Esta conferência de um dia será organizada pelo Foreign and Commonwealth Office e pela London School of Economics e focar-se-à na decisão de entrada britânica na Grande Guerra, assim como no papel de Sir Edward Grey, Secretário dos Negócios Estrangeiros, figura eminente dessa conjuntura.
A organização refere: «Many of the standard surveys and interpretations of this topic are almost a generation old but the larger debate about war origins has continued to develop. Niall Ferguson’s The Pity of War (1998) posed provocative questions about British involvement. More recently a succession of pre-centenary studies have attempted to dethrone the ‘German paradigm’ or concentration on German responsibility that characterized the Fritz Fischer debate in the 1960s, and to suggest that responsibility was shared or even lay predominantly with the Triple Entente. Meanwhile Grey himself remains an enigmatic figure in the conduct of British foreign policy. Historiographical developments, as well as the centenary of the start of the War, therefore suggest that a reappraisal of pre-war British diplomacy is overdue.
The conference will examine not only the July-August 1914 crisis but also the pre-war decade of relations between Britain and the Central Powers and between Britain and the Entente. It will consider how other Powers viewed British policy as well as how Britain viewed them. And although its focus will be on Grey’s personality and leadership, the Foreign Office and the diplomatic corps, attention will be given as necessary to other parts of Whitehall, to Westminster politics, and to British public opinion more broadly.»
Entre os conferencistas encontramos nomes como: Roy Bridge, Christopher Clark, Keith Hamilton, John Keiger, Annika Mombauer, Thomas Otte, Keith Robbins, Richard Smith, Zara Steiner e Keith Wilson.
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