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 Andrew Webster is the Innovative Universities European Union Centre Lecturer in Modern European History at Murdoch University. At Murdoch since July 2006, he teaches the IUEU Centre’s collaborative unit on the European Union as well as several other units on aspects of modern European history. His research has focused on the themes of internationalism, the growth of international organisations and disarmament, with a particular focus on the League of Nations, Anglo-French relations and European transnational identities. His most recent publications include chapters on the Entente Cordiale, the London Naval Conference of 1930, and the evolution of the internationalist ideal during the twentieth century. He is presently writing a history of the international disarmament process during the pre-nuclear age, stretching from the first Hague Conference to the birth of the atomic bomb, to be titled Of Men and Arms: A History of International Disarmament from 1899 to 1945.
Selected Publications
Books
- Andrew Webster, Allies of Yesterday: Britain, France and the crisis of Europe, 1928–1934 (forthcoming).
Articles
- Andrew Webster, ‘From Versailles to Geneva: The many forms of interwar disarmament’, Journal of Strategic Studies, 29, 2 (April 2006), 225–246.
- Andrew Webster, ‘The transnational dream: Politicians, diplomats and soldiers in the League of Nations’ pursuit of international disarmament, 1920–1938’, Contemporary European History, 14, 4 (November 2005), 493–518.
- Andrew Webster, ‘Making disarmament work: The implementation of the international disarmament provisions in the League of Nations Covenant, 1920–25’, Diplomacy & Statecraft, 16, 3 (September 2005), 551–569.
- Andrew Webster, ‘Piecing together the interwar disarmament puzzle: Trends and possibilities’, International Journal, series on ‘The Lessons of History’, 59, 1 (winter 2003–04), 187–198.
- Andrew Webster, ‘ “The Disenchantment Conference”: Frustration and humour at the World Disarmament Conference, 1932’, Diplomacy & Statecraft, 11, 3 (November 2000), 72–80.
Chapters
- Andrew Webster, ‘The London Naval Conference, 1930’, in R. Gerald Hughes, Peter Jackson and Len Scott (eds.), Exploring Intelligence Archives: Enquiries into the Secret State (Routledge, forthcoming 2007).
- Andrew Webster, ‘Internationalism’, in Gordon Martel (ed.), A Companion to International History, 1900–2001, (Blackwell: New York, 2007).
- Andrew Webster, ‘Entente and Argument: Britain, France and disarmament, 1899-1934’, in Antoine Capet (ed.), Britain, France and the Entente Cordiale since 1904 (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2006), 64-77.
- Andrew Webster, ‘An argument without end: Britain, France and the disarmament process, 1925–1934’, in Martin S. Alexander and William J. Philpott (eds.), Anglo-French Defence Relations Between the Wars (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2002), 49–71.
Papers
- ‘Entente, cordialité et désarmement’, conference on ‘One Century of Entente Cordiale: Dialogue, Conflicts and Perceptions outside France, 1904–2004’, Université de Rouen, November 2004.
- ‘The United States and the League of Nations: The case of disarmament, 1920–1934’, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, annual meeting, University of Texas at Austin, June 2004.
- ‘Germany, the League of Nations and the enforcement of disarmament in the 1920s’, International Studies Association, 45th annual conference, Montreal, March 2004.
- ‘Creating international disarmament: The implementation of the disarmament provisions in the League of Nations Covenant’, conference on ‘The Versailles Settlement: Enforcement, Compliance, Contested Identities’, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, September 2003.
- ‘The rise and fall of international arbitration, 1919–1935’, British International History Group, 15th annual conference, University of Nottingham, September 2003.
- ‘Reinventing security: The problem of disarmament in France during the early 1920s’, Society for the Study of French History, 17th annual conference, University of Nottingham, April 2003.
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Current Research projects
- The history of the international disarmament process during the pre-nuclear era: ‘From The Hague to Hiroshima’
- The Briand Plan for European Federal Union of 1929-1930
- The League of Nations and the evolution of internationalism during the 20th century
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Other Contributions and Distinctions:
- Member of steering committee for IUEU Centre and Murdoch University conference on ‘Security and Contemporary Asia’, early 2009
- Visiting Research Fellow, University of Western Australia, 2004-05
- Junior Research Fellow, Cambridge University, 2000-04: taught European history and international relations, including supervising M.Phil. dissertations on modern European history
- Edited special sections of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs on the future of the China-Taiwan relationship, 2001 and 2002
- Thornton Graduate Scholarship in History, Pembroke College, Cambridge
- Member of the British International History Group, the British Commission for Military History, the Army Records Society, the Australian Historical Association, and the History Teachers Association of Western Australia
- Program facilitator, STS Leeuwin (Fremantle): assist with voyages and lecture on maritime history
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