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Arms control remains a major international issue as the twentieth century closes, but it is hardly a new concern. The effort to limit military power has enjoyed recurring support since shortly after World War I, when the United States, Britain, and Japan sought naval arms control as a means to insure stability in the Far East, contain naval expenditure, and prevent another world cataclysm.
Richard Fanning examines the efforts of American, British, and Japanese leaders— political, military, and social—to reach agreement on naval limitation between 1922 and the mid-1930s, with focus on the years 1927-30, when political leaders, statesmen, naval officers, and various civilian pressure groups were especially active in considering naval limits. The civilian and even some military actors believed the Great War had been an aberration and that international stability would reign in the near future. But the coming of the Great Depression brought a dramatic drop in concern for disarmament.
This study, based on a wide variety of unpublished sources, compares the cultural underpinnings of the disarmament movement in the three countries, especially the effects of public opinion, through examination of the many peace groups that played an important role in the disarmament process. The decision to strive for arms control, he finds, usually resulted from peace group pressure and political expediency.
For anyone interested in naval history, this book illuminates the beginnings of the arms limitation effort and the growth of the peace movement.
Richard Fanning is assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University.
"Has much to teach scholars of British policy."—Albion
"Fanning's work is a very important study of a major effort to achieve restriction in arms."—Choice
Publication Date
1994
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Place of Publication
Lexington, KY
ISBN
9780813118789
eISBN
9780813156767
Keywords
Arms control, Navies, Sea power, Disarmament
Disciplines
Military History
Recommended Citation
Fanning, Richard, "Peace And Disarmament: Naval Rivalry and Arms Control, 1922-1933" (1994). Military History. 14.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_military_history/14
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