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Evan Luard as a writer on international affairs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2010

Adam Roberts
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Evan Luard, a prolific author of works on international relations, died on 8 February 1991 at the age of 64. He had contracted throat cancer in the mid-1980s, and in the Spring of 1990 it has been confirmed that he had lung cancer. His reaction to the grim news was typical of him. Not a religious man, he could realistically and calmly accept death. His major concern was that his written work should survive him. This was a true reflection of the extraordinary part that his writing had in his life.

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Review Article
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Review of International Studies , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 1992 , pp. 63 - 73
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Copyright © British International Studies Association 1992

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References

1 Evan Luard, letter to the Hon. J. P. E. C. Henniker-Major, CMG, MC, dated 5 November 1956.1 indebted to Professor Roger Louis for supplying me with a copy of this letter, which has not previously been published. It got to him in an odd way. Evan Luard, hearing that Roger Louis was working on a book on Suez, wanted him to have a copy; but Luard did not have one himself, so wrote t o the FCO requesting a copy, which the FCO obligingly supplied.

2 Daily Telegraph (London), 11 February 1991.

3 Hughes, T. J. and Luard, Evan, The Economic Development of Communist China 1949–1958 (London, 1959)Google Scholar; a second edition, The Economic Development of Communist China 1949–1960, appeared in 1961.

4 ‘Chinese Foreig n Policy’, a 14-page duplicated paper issued by the Royal Institute of International Affairs (London, 1957), p. 1. (This paper was prepared for the Thirteenth Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations, held in Lahore in February 1958.)

5 Britain and China (London, 1962), p. 243.

6 Britain and China, p. 254.

7 Luard, Peace and Opinion (London, 1962), pp. 1–3, 25, 28, 104, and 167–8. Curiously, this first general work in the field of international relations (along with his 1967 edited book on human rights) was omitted from his otherwise comprehensive listing of his works in his entry in Who's Who 1991.

8 Nationality and Wealth: A Study in World Government (London, 1964), p. 363.

9 Nationality and Wealth, p. 364.

10 Luard (ed.), First Steps to Disarmament: A New Approach to the Problems of Arms Reductions (London, 1965), p. 264.

11 Luard (ed.), The Cold War: A Reappraisal (London, 1966).

12 Luard (ed.), The Evolution of International Organizations (London, 1966), p. 327.

13 Luard (ed.), The International Protection of Human Rights (London, 1967).

14 Luard (ed.), The International Regulation of Frontier Disputes (London, 1970).

15 Luard (ed.), The International Regulation of Civil Wars (London, 1972).

16 Conflict and Peace in the Modern International System (Boston MA, 1968, and London, 1970).

17 Conflict and Peace, pp. 319–20.

18 Conflict and Peace, p. 320.

19 The Control of the Sea-Bed: A New International Issue (London, 1974).

20 International Agencies: The Emerging Framework of Interdependence (London, 1977).

21 In 1975 he had been appointed by the UN Secretary-General (Kurt Waldheim) to the Committee on Restructuring UN Economic and Social Activities.

22 Comments of ‘Reader A’ for Chatham House on the MS of International Agencies.

23 The United Nations: How it Works and What it Does (London, 1979). A disclaimer states: ‘This book was written before the author became a member of H.M. Government. The views expressed in it are the author's and not necessarily those of the government.’ Information about sales in a letter from T. M. Farmiloe of Macmillan to the author, 18 April 1991.

24 Socialism Without the State (London, 1979), p. 27. This book was reissued in 1991, with a new foreword.

25 Socialism Without the State, p. 141.

26 Socialism Without the State, p. 168.

27 Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Lear, Act 4, Scene 1.

28 The Management of the World Economy (London, 1983), p. 252.

29 The Blunted Sword: The Erosion of Military Power in Modern World Politics (London, 1988).

30 The Globalization of Politics: The Changed Focus of Political Action in the Modern World (London, 1990), p. 131.

31 Globalization of Politics, p. 132.

32 International Society (London, 1990), p. vii.

33 Types of International Society (New York, 1976).

34 Economic Relationships Among States: A Further Study in International Sociology (London, 1984).

35 War in International Society: A Study in International Sociology (London, 1986).

36 Hedley Bull, letter to Shirley Dow of I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., Publishers, 3 April 1985.

37 A History of the United Nations, vol. 1, The Years of Western Domination, 1945–1955 (London, 1982); and vol. 2, The Age of Decolonization, 1955–1965 (London, 1989).

38 Evan Luard, letter to the author, 10 October 1990. At his death there were rough drafts of four chapters of this third volume, which was to be entitledThe Search for World Order, and dealt with the period since 1914. Around the end of 1990 he also finished work on an edited collection, Basic Texts in International Relations, being published in 1992.

39 Comments of ‘Reader C for Chatham House on the MS of the bookInternational Agencies (1977).

40 The British Year Book of International Law 1989 (Oxford, 1990), p. 448; reviewingConflict and Peace in the Modern International System: A Study of the Principles of International Order, 2nd (completely revised) edn (London, 1988).