Robert Self

British Foreign and Defence Policy Since 1945 (eBook, PDF)

Challenges and Dilemmas in a Changing World

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Foreign policy has dominated successive governments' time in office and cast a consistently long shadow over British politics in the period since 1945. Robert Self provides a readable and incisive assessment of the key issues and events from the retreat from empire through the cold war period to Humanitarian Intervention and the debacle in Iraq.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230313538
• Artikelnr.: 45258752

Autorenporträt

ROBERT SELF was formerly Professor of British Politics and Contemporary History at London Metropolitan University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Britain's Place in a Changing World.- British Power and the Burden of History.- From Empire to Commonwealth.- Britain, the Atlantic Alliance and the 'Special Relationship'.- Britain and the Europe.- The Problems of Conventional Defence.- Britain and the Bomb: The Quest to Nuclear Deterrent.- New Labour, the 'Ethical' Dimension' and 'Liberal Intervention' .- Making Foreign and Defence Policy.- Conclusion: The Challenge of an Uncertain Future.