
- 256 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Britain's International Role, 1970-1991
About this book
How does one of the world's greatest powers preserve its status and influence when international conditions are unfavourable and its resources do not match its commitments? This was Britain's burden in the 1970s and 1980s when the international order was transformed. Much became unsettled and Britain had to adapt policy to suit new needs and opportunities. Michael J. Turner elucidates the efforts that were made to maximise Britain's role on those matters and in those parts of the world that were of special importance to British strategy, prosperity and security. He examines key decisions and their consequences and places British policy-making in an international context, suggesting that British leaders were more successful in preserving power and prestige on the world stage than has sometimes been appreciated.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: âDoomed steadily to diminishâ?
- 1 Accommodating Change
- 2 Questions of Defence and Détente
- 3 The Beginning of a New World Order?
- 4 Quarrelling with Allies
- 5 Confronting the Soviets
- 6 Multipolarity and Nuclear Weapons
- 7 The Approach of Victory in the Cold War
- 8 Extra-European Affairs
- 9 Dealing with the Middle East
- 10 The Falklands Crisis: Causes and Consequences
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index