Name: Personalities, War and Diplomacy:Essays in International History
ISBN: 9781315037929

Book

ABSTRACT

Combines essays on the "personality dimension" in the 19th and 20th century international history, placing in a proper historical perspective the impact of individual diplomats, politicians and military strategists on foreign policy-making.

chapter |13 pages

Introduction: Personalities and Impersonal Forces in History

chapter 1|24 pages

Eyre Crowe and British Foreign Policy: A Cognitive Map

chapter 2|28 pages

Field Marshal Conrad von Hötzendorf and the Outbreak of the First World War

chapter 3|15 pages

The British Official Mind and the United States, 1919–42

Personalities, War and Diplomacy

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |13 pages

Introduction: Personalities and Impersonal Forces in History

chapter 1|24 pages

Eyre Crowe and British Foreign Policy: A Cognitive Map

chapter 2|28 pages

Field Marshal Conrad von Hötzendorf and the Outbreak of the First World War

chapter 3|15 pages

The British Official Mind and the United States, 1919–42

chapter 4|24 pages

Gustav Stresemann: Liberal or Realist?

chapter 5|22 pages

Viscount Cecil, Winston Churchill and the Geneva Naval Conference of 1927: si vis pacem para pacem versus si vis pacem para bellum

chapter 6|31 pages

Sir Robert Vansittart and Spain 1931–1941

chapter 7|28 pages

The Myth of Leadership: Dwight Eisenhower and the Quest for Liberation

chapter 8|27 pages

The Diplomacy of Junktim: Paul-Henri Spaak and European Integration

chapter 9|21 pages

Defence Sufficiency and the Military-Political Conception of Nikita Khrushchev (1953–1964)1

chapter 10|20 pages

John F. Kennedy, Nuclear Tests and The Politics of Cold War Foreign Policy

chapter 11|29 pages

The Limits of Personal Influence: Harold Macmillan and Anglo-French Relations, 1960–1963