Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors 'It's What Made Britain Great': Reflections on British Foreign Policy, from Malplaquet to Maastricht; T.G.Otte Pitt the Elder and the Foundation of an Imperial Foreign Policy; J.Black Castlereagh, 1812-1822; C.J.Bartlett Palmerston: Artful Dodger or 'Babe of Grace'?; J.Charmley Floating Downstream? Lord Salisbury and British Foreign Policy, 1878-1902; T.G.Otte Control the Whirlwind: Sir Edward Grey as Foreign Secretary, 1906-1916; K.Neilson Austen Chamberlain; R.S.Grayson Rat in Power: Neville Chamberlain and the Creation of British Foreign Policy, 1931-1939; G.Kennedy Ernest Bevin: Reluctant Cold Warrior; S.Greenwood Anthony Eden; D.Dutton A Rear Guard Action: Harold Macmillan and the Making of British Foreign Policy, 1957-1963; N.J.Ashton British Foreign Policy under Margaret Thatcher; P.Sharp Index

Promotional Information

NIGEL J. ASHTON Lecturer in International History, London School of Economics C.J. BARTLETT Emeritus Professor of International History, University of Dundee JEREMY BLACK Professor of History, University of Exeter JOHN CHARMLEY Professor of Diplomatic History, University of East Anglia DAVID DUTTON Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool RICHAD S. GRAYSON Director, Centre for Reform, Special Adviser to the Leader of the Liberal Democrats SEAN GREENWOOD Professor of History, Christchurch College, Canterbury GREG KENNEDY Lecturer in Defence Studies, Joint Services College/King's College London KEITH NEILSON Professor of International and Military History, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario PAUL SHARP Professor of International Relations, University of Minnesota, Duluth

About the Author

THOMAS G. OTTE is Lecturer in International History at the University of the West of England. He has published widely on aspects of mainly pre-1914 international history, and is co-editor of Military Intervention: From Gunboat Diplomacy to Humanitarian Intervention and Personalities, War and Diplomacy. He is also the reviews editor of Diplomacy and Statecraft.

Reviews

'The Makers of British Foreign Policy is a rich collection of essays of unusually high quality on Britain's chief foreign policy-makers, from the elder Pitt to Lady Thatcher...These studies can be read as case histories in the rise and decline of British power, revealing a far more irregular process of change than is so often assumed...This book is well worth reading. The essays are varied and always thought-provoking.' - Zara Steiner, Times Literary Supplement