neville Chamberlain versus Winston Churchill: Domestic Politics, National Strategy, and the Conservative Party in the 1930s, au Military History Seminar, All Souls College, Oxford University, 13 novembre 2002.
• Cold War North Atlantic Triangle: Canada, Great Britain, and the United States, 1945-1990', au Conference on the Anglo-American Special Relationship, University of Rouen, Rouen, France, 6-7 novembre 2002
• Austen Chamberlain and the European Balance of Power: Stability, Strategy, and the League of Nations, 1924-1929', au International History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, Londres, Angleterre, 14 octobre 2002.
• Winston Churchill Confronts Germany: The Conservative Party and Foreign Policy, 1933-1939', au British International History Group Conference, University of Dundee, Dundee, Écosse, 14 septembre 2002.
• The Reality of Power (Revisited): Anglo-American Relations in the 1930s, Keynote Address, au British International History Group Conference, University of Dundee, Dundee, Écosse, 13 septembre 2002.