Keep the Peace at Home to Shape the Peace Abroad: A Study of Elite Influence on Winston Churchill and British Foreign Policy at the Yalta Conference, 1945
Journal: Democracy and Security
Year: 2024

As the end of World War II and a parliamentary election approached, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's wartime authority diminished. The erosion of influence at home could not have come at a worse time for Churchill abroad, who sought to rebuild a postwar world order at the February 1945 Yalta Conference to resurrect Britain's global influence. Exploiting the erosion of Churchill's unprecedented wartime powers, formal and fringe political elites pressured Churchill to align his postwar p