Personalities, War and Diplomacy
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Personalities, War and Diplomacy

Essays in International History

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eBook - ePub

Personalities, War and Diplomacy

Essays in International History

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Personalities, War and Diplomacy by T.G. Otte, C. Pagedas, T.G. Otte,C. Pagedas in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Military & Maritime History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781135253615
Topic
History
Subtopic
Military & Maritime History
Index
History

Index

  • Abyssinia 130
  • Action Committee for the United States of Europe 188–9, 199, 211n
  • Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton of Aldenham 10n, 32n
  • Adams, John 68
  • Adams, Sherman 160
  • Adenauer, Konrad 99, 169, 191, 198–201, 204–5, 276
  • Aehrenthal, Alois Count Lexa von 42
  • Aeroflot 221
  • Agadir (second Morocco) crisis (1911) 24, 28, 86
  • Albania 168, 170–2
  • Albertini, Luigi 54, 63n
  • Alfonso XIII, King of Spain 127–8
  • Algeria 259
  • Alsace-Lorraine 94
  • Ambrose, Stephen E. 159–60, 181n, 251n
  • Amery, Leo(pold) 117, 123n
  • Anderson, Clinton 241
  • Angell, Norman 86–7, 102n
  • Anglo-American agreements on nuclear cooperation (1958) 255
  • Anglo-Italian agreement (1937) 139, 147–8
  • Anglo-Japanese alliance (1912) 68, 115
  • ‘Annales-school’ 6, 7
  • anti-Americanism 76
  • Anti-Comintern Pact 149
  • anti-liberalism 21
  • anti-semitism 18
  • appeasement 30, 145, 148
  • Aristotle 1, 9n
  • Armand, Louis 198
  • Asia 75–6, 158, 174
  • Asquith, Herbert Henry, Earl of Oxford and Asquith 22
  • Asturias 130
  • Atlantic 134, 150
  • ‘Atlanticists’ 75, 206
  • ‘Atlas’ missile 219
  • Atomic Energy Commission 238, 245, 247
  • ‘Atoms for Peace’ 172
  • Augustinus 2, 9n
  • Auriol, Vincent 130
  • Australia 159
  • Austria 95, 164–5
  • Austria-Hu...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. Preface by Roy Jenkins
  9. Introduction: Personalities and Impersonal Forces in History
  10. Eyre Crowe and British Foreign Policy: A Cognitive Map
  11. Field Marshal Conrad von Hözendorf and the Outbreak of the First World War
  12. The British Official Mind and the United States, 1919–42
  13. Gustav Stresemann: Liberal or Realist?
  14. Viscount Cecil, Winston Churchill and the Geneva Naval Conference of 1927: Si vis pacem para pacem vs si vis pacem para bellum
  15. Sir Robert Vansittart and Spain, 1931–1941
  16. The Myth of Leadership: Dwight Eisenhower and the Quest for Liberation
  17. The Diplomacy of Junktim: Paul-Henri Spaak and European Integration
  18. Defence Sufficiency and the Military-Political Conception of Nikita Khrushchev
  19. John F. Kennedy, Nuclear Tests and the Politics of Cold War Foreign Policy
  20. The Limits of Personal Influence: Harold Macmillan and Anglo-French Relations, 1960–1963
  21. Index