Britain in Global Politics Volume 2: From Churchill to Blair (Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World)

This collection of essays focuses Britain's role in global affairs since the Second World War. The essays cover a broad field, from relations with Japan and China, through European and African developments, to defence planning in Whitehall. This collection of essays focuses Britain's role in global affairs since the Second World War. The essays cover a broad field, from relations with Japan and China, through European and African developments, to defence planning in Whitehall. They include also political, economic, defence, ideological and religious dimensions and, even, 'futurology'. The essays in the collection offer fresh insights and new interpretations of the way in which a weakened Britain conducted its foreign policy in order to protect its interests and retain influence in international affairs. The book presents readers with wide-ranging perspectives on Britain and the World in the Cold War and post-Cold War eras, based on the latest available evidence. This collection of essays, along with the accompanying volume covering the period from Gladstone to Churchill, is published in memory of Saki Dockrill Front Matter....Pages i-xxv Britain and the Origins of the Religious Cold War, 1944–47....Pages 1-21 ‘Journey into a Desert’: British Perceptions of Poland’s Western Territories, 1945–48....Pages 22-41 British Propaganda and Countering Illegal Immigration into Palestine: The President Warfield or Exodus 1947 ....Pages 42-61 Britain, the United States and the Issue of ‘Limited War’ with China, 1950–54....Pages 62-81 ‘To Stay or to Walk’: The British and the Defence of Domestic Jurisdiction at the United Nations, 1950–56....Pages 82-99 ‘A Cardinal Point of Our World Strategy’: The Foreign Office and the Normalisation of Relations with Japan, 1952–63....Pages 100-118 Anglo-American Diplomacy and the Congo Crisis, 1960–63: The not so Special Relationship....Pages 119-138 The US Embassy in London and Britain’s Withdrawal from East of Suez, 1961–69....Pages 139-158 ‘We Were always Realistic’: The Heath Government, the European Community and the Cold War in the Mediterranean, June 1970–February 1974....Pages 159-178 ‘At The Top Table’: British Elites’ Perceptions of the UK’s International Position, 1950–91....Pages 179-197 The British Embassy in Washington and Anglo-American Relations during the Blair Governments, 1997–2007....Pages 198-217 Beyond the Horizon....Pages 218-237 Back Matter....Pages 239-249 This volume of essays focuses upon Britain's international and imperial role from the mid-Victorian era through until the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.