Britain in Global Politics Volume 1

1. Introduction: Saki Ruth Dockrill, ‘No Ordinary Professor’
Brian Holden Reid

2. ‘A Very Internecine Policy’: Anglo-Russian Cold Wars before the Cold War
T. G. Otte

3. Curzon’s War and Curzon’s Peace
John Fisher

4. Markers of Modernity or Agents of Terror? Air Policing and Colonial Revolt after World War I
Martin Thomas

5. Addressing the Past: The Foreign Office and the Vetting of Diplomatic and Ministerial Memoirs during the Years between the World Wars
Keith Hamilton

6. The Secret Intelligence Service and China: The Case of Hilaire Noulens, 1923–1932
Christopher Baxter

7. Strategy and Foreign Policy in Great Britain, 1930–1938: From the Pursuit of the Balance of Power to Appeasement
B. J. C. McKercher

8. ‘Thank God for the French Army’: Churchill, France and an Alternative to Appeasement in the 1930s
Philip Bell

9. Britain and the Spanish Connection, 1931–1947: Non-intervention and Regime Change
Glyn Stone

10. ‘To Gamble All on a Single Throw’: Neville Chamberlain and the Strategy of the Phoney War
Joe Maiolo

11. The Committee on American Opinion on the British Empire, 1942–1944
Andrew Stewart

12. 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

Keywords: History, History of Britain and Ireland, Imperialism and Colonialism, Political History, World History, Global and Transnational History, International Relations, Modern History