John Maynard Keynes and International Relations

Professor Donald Markwell, BEcon(Hons) Qld, MA, MPhil, DPhil Oxon, has been Warden of Trinity College since September 1997. He is also a Professorial Fellow of the Department of Political Science and the Centre for Public Policy in the University of Melbourne. From 1986 until joining Trinity, Professor Markwell was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and Lecturer in Politics at the University of Oxford. A Visiting Fellow at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, in 1984-85, and a Research Fellow at New College, Oxford, in 1985-86, he has held a number of other Visiting Fellowships and research positions. Professor Markwell was awarded the 1981 Rhodes Scholarship for Queensland.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Keynes as a classical liberal ; 3. The Paris Peace Conference and the need for international action ; 4. Appeals unanswered: from Amsterdam to Lausanne ; 5. Towards the middle way in theory: the inter-war evolution of Keynes's thought ; 6. Anglo-American co-operation for internationalism: Keynes's second world war vision for a post-war world ; 7. Conclusion

This is a book that will reward liberals (and many others) who are interested in Keynes's contribution to the understanding and the shaping of international relations in the twentieth century.