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Professor Aster's research fields are modern Britain and international relations. His publications include "Ivan Maisky and Parliamentary Ant-Appeasement, 1939-1939, in Lloyd George: Twelve Essays (1971), 1939 The Making of the Second World War (1973), Les Origins de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale (1974), Anthony Eden (1976), A.P. Young. Die X-Dokumente: Die geheimen Kontakte Carl Goerdelers mit der britischen Regierung.1938/1939 (1989), "’Guilty Men’: The Case of Neville Chamberlain" in Paths to War: New Essays on the Origins of the Second World War (1989), British Foreign Policy, 1918-1945: A Guide to Research and Research Materials (1991), "’Salter's Soviet': Another View of All Souls and Appeasement" in Power, Personalities and Policies: Essays in Honour of Donald Cameron Watt (1992), “Mapping the Archives: Documents on to British Foreign Policy and Documents on to British Policy Overseas” in Diplomatic Documents and Their Users (1995); “’Guilty Men’: The Case of  Neville Chamberlain”, in The Origins of the Second World War (1997), “Military Planning and the Origins of the Second World War”, in Military Planning and the Origins of the Second World War (2001), “Viorel Virgil Tilea and the Origins of the Second World War: An Essay in Closure,” in Diplomacy and Statecraft (2002), “Sir William Seeds: The Diplomat as Scapegoat?” in Leadership and Responsibility in the Second World War (2004) and “Appeasement and All Souls: A Portrait with Documents, 1937-1939 (2005), Dealing with Josef Stalin, The Moscow Blue Book, 1939 (2009). Professor Aster is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (U.K.).