1st Edition
Decisions and Diplomacy Studies in Twentieth Century International History
248 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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The growing significance of international history and relations in recent years has been reflected in a growth of research and development of new courses. This collection of essays focus on three broad themes: the League of Nations and collective security, problems in British foreign policy, and European/International security in the interwar years. The book, in memory of Esmonde Robertson and... Read more
Foreword by Donald Cameron Watt Introduction 1. Economics and the crisis of British Foreign Policy management, 1914-45 2. Intelligence and the Lytton Commission, 1931-34 3. The Geneva Disarmament Conference, 1932-34 4. The Chiefs of Staff, the `men-on-the-spot' and the Italo-Abyssinian emergency, 1935-36 5. The `proffered gift': the Vatican and the abortive Yugoslav concordat of 1935-37 6. Britain, France and the Spanish problem, 1936-39 7. Britain and appeasement in the late 1930s: was there a League of Nations' alternative 8. The atomic bomb and the Korean War 9. Restoring the `special relationship': the Bermuda and Washington conferences, 1957
Biography
Dick Richardson, Professor Glyn A Stone, Glyn Stone
