Titlebook: Shaping British Foreign and Defence Policy in the Twentieth Century; A Tough Ask in Turbu Malcolm H. Murfett (Visiting Professor) Book 2014

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Book 2014This volume is devoted to the shaping of British foreign and defence policymaking in the twentieth century and illustrates why it‘s relatively easy for states to lose their way as they grope for a safe passage forward when confronted by mounting international crises and the antics of a few desperate men.

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Professor David Neville Dilks, MA (Oxon), FRHistS, FRSL (1938-),I need to state at the outset that I owe a huge debt of gratitude to David Dilks for the significant impact he had on my life at Leeds and Oxford in the 1970s and at Singapore ever since. Without David’s influence and periodic intervention, my professional career would have almost certainly turned out quite differently.

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The Struggle to Maintain Locarno Diplomacy,oblem and the associated question of French security. It was hoped in London that Britain’s adherence to the Treaty of Locarno in 1925 had gone a long way to satisfy French anxieties; anxieties that had to be addressed if the preferred option in London — some revision of the Treaty of Versailles in