num_pages: 264
description: This is the story of Philip Kerr and a group of Oxford graduates that founded The Round Table ( Journal of International Affairs ) in 1910 and influenced British foreign policy over the following thirty years. As the principal thinker of the group, Kerr saw the need for a supra-national grouping and wanted to organize the British Empire into a federal superstate. The group also sought an Anglo-American alliance, and in 1939, joined a world federation movement that would help to inspire NATO after the war.Important questions raised by this group remain relevant today. Can a supra-national community impose laws and regulations on its members without its governing institutions being more fully accountable to a community-wide electorate? Can hostile nationalism be tamed with such a union. Can it reasonably exclude the United States?
language: English
title: Lothian: Philip Kerr and the Quest for World Order
titlecomplete: Lothian: Philip Kerr and the Quest for World Order (Contributions to the Study of World History)
characters: Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Praeger