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Books

• Britain, America, and the Special Relationship since 1941 (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017), 205 pp.
• Transition of Power: Britain’s Loss of Global Preeminence to the United States, 1930-1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 402.
• Esme Howard: A Diplomatic Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 482.
• The Second Baldwin Government and the United States, 1924-1929: attitudes and diplomacy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. 271.

Edited Books

• The Routledge Handbook of Diplomacy and Statecraft, Second Edition (Abingdon: Routledge, 2022), pp. 456.
• With Erik Goldstein, co-editor, Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles: Of War and Peace (London, Routledge, 2020), pp. 256.
• With Antoine Capet, co-editor, Winston Churchill: At War and Thinking of War before 1939 (London: Routledge, 2019), 205pp.
• editor, The Handbook of Diplomacy and Statecraft (London: Routledge, 2011), 489 pp.
• with M.A. Hennessy, eds., War in the Twentieth Century. Reflections at Century’s End (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003), 245 pp.
• with E. Goldstein, eds., Power and Stability. British Foreign Policy, 1865-1965 (London: Frank Cass, 2003), pp.348.
• with R. Legault, co-editor, Military Planning and the Origins of the Second World War in Europe (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000), pp. 208.
• with M.A. Hennessey, co-editor, The Operational Art: Developments in the Theory of War (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997), pp. 220.
• with L. Aronsen, co-editor, The North Atlantic Powers in a Changing World: Anglo-American-Canadian Relations, 1903-1956 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996), pp. 298.
• with Michael Dockrill, co-editor, Diplomacy and World Power: Studies in British Foreign Policy, 1890-1951 [a festschrift for Zara Steiner on her retirement] (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 271.
• with A.H. Ion, co-editor, Military Heretics: studies in the unorthodox in military leadership (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993), pp. 246.
• with K.E. Neilson, co-editor, Go Spy the Land: Military Intelligence in History (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992), pp. 205.
• editor, Arms Limitation and Disarmament, 1899-1939: restraints on war (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992), pp. 248
• editor, Anglo-American Relations in the 1920s: the struggle for supremacy (London and Edmonton: Macmillans and the University of Alberta Press, 1991), pp. 242.
• with E.J. Errington, co-editor, The Vietnam War as History (New York: Praeger, 1990), pp. 196. 
• with D.J. Moss, co-editor, Shadow and Substance in British Foreign Policy, 1895-1939.  Essays in honour of the late Professor C.J. Lowe (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1984), pp. 280.

Selected Articles

• ‘Catholicism and Foreign Policy: Esme Howard and British Policy towards Poland, 1919’, Diplomacy & Statecraft, 32/2(2021), 289-309.
• ‘The Other German Treaty: Lloyd George and St Germain, 1919/20‘, Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs, 9/2(2019), 320-31.
• with Erik Goldstein, ‘Introduction:  Of War and Peace: Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles’, Diplomacy & Statecraft, 30/2(2019), 194-200.
• ‘The Quest for Stability: British War Aims and Germany, 1914–1918’, Diplomacy & Statecraft, 30/2(2019), 201-27. 
• ‘Anschluss: The Chamberlain Government and the First Test of Appeasement, February–March 1938’ International History Review, 39/2(2017), 274-94.
• ‘Kanada’, in E.A. Schmidl, hrsg., ‘Was sagt uns der Erste Weltkrieg heute? Führende Militärhistoriker aus 21 Staaten berichten‘, ISS Aktuell, 3(2014), p. 8.
• ‘Canada and the Second World War’ [Review article], Cercles. Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone [(February 2014], 8,433 words:
• ‘National Security and Imperial Defence: British Grand Strategy and Appeasement, 1930-1939’, Diplomacy & Statecraft, 19(2008), 391-442.
• ‘The Continental Commitment and British Foreign Policy: the Field Force and the Strategy of the National Government, 1933-1938’, English Historical Review, 123(2008), 98-131.
• ‘“A Certain Irritation”: the White House, the State Department, and Naval Arms Limitation, 1927-1932’, Diplomatic History, 31(2007), 829-63.
• With S. Enjamio, ‘“Brighter Futures, Better Times”: Britain, the Empire, and Anglo-American Economic Competition in Cuba, 1898-1920’, Diplomacy & Statecraft, 18(2007), 663-87.
• ‘The Foreign Office, 1930-1939: Strategy, Permanent Interests, and National Security’, Contemporary British History, 18(2004), 87-109.
• ‘Austen Chamberlain and the Continental Balance of Power: Strategy, Stability, and the League of Nations, 1924-29’, Diplomacy and Statecraft, 14(2003), 207-36.
• with Erik Goldstein, ‘Power and Stability in British Foreign Policy, 1865-1965’, Diplomacy and Statecraft, 14(2003), 1-22.
• with Catherine Krull, ‘The Press, Public Opinion, Arms Limitation, and Government Policy in Britain, 1932-1934: Some Preliminary Observation’, Diplomacy and Statecraft, 13(2002), 103-36.
• with M.L. Roi, ‘“Ideal” and “Punch-Bag”: Conflicting Views of the Balance of Power and Their Influence on Interwar British Foreign Policy’, Diplomacy and Statecraft, 12(2001), 47-78.
• ‘From Disarmament to Rearmament: British Civil-Military Relations and Policy-Making, 1933-1936’, Defence Studies, 1(2001), 21-48.
• ‘Reckoning with the Myth of the American Expeditionary Force: The United States and the Allied War Coalition, 1917-1918’, Reviews in American History, 23(1995), 284-89.
• ‘The Last Old Diplomat: Sir Robert Vansittart and the Verities of British Foreign Policy, 1903-1930’, Diplomacy and Statecraft, 6/1(1995), 1-38.
• ‘The Paths of Reason and Peace: Esme Howard’s Unpublished Manuscript on "Paderewski. Musician – Patriot – Statesman"‘, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 41(1993), 81-100.
• ‘"No Eternal Friends or Enemies": British Defence Policy and the Problem of the United States, 1919-1939’, Canadian Journal of History, 28(1993), 257-93.
• ‘The Politics of Naval Disarmament in Britain in the 1920s’, Diplomacy and Statecraft, 4/3(1993), 35-59.
• ‘From Enmity to Cooperation: the second Baldwin government and the improvement of Anglo-American relations, November 1928-June 1929’, Albion, 24(1992), 64-87.
• ‘The Richness and Diversity of International History: the new "Guides to Research and Research Materials"‘, Canadian Journal of History, 27(1992), 521-31.
• ‘Reaching for the Brass Ring: recent historiography of American foreign relations in the interwar period’, Diplomatic History, 15(1991), 565-98.
• ‘"Our Most Dangerous Enemy": Great Britain Pre-eminent in the 1930s’, International History Review, 13(1991), 751-83.
• ‘Diplomatic Equipoise: The Lansdowne Foreign Office, the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, and the global balance of power’, Canadian Journal of History, 24(1989), 299-340.
• ‘Wealth, Power, and the New International Order: Britain and the American Challenge in the 1920s’, Diplomatic History, 12(1988), 411-41.
• ‘"A dose of fascismo": Esme Howard in Spain, 1919-1924’, International History Review, 9(1987), 555-85.
• ‘Belligerent Rights in 1927-1929: Foreign Policy Versus Naval Policy in the Second Baldwin Government’, Historical Journal, 29(1986), 963-74.
• ‘A Sane and Sensible Diplomacy: Austen Chamberlain, Japan, and the Naval Balance of Power in the Pacific Ocean, 1924-1929’, Canadian Journal of History, 21(1986), 187-213.
• with K.E. Neilson, ‘"The Triumph of Unarmed Forces": Sweden and the Allied Blockade of Germany, 1914-1917’, Journal of Strategic Studies, 7(1984), 178-99.
• ‘Austen Chamberlain’s Control of British Foreign Policy, 1924-1929’, International History Review, 6(1984), 570-91.
• ‘A British View of American Foreign Policy: The Settlement of Blockade Claims, 1924-1927’, International History Review, 3(1981), 358-84.

Selected Chapters

• ‘Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Ramsey MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain: The Amelioration of Anglo-American Rivalry’, in Michael Patrick Cullinane and Martin Farr, eds., The Palgrave Handbook of Presidents and Premiers: From Cleveland and Salisbury to Trump and Johnson, 1895 (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), 101-32.
• ‘Prologue: Diplomacy and Statecraft in an Era of Increasing International Anarchy’, in B.J.C. McKercher, editor, The Routledge Handbook of Diplomacy and Statecraft, Second Edition (Abingdon: Routledge, 2022), xxi-xxxiii.
• ‘Catholicism and Foreign Policy: Esme Howard and British Policy towards Poland, 1919’, inn T.G. Otte, ed., Studies in Diplomacy and Statecraft. Essays in Honour of Erik Goldstein (Abingdon: Routledge, 2022), 289-309.
• ‘Chrysalis of Power: American Foreign Policy, 1919-1941’, in Christopher Dietrich, ed., A Companion to U.S. Foreign Policy, Colonial Era to the Present, Volume I (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2020), 345-81.
• with Erik Goldstein, ‘Introduction:  Of War and Peace: Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles’, in B.J.C, McKercher and Erik Goldstein, eds., Of War and Peace: Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles (London: Routledge, 2020), 1-7.
• ‘The Quest for Stability: British War Aims and Germany, 1914-1918’, in B.J.C, McKercher and Erik Goldstein, eds., Of War and Peace: Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles (London: Routledge, 2020), 8-34.
• ‘The Democratization of Central and Eastern Europevas a British Strategic Objective, 1918–1925/Die Demokratisierung der Mittel-und Osteuropa als britischer Ideal nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg’, in H. Rumpler, and U. Harmat, eds., Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848-1918, Bd. XII: Bewältigte Vergangenheit? Die nationale und internationale Historiografie zum Untergang der Habsburgermonarchie als ideelle Grundlage für die Neuordnung Europas (Wien: Kommission für die Geschichte der Habsburgermonarchie, 2018), 331-58.
• With Antoine Capet, ‘Introduction. Winston Churchill: At War and Thinking of War before 1939”, in B.J.C. McKercher and Antoine Capet, eds., Winston Churchill: At War and Thinking of War before 1939 (London, Routledge: 2019), 1-14.
• ‘The Limitations of the Politician-Historian: Winston Churchill, rearmament, appeasement, and the origins of the Second World War’, in B.J.C. McKercher and Antoine Capet, eds., Winston Churchill: At War and Thinking of War before 1939 (London: Routledge, 2019), 127-52.
• ‘Economic Warfare’, in Hew Strachan, ed., Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War, New Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 119-133.
• ‘Strategy and Foreign Policy in Great Britain, 1930-1938: From the Pursuit of the Balance of Power to Appeasement’, in Christopher Baxter, M.L. Dockrill, and Keith Hamilton, ed., Britain in Global Politics, Volume I: From Gladstone to Churchill, 1900-1945 (London: Palgrave, 2013), 153-74.
• ‘The War Office and the British Army Field Force: Building for the Continental Commitment, 1933-1939’, in Harold Raugh, editor, Past Through Present: Thoughts on Military History at the Strategic, Operational, and Tactical Levels of War (Vienna: Heeresgeschichtlichen Museums, 2013), 121-36.
• ‘Prologue: The International Order and the New Century’, in B.J.C. McKercher, ed., The Handbook of Diplomacy and Statecraft (London: Routledge, 2011), ix-xxviii.
• with K.E. Neilson, ‘"The Triumph of Unarmed Forces": Sweden and the Allied Blockade of Germany, 1914-1917’, in Andrew Lambert, ed., Naval History 1850-Present, Volume I (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), 449-70.
• ‘From Isolation to Intervention: Anglo-Canadian Defence Relations from the Canadian Perspective, 1935-1939’, in R.S. Rush and W.W. Epley, eds., Multinational Operations, Alliances, and International Military Cooperation (Washington, DC: Center of Military History, United States Army, 2006), 85-91.
• ‘The Foreign Office, 1930-1939: Strategy, Permanent Interests, and National Security’, in G. Johnson, ed., The Foreign Office and British Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century (London: Routledge, 2005), 87-109.
• ‘The Limitations of the Politician-Strategist: Winston Churchill and the German Threat, 1933-1939’, in John Maurer, ed., Churchill and Strategic Dilemmas Before the World Wars. Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel (London: Frank Cass, 2003), 88-120.
• ‘Austen Chamberlain and the Continental Balance of Power: Strategy, Stability, and the League of Nations, 1924-29’, in E. Goldstein and B.J.C. McKercher, eds., Power and Stability. British Foreign Policy, 1865-1965 (London: Frank Cass, 2003), 207-36.
• with Erik Goldstein, ‘Power and Stability in British Foreign Policy, 1865-1965’, in E. Goldstein and B.J.C. McKercher, eds., Power and Stability. British Foreign Policy, 1865-1965 (London: Frank Cass, 2003), 1-22.
• ‘Cold War North Atlantic Triangle: Canada, Great Britain, and the United States, 1945-1990’, in A. Capet, ed., The ‘Special Relationship’. La <<relation spéciale’’ entre le Royaume-Uni et les États-Unis (Rouen: University of Rouen Press, 2003), 137-67.
• ‘The Canadian Way of Warfare, 1939-1945’, in B. Horn, ed., Forging a Nation: Perspectives on the Canadian Military Experience (St Catherines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing, 2002), 123-34.
• ‘Reaching for the Brass Ring: The Recent Historiography of Interwar American Foreign Relations’, in Michael J. Hogan, ed., Paths to Power: The Historiography of American Foreign Relations to 1941 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp.176-223.
• ‘Lost Opportunities; The Diplomacy of "Isolationism" in the 1930s’, in Jonathan M. Nielson, ed., Speculations on American Foreign Policy and Diplomatic History: Interests, Ideals, and Power (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000), 67-107
• ‘Toward the Post-War Settlement: Winston Churchill and the Second Quebec Conference’, in D.L. Woolner, ed., The Second Quebec Conference Revisited; Waging War, Formulating Peace: Canada, Great Britain, and the United States, 1944-1945 (New York: St. Martin’s Press and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, 1998), 17-48.
• ‘Economic Warfare’, in Hew Strachan, ed., Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 119-133.
• ‘The League of Nations and the Problem of Collective Security, 1919-1936’, in U.M. Rüser, ed., The League of Nations, 1920-1946. Organization and Accomplishments (Geneva: the United Nations Library/League of Nations Archives, 1996), 66-73.
• ‘Old Diplomacy and New: The Foreign Office in the Interwar Period’, in Dockrill and McKercher, Diplomacy and World Power, 79-114.
• ‘World Power and Isolationism: the North Atlantic Triangle and the crises of the 1930s’, in McKercher and Aronsen, North Atlantic Powers, 110-46.
• ‘Churchill, the European balance of power, and the USA’, in R.A.C. Parker, ed., Sir Winston Churchill. Studies in Statesmanship (London: Brasseys, 1995), 42-64.
• ‘The Politics of Naval Arms Limitation in Britain in the 1920s’, in Erik Goldstein and John Maurer, eds., The Washington Conference, 1921-22. Naval Rivalry, East Asian Stability and the Road to Pearl Harbor (London: Frank Cass, 1994), 35-59.
• ‘"Shield of Memory": the memoirs of the British Foreign-Policy-Making Elite, 1919-1939’, in G.W. Egerton, ed., Political Memoir: Essays on the Politics of Memory (London: Frank Cass, 1994), 188-206.
• ‘Of Horns and Teeth: the Preparatory Commission and the World Disarmament Conference, 1926-1934’, in McKercher, Arms Limitation and Disarmament, 173-201.
• ‘"A greater and higher ideal": Esme Howard, Imperial unity, and Canadian autonomy in foreign policy, 1924-1930’, in Michael Graham Fry, editor, Power, Personalities, and Policies. Essays Honouring D. Cameron Watt (London: Frank Cass, 1992), 107-43.
• ‘Between Two Giants: Canada, the Coolidge Naval Conference, and Anglo-American Relations in 1927’, in McKercher, Anglo-American Relations in the 1920s, pp. 81-124.
• ‘Afterword: Foreign Policy and Military Planning – The Cold War and National Defence, 1945-1960’, in R.G. Haycock and K.E. Neilson, eds., The Cold War and National Defence (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990), pp.185-93.
• ‘The British Diplomatic Service in the United States and the Chamberlain Foreign Office’s Perception of Domestic America:  images, reality, and diplomacy’, in McKercher and Moss, Shadow and Substance in British Foreign Policy, pp. 221-47.