A “Great Power” Man or World Stater? The International Thought of Charles Kingsley Webster, 1886–1961

This article examines the international thought of Charles Kingsley Webster, one Britain's most important diplomatic historians twentieth century. Though best remembered as first Congress Vienna and a biographer Lord Castlereagh Palmerston, Webster also served key planners for United Nations Organization in Foreign Office during Second World War. His ideas concerning internationalism—particularly his belief an eventual world state—as well views on British foreign policy nature politics, offer unique insight into both varieties interwar internationalism intellectualism which contributed to strategic planning early 1940s.