This book is the first volume in a trilogy that traces the development of the academic subject of International Relations, or what was often referred to in the interwar years as International Studies. This first volume takes on the origins of International Relations, beginning with the League of Nations and the International Studies Conference in Berlin in 1928 and tracing its development through the Paris Peace Conference, the quest for cooperation in the Pacific, the Institute of Pacific Relations and lessons from Copenhagen, Shanghai and Manchuria. This project is an impressive and exhaustive consideration of the evolution of IR and is aptly published in celebration of the discipline's centenary.

Jo-Anne Pemberton is Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

1. Chapter 1: The League of Nations and the Study of International Relations.- 2. Chapter 2: The League of Nations and Origins of the International Studies Conference.- 3. Chapter 3:  The Paris Peace Conference, Racial Equality and the Shandong Question.- 4. Chapter 4: The Quest for a Machinery of Cooperation in the Pacific: The Covenant Rejected, the Washington Conference and the 1924 Exclusion Laws.- 5. Chapter 5: The Institute of Pacific Relations 1927-1929 and the Evolution of the International Studies Conference 1928-1930.- 6. Chapter 6: International Studies in 1931: From Copenhagen to Shanghai.- 7. Chapter 7: The Lessons of Manchuria.