Speaker: Louis M. Halewood, DPhil candidate, University of Oxford

Summary:  Between 1890 and 1914, strategic thinkers and policy makers in Britain, France, and the United States engaged in debates over the prospect of war, the role of maritime power, and the maintenance of peace.  These arguments explored the importance of co-operation in the international system and produced rudimentary ideas about collective security.  This paper analyses these visions of a future world order.

Biography:  Louis Halewood is a DPhil student and the John Roberts MC3 (Great War) Scholar at Merton College, Oxford.  He holds a BA in War Studies from King’s College London and an MA in History from the  University of Calgary, where he was supervised by  Dr John Ferris.  His present research, supervised by Dr Nicholas Rodger and Dr David Morgan-Owen, examines the relationship between maritime power and the changing world order between 1890-1922.

Chair: Dr Alan James, Senior Lecturer in War Studies

Hosted by: the Laughton Naval History Unit