Britain and the Threat to Stability in Europe, 1918-45
Britain and the Threat to Stability in Europe, 1918-45

Author: Peter Catterall

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-10-06

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1474291872

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After the horrors of the First World War a dialogue began between European statesmen seeking some form of European integration as a way of achieving lasting peace. During the inter-war period this idea started to attract support in Britain even though Britain's strategic and economic interests remained focused outside Europe. This book explores Britain's relations with the continent between 1918 and 1945, focussing on diplomatic and military responses to the major crises and examining attitudes to the idea of Europe in the broader context of relations with the Empire, Commonwealth and the USA.

Liberals, International Relations and Appeasement
Liberals, International Relations and Appeasement

Author: Dr Richard S Grayson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 113527097X

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This work shows the importance of analysing the "low" politics of areas that have traditionally been dominated by "high" politics. The role of bodies such as the Liberal Summer School and the Women's Liberal Federation are examined, along with the work of thinkers such as JM Keynes.

Anglo-American Relations in the Twentieth Century
Anglo-American Relations in the Twentieth Century

Author: Alan Dobson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-03-11

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1134812876

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The relationship between Britain and America has been the most important bilateral relationship the world has ever seen. Dobson's concise and readable book covers the whole of this century and employs selected historical detail to expose the special relationship in its true light and in all its complexity. Dobson rejects tha claim that the US was ever hegemonical. Its realtionship with Britain - over the Suez Crisis and Iran in the 1960s and grenada in 1983 - clearly demonstrates that it had to bargain and did not always get its way. However, the two nations co-operated in every major crisis from the Great to the Gulf war, and together promoted liberal democracy and capitalism. The story reveals both more interdependence and conflict than has been recognised in the past. Nuclear, intelligence defence and other links betwen the USA and Britain continue to this day, but the importance of the `special relationship' has diminished for both countries. Have common interests disappeard to an extent that the scope for bilateral cooperation has diminished to insignificince ? It is in addressing this question that Dobson draws his conclusions. Coverning defence, economic, political and personal aspects of Anglo-US realtions, this book will be indispensible for students of twentieth century American and British history and international relations.

Failure in Palestine
Failure in Palestine

Author: Martin Jones

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-10-06

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1474291287

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Failure in Palestine traces Britain's attempts to reconcile her commitments to Palestine with her interests in the rest of the Middle East through bureaucratic and diplomatic paths to her eventual abandonment of Palestine. The text offers an excellent analysis of British decision making in this crucial period, whose repercussions are felt to the present day.

Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the Far East, 1933-1939
Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the Far East, 1933-1939

Author: Greg Kennedy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1136340157

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This volume charts how the national strategic needs of the United States of America and Great Britain created a "parallel but not joint" relationship towards the Far East as the crisis in that region evolved from 1933-39. In short, it is a look at the relationship shared between the two nations with respect to accommodating one another on certain strategic and diplomatic issues so that they could become more confident of one another in any potential showdowns with Japan.

Britain and the Spanish Anti-Franco Opposition
Britain and the Spanish Anti-Franco Opposition

Author: D. Dunthorn

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2000-10-06

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1403919445

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After fascism's defeat in 1945 Britain did not co-operate with Franco's Spanish opponents to end his dictatorship. This study demonstrates how divisions in the Spanish opposition were one factor but argues that Britain's strategic and commercial interests in Spain also acted as a disincentive. Only when international pressure for sanctions threatened Iberian stability in 1947 did the British government turn to the Spanish opposition. With the advent of the Cold War, however, the opposition became irrelevant to British needs and Franco's survival was guaranteed.

Arms, Economics and British Strategy
Arms, Economics and British Strategy

Author: G. C. Peden

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-02-08

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 113946292X

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This book integrates strategy, technology and economics and presents a new way of looking at twentieth-century military history and Britain's decline as a great power. G. C. Peden explores how from the Edwardian era to the 1960s warfare was transformed by a series of innovations, including dreadnoughts, submarines, aircraft, tanks, radar, nuclear weapons and guided missiles. He shows that the cost of these new weapons tended to rise more quickly than national income and argues that strategy had to be adapted to take account of both the increased potency of new weapons and the economy's diminishing ability to sustain armed forces of a given size. Prior to the development of nuclear weapons, British strategy was based on an ability to wear down an enemy through blockade, attrition (in the First World War) and strategic bombing (in the Second), and therefore power rested as much on economic strength as on armaments.

Post-Communist Transition
Post-Communist Transition

Author: András Bozóki

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-10-06

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1474287816

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The transition from communist dictatorship to multi-party democracy has proved a long and painful process for the countries of Eastern Europe, and has met with varying degrees of success. In Hungary, the radical opposition was uniquely successful in fighting off attempts by the old-guard communist elite to hijack reform programmes, by forcing free elections and creating a multi-party system. This volume focuses on the Hungarian experience, analysing in detail the process of transition from dictatorship to pluralist democracy. Some of Hungary's leading political scientists examine issues such as the legitimation crisis of communist rule, resulting struggles within the ruling elite and the forces behind transition. Constitutional reform, party formation and voting behaviour at the first free elections are also taken into account. The concluding section places the Hungarian experience in comparative perspective, within the context of other Central and Western European states.

Crossing Borders
Crossing Borders

Author: Sir Bernard Crick

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-10-06

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1474287379

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Bernard Crick's mastery of the political essay is matched by few, if any, modern political writers. This new collection demonstrates the wide range of his writing with characteristically bold, argumentative and witty pieces on British identity, on the Northern Irish peace process, on New Labour, on Shaw, Berlin, Laski and Arendt, and on the present state of political writing. It will enlighten, provoke and amuse readers keen to engage with political ideas and arguments current at the turn of the millennium.

Reclaiming Sovereignty
Reclaiming Sovereignty

Author: Laura Brace

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-10-06

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1474288464

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Sovereignty is undoubtedly one of the most disputed and controversial concepts in politics today. What does it mean to say that a state, a people or an individual is sovereign? In this book, twelve contributors, all specialists in their own area, tackle these questions in different ways. Underlying the range and diversity of their responses is a common problem: how does sovereignty relate to society and the state? The first part focuses upon developments in British politics, the European Union, Northern Ireland and South Africa in the late 20th century. The second part explores state sovereignty from an international perspective, while the third looks towards detaching sovereignty from the state. Feminist arguments about the self and the exploitation of prostituted women are interrogated along with a democratic analysis of popular organizations and a novel assessment of the question of sovereignty and animal rights.