The Secret Diplomacy of the Habsburgs, 1598–1625

Looks at the context of policy making specifically relating to the Spanish Hapsburg policy and intelligence from England. Preface A Note on Method Contents About Spies and Such Part One: The Context for Policymaking 1. The Peacemaking Phase and its Product 2. International Quarrels, Religious and Irreligious 3. International Attitudes and Outlooks Part Two: The Making of Spanish Habsburg Policy 4. The Ultimate Question: War or Peace? 5. The Policymaking Apparatus—Madrid 6. The Policymaking Apparatus—Brussels 7. Parenthesis: Portrait of a Bureaucracy 8. The Informational Base of Foreign Policy Part Three: Intelligence from England 9. The Court and Character of James I 10. Gondomar: The Classic Machiavelli 11. Jean-Baptiste van Male: A Renaissance Spymaster 12. William Sterrell: A Jacobean Letter Writer Part Four: Spanish Espionage Put to the Test 13. A Problem of Espionage 14. An Extraordinary Embassy from France 15. The Laying Bare of Secrets 16. Denouement: The Bassompierre Mission to Madrid 17. Van Male and the Six Dutch Deputies 18. Secrets not Laid Bare 19. Gondomar in Mid-February, 1621 20. Van Male Blunders On 21. Denouement: The Pecquius Mission to the Hague Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index