B.J.C. McKercher, Ph.D.Professor

War Studies Post Graduate Degree Programme

With his areas of specialisation encompassing modern international relations history, 19th and 20th Century British and American foreign policy, and modern British and modern European history, Professor McKercher is a graduate of the London School of Economics. He has written The Second Baldwin Government and the United States, 1924-1929: attitudes and diplomacy (Cambridge UP, 1984), Esme Howard. A Diplomatic Biography (Cambridge UP, 1989); and Transition of Power: Britain's Loss of Global Preeminence to the United States, 1930-1945 (Cambridge, 1998). His co-edited books include (with L. Aronsen) The North Atlantic Powers in a Changing World: Anglo-American-Canadian Relations, 1903-1956 (Toronto UP, 1996) and (with M.L. Dockrill) Diplomacy and World Power: Studies in British Foreign Policy, 1890-1951 (Cambridge UP, 1996). He has also edited Anglo-American Relations in the 1920s: The Struggle for Supremacy (Macmillans and Alberta UP, 1991) and Arms Limitation and Disarmament, 1899-1939 (Praeger, 1992). With K.E. Neilson, he is the general editor of 'The Praeger Series on Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period'; he is also general editor of 'The Praeger Series on Diplomacy and Strategic Thought'.