The Makers of British Foreign Policy: From Pitt to Thatcher - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333915798 ISBN 13: 9780333915790

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001

Synopsis

The compelling essays brought together in this collection provide newassessments of the course of British foreign policy from the Glorious Revolution to the Treaty of Maastricht in 1991, its underlying principles as well as Britain's standing in international politics. The essays examine these issues through the prism of the personalities of those Foreign Secretaries and Prime Ministers who had a major impact on the course and conduct of British foreign policy, from the elder Pitt in the eighteenth century to Margaret Thatcher at the end of the twentieth.

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Review:

'The Makers of British Foreign Policy is a rich collection of essays of unusually high quality on Britain's chief foreign policy-makers, from the elder Pitt to Lady Thatcher...These studies can be read as case histories in the rise and decline of British power, revealing a far more irregular process of change than is so often assumed...This book is well worth reading. The essays are varied and always thought-provoking.' - Zara Steiner, Times Literary Supplement

About the Author:

THOMAS G. OTTE is Lecturer in International History at the University of the West of England. He has published widely on aspects of mainly pre-1914 international history, and is co-editor of Military Intervention: From Gunboat Diplomacy to Humanitarian Intervention and Personalities, War and Diplomacy. He is also the reviews editor of Diplomacy and Statecraft.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0333915798
• ISBN 13: 9780333915790
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Otte T.