Talbot Imlay teaches in the history department at the Université Laval in Québec, Canada. He is the author of Facing the Second World War: Strategy, Politics, and Economics in Britain and France 1938-1940 (2003) and co-editor with Monica Duffy Toft of Fog of Peace and War Planning (2006). With Martin Horn he has just finished a book entitled The Politics of Industrial Collaboration: Ford France, Vichy and Nazi Germany during the Second World War.

• Introduction: The Practice of Socialist Internationalism 1: International Socialism at War, 1914-1918 2: Reconstituting the International, 1918-1923 3: European Socialists and the International Order, 1918-1925 4: The Quest for Disarmament, 1925-1933 5: European Socialists and Empire between the Wars Entr'acte: Socialist Internationalism during the 1930s 6: Reconstituting the International, 1940-1951 7: Constructing Europe, 1945-1960 8: The Cold War and European Security, 1950-1960 9: The Stakes of Decolonization, 1945-1960 Conclusion

By virtue of his archival research in twelve countries he has succeeded in producing an essential starting point for future students of these subjects who can regard this book as a reliable guide to the exchange of views between the parties concerned on many of the big issues of the period, such as the 1919 peace settlement, the Ruhr crisis of 1923, the Dawes Plan, European security, Imperialism and decolonization, European unity and the Cold War.