Cold War Britain

Britain and the Cold War, 1945-1964 offers new perspectives on ways in which Britain fought the Cold War, and illuminates key areas of the policy formulation process. It argues that in many ways Britain and the United States perceived and handled the threat posed by the Communist bloc in similar terms: nevertheless, Britain's continuing global commitments, post-war economic problems and somestic considerations obliged her on occasion to tackle the threat rather differently.

'This new book on Britain and the Cold War comes as a very useful addition to the recent literature in that it provides a series of spotlights on specific aspects of the subject...a superb collection of debate-provoking essays.' - Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen, Cercles: Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone

'The contributors to the book offer valuable new perspectives on the early Cold War by revisiting a number of familiar issues and themes in the light of newly released archival material. These chapters are further contextualised and complimented by analyses of several lesser-known subjects, such as Anglo-Swedish relations. The result is an eclectic survey of British politics and policies in the early Cold War period that clearly establishes the nature and significance of both the 'special relationship' and Britain's place in the world.'

• Journal of Cold War Studies

'Taken together, the essays in this book represent a successful effort by a group of young British scholars to remodel historical understanding of British scholars to remodel historical understanding of British policy in early Cold War period. All have firm archival foundations, heavily weighted toward what is available in the Public Record Office, the National Archives in Washington, the published records of other governments, and memoirs and autobiographies. Though somewhat restricted, this range of primary sources has been exploited so capably that research in suchadditional material as personal papers is unlikely to produce substantially different conclusions.' - Albion

Autorentext
JUHANA AUNESLUOMA Lecturer in Contemporary History, University of Helsinki, Finland STEPHEN BLACKWELL PhD graduate and researcher in British civil-military relations PETER BUSCH Lecturer, University of Erfurt, Germany ERIK GOLDSTEIN Professor of International Relations, Boston University SEAN GREENWOOD Professor of Modern History, Canterbury Christ Church University College IAN JACKSON Lecturer in International Relations and American Foreign Policy, De Montfort University, Leicester JOHN JENKS Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Dominican University, Illinois MARTIN LONGDEN Historian at Foreign Commonwealth Office SPENCER MAWBY Lecturer in Politics, University of Leicester WAYNE REYNOLDS Senior Lecturer in history, University of Newcastle, Australia IAN SPELLER Senior Lecturer in defence Studies, UK Joint Services Command and Staff College

Inhalt
Introduction; M.F.Hopkins, M.D.Kandiah & G.Staerck PART 1: PRELUDE TO THE COLD WAR Britain and the origins of the Cold War 1917-25; E.Goldstein PART 2: THE COLD WAR AT HOME AND ABROAD Herbert Morrison, the Cold War and Anglo-American Relations 1945-51; M.F.Hopkins Transformation of Political Debates in Britain: The Conservative Party and the Cold War; M.D.Kandiah PART 3: THEMES IN DIPLOMACY Waging the Economic Cold War: Britain and COCOM, 1948-54; I.R.W.Jackson From 'Hot War' to 'Cold War': Western Europe in British Grand Strategy, 1945-48; M.A.L.Longden Fight Against Peace? Britain and the Partisans of Peace, 1948-51; J.Jenks 'Our Staunchest Friends and Allies in Europe': Britain's special relationship with Scandinavia, 1945-53; J.Aunesluoma Revisiting Rapallo: Britain, Germany and the Cold War, 1945-55; S.Mawby PART 4: DEFENCE STUDIES Defence or Deterrence: The Royal Navy and the Cold War, 1945-55; I.Speller Whatever Happened to the Fourth British Empire? The Cold War, Empire Defence v. the USA, 1943-57; W.M.Reynolds A Transfer of Power? Britain, the Anglo-American Relationship and the Cold War in the Middle East, 1957-62; S.J.Blackwell PART 5: REGIONAL STUDIES Coal and the Origins of the Cold War: the British Dilemma Over Cold Supplies From the Ruhr, 1946; S.Greenwood The Algerian War, de Gaulle and the Anglo-American Relations, 1958; G.Staerck Origins of Konfrontasi : Britain and the Creation of Malaysia, 1960-63; P.Busch