Periodic Reporting for period 1 - INTERALLIED (Mobilising the World: A New History of Inter-Allied Cooperation in the Second World War, 1939-1945)
Période du rapport: 2022-02-01 au 2024-01-31
The bulk of the work for the project was completed in the project’s second year. The labour for WP1 was desk research, undertaken through the facilities of Sciences Po’s Library, begun in M1 and continued to the project’s end. By contrast WP2 involved on-site archival research, which necessitated travel and limited work on this element to certain moments, specifically June-July 2022 (M5-6), May-June 2023 (M16-17) and August-November (M18-22) 2023. The first deliverable to be completed was for WP3, namely the Personalised Career Development Plan (PCDP), finished in March 2022 (M3). This was followed by the first deliverables for WP4, a set of conference presentations. Four months of the project were devoted to a major non-expert dissemination and TOK to the host activity, a lecture course at Sciences Po between January and May 2023 (M12-15). At around the same time I completed the bulk of WP3 in the form of the Data Management Plan and the project’s Ethics Requirements. The final eight months of the project were largely devoted to the completion of WP4 through a series of academic conference and seminar presentations, media interviews, a public/policy roundtable and an international conference that I organised. The only WP to not produce its own deliverables is WP5, because the training courses originally envisioned were discontinued and there were no workable replacement either at Sciences Po or at other Paris institutions of higher education (see below Section 5).
The project has produced two forthcoming, peer-reviewed outputs that advances these arguments:
- "Les choses de la guerre : L'aide interalliée dans l'histoire globale de la Seconde Guerre mondiale", Histoire @ Politique 52 (2024/1, June 2024);
- "The 'Grand Alliance of Nations': Making war global, waging global war, 1937-1955", in Essays on the Greater Second World War, eds. Ruth Lawlor and Andrew N. Buchanan (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, May 2025)
A third publication is nearing completion but has yet to pass peer review.