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Author:   Gaynor Johnson ,  Antony Best
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
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9783032143068

ISBN 10:   3032143063
Pages:   265
Publication Date:   26 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: British Foreign and Strategic Policy, 1940-1990.- Chapter 2. Munich, Appeasement and its Legacy in British Policy, 1938-1955; Gerry Hughes.- Chapter 3. The Clydeside Cabal: The Influence of Lord Weir, Sir James Lithgow and Sir Andrew Rae Duncan on War Planning and Industry, 1914-45; Chris Miller.- Chapter 4. “It can be done in the Pacific also”: Australia’s Failure to Replicate the Canada-United States Permanent Joint Board on Defence, and the Consequences for Imperial Security Cooperation; Galen Roger Perras.- Chapter 5. The First to be Freed? Ethiopia in Anglo-American Relations, 1941-44; Saul Kelly.- Chapter 6. Forewarned? British Intelligence Assessments of the Communist Threat to Greece, 1943-45; Christina Goulter.- Chapter 7. The Indian Army and the Partition of India, 1945-47; David Omissi.- Chapter 8. “In the mutual interest”: The Making and Breaking of the United Kingdom Ceylon Defence Agreement, 1947-57; Robert Barnes.- Chapter 9.Britain and the United Nations, 1942-48: Expectations and Reality; Ted Johnson.- Chapter 10. The Quest for Strength: The British Embassy in Washington and the Anglo-American Nuclear Relationship, 1945-51; Michael F. Hopkins.- Chapter 11. “The star of the team?”: Robert McNamara and His Role in Anglo-American Strategic Relations during the Kennedy Administration; Constantine A. Pagedas.- Chapter 12. Britain and the Summitry of Détente: Harold Wilson’s Moscow Visit of February 1975; Keith Hamilton.- Chapter 13. Britain, Denmark and the Stabilisation of the Northern Flank during the Euro-missiles Era; Effie Pedaliu.-Chapter 14. Guerrillas in our Midst: Reflections on the British Experience of Counter-insurgency in Popular Fiction; Geraint Hughes.- Chapter 15. Defence through Deterrence: British Policy-maker’s Views on the UK’s Cold War Defence Policy; Michael Kandiah.- Chapter 16. “The representative character of the job”: Identity Politics and the British Foreign Office, 1945-1997;James Southern.

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Antony Best is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics, UK. His most recent single-authored book is British Intelligence and the Japanese Challenge in Asia, 1914-1941 (Palgrave 2002), and he is one of the co-authors of International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond, 3rd edition (2015).  Gaynor Johnson is Professor Emerita in International History at the University of Kent, UK. Her most recent publications relate to the history and operation of the British Foreign Office and the use of prosopography as a research tool for international historians.  She has also published widely on twentieth-century British foreign policy.  Her most recent book is Politician and Internationalist: Lord Robert Cecil (2013).  

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