A tribute to the distinguished diplomatic historian, Professor Michael Dockrill (1936-2018), this collection provides a comprehensive overview of the field of twentieth-century British foreign and strategic policy. With contributions from the most esteemed academic thinkers in the field, this collection will be of great value to anyone interested in British foreign and defence policy, whether they are a senior academic or an undergraduate researcher. In memory of the late Professor Dockrill, the essays place British foreign policy in a wide range of geographical, thematic and chronological perspectives.Volume II focuses on British foreign and strategic policy from the fall of France in 1940 to the end of the Cold War in Europe during the 1990s. The emphasis on the Cold War reflects Professor Dockrills interests in the later part of his career. The chapters explore British imperial and post-colonial history, as well as the impact of race and religion on British foreign policy duringthe second half of the twentieth century. British relations with the United Nations are also examined through the formulation of the so-called Special Relationship.
Introduction; Antony Best and Gaynor Johnson.-
1. Reflections on British
Foreign Policy Activism since 1945; Effie Pedaliu.
Chapter 2. The First to
be Freed? Ethiopia in Anglo-American relations, 1941-44; Saul Kelly.-
3.
Forewarned? Intelligence Assessments of the Communist Threat to Greece,
1943-45; Christina Goulter.- 4. Britain and the United Nations 1942-1948:
Expectations and Reality; Ted Johnson.- 5. The Indian Army and the Partition
of India, 1945-1947; David Omissi .- 6. The Sultanate of Oman, the Persian
Gulf and British Imperialism; Geraint Hughes,- 7. An Awkward Ally: Britain,
Apartheid South Africa and the Korean War; Robert Barnes.- 8. After
Chamberlain: Churchill and Appeasement; R. Gerald Hughes.- 9. The Quest for
Strength: The British Embassy in Washington and the Anglo-American Nuclear
Relationship, 1945-1951; Michael F. Hopkins.-
10. Fighting for an Airborne
Polaris: The US Air Force, Britain and the Origins of the Skybolt Crisis
Revisited; Constantine A. Pagedas.-
11. Britain and the Summitry of Détente;
Harold Wilsons Moscow Visit of February 1975; Keith Hamilton.
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).
