Britain in Global Politics Volume 1

Introduction Saki Ruth Dockrill, 'no ordinary professor'; Brian Holden Reid 1. 'A Very Internecine Policy': Anglo-Russian cold wars before the Cold War; T.G. Otte 2. Curzon's War and Curzon's Peace; John Fisher 3. Markers of Modernity or Agents of Terror?: Air Policing and Colonial Revolt after World War I; Martin Thomas 4. Addressing the Past: The Foreign Office and the Vetting of Diplomatic and Ministerial Memoirs During the Years between the World Wars; Keith Hamilton 5. The Secret Intelligence Service and China: The Case of Hilaire Noulens, 1923-1932; Christopher Baxter 6. Strategy and Foreign Policy in Great Britain, 1930-1938: From the Pursuit of Balance of Power to Appeasement; B.J.C. McKercher 7. 'Thank God for the French Army': Churchill, France and an Alternative to Appeasement in the 1930s; Philip Bell 8. Britain and the Spanish Connection, 1931-1947: Non-intervention and the Regime Change; Glyn Stone 9. 'To Gamble all on a Single Throw': Neville Chamberlain and the Strategy of the Phoney War; Joe Maiolo 10; The Committee on American Opinion on the British Empire, 1942-1944; Andrew Stewart 11. The Colonial versus the Anti-Colonial: the Failure of Anglo-American Planning on the Future of the Italian Colonies, September 1943 - June 1945; Saul Kelly