Dumbarton Oaks: The Origins of the United Nations and the Search for Postwar Security

Hilderbrand explains why, with the Second World War moving toward an Allied victory in the summer of 1944, the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China began to give greater priority to protecting their own sovereignty than to preventing another global conflict. At Dumbarton Oaks, therefore, they essentially turned away from the organization of a forceful and active United Nations, creating a world body that created only the illusion of a powerful peacekeeping agency.

Author: Robert C. Hilderbrand
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 02/01/2001
Pages: 332
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.08h x 6.24w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780807849507

About the Author
Hilderbrand, Robert C.: - Robert Hilderbrand is professor of history at University of South Dakota.