| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiv, 208 pages) |
| Series |
Seminar studies |
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Seminar studies in history
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of plates; Preface; Abbreviations; Chronology; Who's who; Glossary; 1 THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE: 1496-1945; The birth of the British Empire; Workshop of the world; Scramble for Africa; The challenge of Empire; The impact of war; The interwar years; The Second World War; 2 THE EARLY POST-WAR YEARS: 1945-1955; The post-war settlement; Pressures for reform; World War to Cold War; Tension and conflict; Choices and decisions; European questions; The end of Empire; Reviewing the balance sheet |
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3 THE LIMITATIONS OF POWER: 1955-1970The 1956 Suez crisis; Searching for a role; Economic challenges and world visions; The nuclear option; Trimming the sails; Wind of change; Reluctantly European; The first application; The second application; 4 FINDING A WAY: 1970-1979; Changing fortunes; Joining Europe; Adapting to new realities; Eurosclerosis; Renegotiation and referendum; Challenges and turmoil; 5 RESURGENCE: 1979-1990; Economic restructuring; Empire legacies; Cold War warrior; European diplomacy; Grappling with Europe; On the sidelines of Europe; 6 POST-COLD WAR ORDER: 1990-1997 |
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New world orderBritain and the Gulf War; The hour of Europe; Maastricht mutiny; European disunity; 7 TRANSFORMED WORLD: 1997-2013; Ethics and intervention; New world disorder; European visions; Euro crisis; 8 ASSESSMENT; Reviewing the balance sheet; The European conundrum; The future direction of British foreign policy; DOCUMENTS; 1 The Yalta Agreements, 11 February 1945; 2 'A Financial Dunkirk'; 3 'The Sinews of Peace', Winston Churchill's speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, 5 March 1946 |
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4 Winston Churchill's speech at Zurich University on the subject of a United States of Europe, 19 September 19465 The Bevin speech on Western Union, 22 January 1948; 6 Winston Churchill, 'Three interlocking circles of British foreign policy', 9 October 1948; 7 Reassessing the significance of Empire in the 1950s; 8 The Suez crisis; 9 The 1957 defence White Paper; 10 Decolonisation and winds of change; 11 From Empire to Commonwealth; 12 Britain's first application for EEC membership; 13 France's rejection of British EEC membership, 14 January 1963 |
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14 Britain's second application for EEC membership, 2 May 196715 Withdrawal from East of Suez; 16 Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of blood' speech, 20 April 1968; 17 Britain's third application for EEC membership; 18 Renegotiation; 19 The 1975 referendum; 20 Thatcher's Europe; 21 Tony Blair and liberal intervention; 22 Cameron and Europe; 23 British Prime Ministers and Foreign Secretaries since 1945; REFERENCES; INDEX |
| Summary |
This Seminar Studies title is a succinct study of modern British foreign policy, focusing on the period from 1945 to the present day. Since the end of the Second World War, Britain has been engaged in international conflicts from the Suez Crisis to the Gulf War and has actively sought involvement in transnational and global affairs. Starting with a brief overview of the rise and fall of the British Empire and continuing chronologically with detailed chapters covering the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first, Alasdair Blair discusses the hi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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Diplomatic relations
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1945-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056717
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317665748 |
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1317665740 |
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1306971993 |
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9781306971997 |
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9781315768205 |
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1315768208 |
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113877927X |
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9781138779273 |
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1408248298 |
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9781408248294 |
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1317665724 |
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9781317665724 |
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1317665732 |
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9781317665731 |
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