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By the onset of this century, there had developed a form of bureaucratic organisation in international agencies that subsequently became the parent of modern international political organisations. On one hand, permanent staffs were created which carried out the purposes of agencies and gave them a sense of permanency and coherence. On the other, the staffs and their functions became separated from the governing bodies of the agencies, while some form of council set policy for the organisation. This policy-making process later was described as ‘conference diplomacy’.
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A. B. Keith, The British Cabinet System, 2nd edn by N. H. Gibbs (London, 1952).
Robert Rhodes James, ‘The Concept of the International Civil Service’, in Robert S. Jordan (ed.) International Administration: Its Evolution and Contemporary Applications (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1971) p 53.
Article in The World Today, March 1924, as quoted in C. Howard-Ellis, The Origin, Structure and Working of the League of Nations (London: Allen and Unwin, 1928) pp. 171–2.
Trygve Lie, In the Cause of Peace (New York: Macmillan, 1954) p. 41.
For a thorough discussion of such national pressures, see Arthur W. Roving, The First Fifty Years: The Secretary-General in World Politics, 1920–1970 (Leiden: Sitjhoff, 1970).
Franklyn A. Johnson, Defence by Committee: The British Committee of Imperial Defence, 1885–1959 (London: Oxford University Press, 1960) p. 13.
See, for example, Robert S. Jordan (ed.) Dag Hammarskjöld Revisited: The UN Secretary-General as a Force in World Politics (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1983).
See John Ehrman, Cabinet Government and War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958) p. 31.
Lord Hankey, The Supreme Command, 1914–1918 vol. I (London: Allen and Unwin, 1961) p. 52.
For information on Hankey, see Stephen Roskill, Hankey: Man of Secrets vol. II 1919–1931 (London: Collins, 1972).
For a thorough review of this transformation, see John B. Hattendorf and Robert S. Jordan (eds) Maritime Strategy and the Balance of Power: Britain and America in The Twentieth Century (London: Macmillan, 1989) Part I.
Egon F. Ranshofen-Wertheimer, The International Secretariat (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1945).
For a differing view, see James Barros, Office Without Power: Secretary-General Sir Eric Drummond, 1919–1933 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979).
Quoted in Robert S. Jordan, The International Staff/Secretariat, 1952–1957: A Study in International Administration (London: Oxford University Press, 1967) pp. 16–17.
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Jordan, R.S. (1990). The Contribution of the British Civil Service and Cabinet Secretariat Tradition to International Prevention and Control of War. In: Hattendorf, J.B., Murfett, M.H. (eds) The Limitations of Military Power. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21023-7_4
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