Chatham House

The First Hundred Years
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-19-898496-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the history and impact of Chatham House, also known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs, which was founded in 1920 and has been based in St. James's Square, central London, since 1923. Chatham House soon acquired a reputation as one of the world's leading think tanks on international affairs and has maintained this ever since, despite increasing competition at home and abroad. It has been a base for high-quality research as well as important meetings, including those held under the famous 'Chatham House rule', meaning that information disclosed may be used publicly but without attribution.

Chatham House covers the first 100 years of the Institute's history in three sections: between the two World Wars; the period from 1945 until the end of the Cold War; and the time from the fall of the Berlin Wall up to 2020. Using the Institute's archives as well as public documents, secondary works, and interviews where possible, the contributors have explored the main themes of Chatham House's work over the last century: empire, economic crisis and appeasement between the wars, post-war reconstruction, decolonisation, Europe and strategy after 1945, climate, identity politics, and the foreign policies of the UK and USA after 1989. The internal life of Chatham House, especially in terms of its directors and other key personalities, has also been given full attention.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cox, Michael

Hill, Christopher

May, Alex

Soper, Caroline

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cox, Michael

Hill, Christopher

May, Alex

Soper, Caroline

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Priscilla Roberts and Alex May: Chatham House: The first hundred years

- SECTION 1. Between two wars

- 1: Cornelia Navari: Chatham House in the 1920s: Beginning the enterprise

- 2: Martin Ceadel: Chatham House and the international crises of the 1930s

- 3: Patricia Clavin: Economic dependence and interdependence: Chatham House and interwar economics

- 4: Lucian M. Ashworth: Chatham House and the empire in the interwar period

- SECTION 2. The Second World War and the Cold War

- 5: Peter Wilson: Chatham House during the Second World War

- 6: Harold James: Chatham House, Bretton Woods, and the United Nations system

- 7: Sue Onslow: Chatham House and decolonization, 1949-1994

- 8: Inderjeet Parmar and Bamo Nouri: Race and class in the Cold War: Chatham House and the Board of Race Relations

- 9: Lawrence Freedman: An insider perspective on Chatham House, 1976-1982

- 10: Helen Parr: Chatham House and the challenges of Europe

- SECTION 3. Post-1989

- 11: Christopher Hill: Chatham House and British foreign policy, 1991 to the present

- 12: Michael Cox: From the American century to a post-American world?: Chatham House and the United States

- 13: Gregorio Bettiza: Identity politics, Islamism, and the 'war on terror': Chatham House and alternative visions of world politics

- 14: Robert Falkner: Chatham House and the global climate crisis

- Conclusion: Christopher Hill: A century of widening horizons: Chatham House, 1920-2020

- Appendix 1: Key Chatham House office holders

- Appendix 2: Biographical notes

- Introduction: Priscilla Roberts and Alex May: Chatham House: The first hundred years

- Section 1. Between two wars

- 1: Cornelia Navari: Chatham House in the 1920s: Beginning the enterprise

- 2: Martin Ceadel: Chatham House and the international crises of the 1930s

- 3: Patricia Clavin: Economic dependence and interdependence: Chatham House and interwar economics

- 4: Lucian M. Ashworth: Chatham House and the empire in the interwar period

- Section 2. The Second World War and the Cold War

- 5: Peter Wilson: Chatham House during the Second World War

- 6: Harold James: Chatham House, Bretton Woods, and the United Nations system

- 7: Sue Onslow: Chatham House and decolonization, 1949-1994

- 8: Inderjeet Parmar and Bamo Nouri: Race and class in the Cold War: Chatham House and the Board of Race Relations

- 9: Lawrence Freedman: An insider perspective on Chatham House, 1976-1982

- 10: Helen Parr: Chatham House and the challenges of Europe

- Section 3. Post-1989

- 11: Christopher Hill: Chatham House and British foreign policy, 1991 to the present

- 12: Michael Cox: From the American century to a post-American world?: Chatham House and the United States

- 13: Gregorio Bettiza: Identity politics, Islamism, and the 'war on terror': Chatham House and alternative visions of world politics

- 14: Robert Falkner: Chatham House and the global climate crisis

- Conclusion: Christopher Hill: A century of widening horizons: Chatham House, 1920-2020

- Appendix 1: Key Chatham House office holders

- Appendix 2: Biographical notes

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Cox was appointed to a Chair at the LSE in 2002, having previously held positions at the Queen's University of Belfast and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He was a founding Director of the Cold War Studies Centre at LSE in 2004 and LSE IDEAS in 2008, and is a Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Milan. He has served as editor of several journals including Irish Studies in International Affairs, Review of International Studies, and International Politics, and is the author, editor, and co-editor of over twenty-five books, including most recently a book of his own essays, The Post-Cold War World (Routledge, 2018), a centennial edition of John Maynard Keynes's The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), a new edition of E.H. Carr's 1945 classic, Nationalism and After (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), and Agonies of Empire: American Power from Clinton to Biden (Bristol University Press, 2022).

Christopher Hill is Emeritus Professor of International Relations in the University of Cambridge and an Emeritus Fellow of Sidney Sussex College (having been Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations from 2004 to 2016, and before that Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the LSE from 1991 to 2004). His recent publications include The National Interest in Question: Foreign Policy in Multicultural Societies (Oxford University Press, 2013), Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), The Future of British Foreign Policy: Security and Diplomacy in a World after Brexit (Polity, 2019), and the fourth edition of International Relations and the European Union, with Michael Smith and Sophie Vanhoonacker (Oxford University Press, 2023). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2007 and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Science in 2025.

Alex May has been a Research Editor (latterly Senior Research Editor) at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, a research project of the University of Oxford published by Oxford University Press, since 1998, responsible for commissioning and editing more than 7,000 entries. Since 1997 he has also been Honorary Secretary of The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, whose founders were closely involved in the founding of Chatham House. Among his publications are (as co-editor with Andrea Bosco) The Round Table, the Empire/Commonwealth and British Foreign Policy (Lothian Foundation Press, 1997), Britain and Europe since 1945 (Routledge, 1998), and (as editor) The Commonwealth and International Affairs (Routledge, 2010).

Caroline Soper was Editor of the Chatham House journal International Affairs from 1996 to 2015, and Series Editor of the Chatham House/Brookings Institution Press 'Insights' book series from 2015 to 2024, commissioning such books as Kier Giles's Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West (2019), and Reclaiming Human Rights in a Changing World Order, edited by Christopher Sabatini (2023). During her editorships she was an Associate Fellow of the Marjan Centre for the Study of Conservation and Conflict in the Department of War Studies, King's College London, curating a set of articles for IA on environmental insecurity and warfare. Among other responsibilities, she was the Chatham House representative on the Martin Wight Memorial Committee and the Advisory Board of the Annual Register. She is an editorial board member of the European Review of International Studies.