Shaping British Foreign and Defence Policy in the Twentieth Century

Introduction 1.Professor David Neville Dilks, MA (Oxon), FRHistS, FRSL (1938-): An Appreciation From Afar; Malcolm H. Murfett 2. The British Empire's Image of East Asia, 1900-41: Politics, Ideology and International Order; Antony Best 3. The Struggle to Maintain Locarno Diplomacy: Britain and the Idea of a Political Truce in 1931; Frank Magee 4. 'Leaving us in the lurch': The British Government, the First DRC Enquiry and the United States, 1933-34; Peter Bell 5. Chamberlain, the British Army and the 'Continental Commitment'; George Peden 6. Eden, the Foreign Office and the 'German Problem', 1935-38; Geoff Waddington 7. Harold Nicolson and Appeasement; John Young 8. Another Jewel Forsaken: the Role of Singapore in British Foreign and Defence Policy, 1919-1968; Malcolm H. Murfett 9. Quadruple Failure? The British-American Split over Collective Security in Southeast Asia, 1963-1966; Brian P. Farrell 10. GCHQ and UK Computer Policy: Teddy Poulden, ICL and IBM; Richard Aldrich