Introduction.- John Fisher, Effie Pedaliu & Richard
Smith.- 1. ‘A kind of black hole?’: commercial diplomacy
before 1914..- T. G. Otte.- 2. In pursuit of national
security: the Foreign Office and Middle Eastern oil,
1908-39..- Fiona Venn.- 3. The de Bunsen Mission to South
America, 1918..- John Fisher.- 4. The Age of Illusion? The
Department of Overseas Trade between the two World Wars: three case
studies..- Miklos Lójko.- 5. Sir Ronald Lindsay, the
British Government and the Reparation (Recovery) Act,
1927–8..- Gaynor Johnson.- 6. Imperial Solutions to
International Crises: alliances, trade and the Ottawa Imperial
Economic Conference of 1932..- Francine McKenzie.- 7. The
Foreign Office, foreign policy and commerce: Anglo-German relations
in the 1930s..- Neil Forbes.- 8. Interpreting the ‘New
Order in East Asia’: The City of London and British policy towards
the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–9..- Antony Best.- 9. British
Industry and US-UK Economic Diplomacy during the Second World
War..- Thomas Mills.- 10. Power Relations: The Foreign
Office, the Board of Trade and the development of civil nuclear
power, 1945–70..- Stephen Twigge.- 11. ‘Keeping Her
Powder Dry’: Turkey’s commercial ties with Britain in the
1940s..- Aysegul Sever.- 12. The Foreign Office, the
Board of Trade and Anglo-Italian Relations in the Aftermath of the
Second World War..- Effie G. H. Pedaliu.- 13. Britain and
Antarctica: keeping the economic dimension in its
place.- Peter J. Beck.- 14. Anglo-Spanish Commercial
Relations, 1946–50..- Victor Gavin.- 15. When Strategic
Foreign Policy Considerations Did Not Trump Economics: British cold
war policies on East-West trade..- Alan
Dobson.- 16. The Business of Decolonization: the Foreign
Office, British business, and the end of empire in Kuwait and
Qatar..- Simon Smith.- 17. The ForeignOffice and
Preparing for the first United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development..- Edward Johnson.- 18. Commerce as a
British Cold War ‘Heresy’: the intra-NATO debate on trade with
the Soviet Bloc, 1962–5.- Evanthis Hatzivassiliou.- 19.
The British Government, the Oil Companies and the First
Oil Crisis, 1970–3
Francesco Petrini.- 20. British Policy towards Socialist
Countries in the 1970s: trade as a cornerstone of
détente..- Angela Romano.- 21. ‘Paying our Way in the
World’: the FCO, export promotion and Iran in the
1970s..- Richard Smith.- 22. Thwarting Thatcher: Britain,
Nigeria and the Rhodesian crisis in 1979..- William
Bishop.- 23. The opening of China and British foreign trade
policy 1978–82..- Ed Hampshire.- 24. Commercial
Diplomatic Policy and Practice: a practitioner’s
perspective..- Sir Roger Carrick
John Fisher is Associate Head of History at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), UK, and the author of several books, including British Diplomacy and the Descent into Chaos (2012).
Effie G. H. Pedaliu is Fellow at LSE IDEAS, UK. She specialises in international history; the Cold War; Mediterranean Security; British and American Cold War diplomacy and strategy.
Richard Smith is Senior Historian at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, UK, and editor of Documents on British Policy Overseas.
“This volume provides useful empirical evidence of the dangers of diffusing the oversight of external concerns through multiple competing ministries … . For anyone seeking to understand the immense complexity of commercial diplomacy, and to gain a grasp of the trajectory of this core area of diplomatic activity, this is an invaluable volume, and likely to become a standard work.” (Erik Goldstein, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 55 (2), 2020)“This volume of collected essays on the history of British commercial diplomacy across the twentieth century, edited by three specialists in British foreign policy, is … both extremely timely and very welcome. … Overall, the volume makes an important contribution to the study of diplomacy, with the combined emphasis on the need for a wide range of perspectives on the importance of commercial matters, and the value of multi-archival research.” (Sue Onslow, H-Net Reviews Humanities and Social Sciences, networks.h-net.org, September, 2019)
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