Dan Plesch is director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London; visiting senior research fellow at Keele University; and senior associate of the Foreign Policy Centre. He is the author of The Beauty Queen’s Guide to World Peace (Politicos, 2004);his latest book, America, Hitler and the UN: How the Allies Won World War II and Forged a Peace will be published in autumn 2010.