British foreign and defence policy since 1945: challenges and dilemmas in a changing world
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Tables and Maps
ix
List of Abbreviations
xi
1
Introduction: Britain s Place in a Changing World
1
From superpower to global hub
1
Trying (and failing) to adjust to harsh realities?
5
Traditionalist versus transformationalist perspectives
7
2
British Power and the Burden of History
13
The rise of British imperial power
13
New threats and challenges: the British Empire and the
resource gap before
1914 16
The First World War and its legacy
20
Foreign and defence policy challenges of the
1930s 22
The Second World War and the consequences of relative
economic decline
27
Continuity and consensus in post-war foreign and defence
policy
31
Ernest Bevin and the foundations of the post-war foreign
policy consensus
34
3
From Empire to Commonwealth
40
The imperial legacy and the test of war
40
The withdrawal from Empire, phase
1:
India and Palestine
42
Retrenchment and resistance,
1945-57 47
The Suez crisis,
1956:
the last blast of imperialism?
50
Withdrawal from Empire, phase
2:
Harold Macmillan and
the Wind of Change
55
Forces driving the process of decolonisation
59
Constraints upon Britain s imperial retreat
60
Britain and the transition to black majority rule in southern
Africa
62
Fighting for the
Falklands
64
Britain and the Commonwealth of Nations
68
Britain and European decolonisation: a comparative
perspective
70
vi
Contents
Britain, the Atlantic Alliance and the Special Relationship
74
Wartime cooperation and conflict
74
Ernest Bevin and the policy of containment
77
Fluctuating fortunes: Churchill, Eden and Macmillan,
1951-63 83
The Atlantic alliance in decline,
1964-79 86
Special once more? Thatcher, Major, Reagan and Bush,
1979-97 87
New Labour, Clinton and George W. Bush
94
Gordon Brown and our most important bilateral
relationship
101
The nature of the Special Relationship
103
Special Relationships : a sectoral perspective
105
Anglo-American relations since
1945:
a cost-benefit
analysis
107
Britain and Europe 111
Paying the Price of Victory 111
Britain and the limits of cooperation,
1945-55 117
Missing the boat : Britain s first two applications,
1955-69 120
Edward Heath s European crusade and Labour s
referendum,
1970-79 126
Margaret Thatcher and the
EU
budget,
1979-84 129
The Single European Act (SEA), the
Delors
Report and
monetary union,
1984-90 132
John Major: a change of tone but not substance
134
Tony Blair and the Europeanisation of New Labour
136
New Labour, the euro, the Constitutional Treaty and other
problems
142
Gordon Brown and selective Europeanism since
2007 146
New Labour and the
EU:
continuity and change
150
The Problems of Conventional Defence
152
British military power: reacting to economic decline or
adjusting to change
? 152
Disillusioned hopes of military power with reduced
expenditure,
1945-57 159
Duncan Sandys and the defence White Paper of
1957 162
The Wilson governments and the retreat from East of Suez
165
The Thatcher governments and the Way Forward
168
Options for Change in a world turned upside down,
1989-97 171
Contents
vii
New
Labour
and hopes of delivering security in a changing
world
173
Too many commitments, too little money? Defence funding
since
1997 176
Blair, Brown and the crisis of military overstretch
180
Expenditure priorities and the failures of defence
procurement
186
Conventional defence forces since
1945:
Plus
ça
change
... 188
7
Britain and the Bomb: The Quest for a Nuclear Deterrent
192
Wartime collaboration and US betrayal
194
The Artlee government and the independent nuclear
deterrent
197
Churchill and the hydrogen bomb
200
Great power status
-
but at a price
202
Trying (and failing) to keep up with the superpowers
205
The Thatcher government and the purchase of Trident
207
New Labour and the upgrading of Trident
209
The US connection and the son of Star Wars
214
8
New Labour, the Ethical Dimension and Liberal
Intervention
216
Labour s commitment to an ethical dimension in British
foreign policy
216
New Labour and human rights abroad
220
New Labour, ethics and arms exports
225
The arms trade, bribery and the control of international
corruption
231
International development and developing world debt
relief
234
Climate change and the environmental agenda
241
The Blair doctrine , liberal intervention and the Kosovo
campaign
242
Afghanistan, the Taliban and the war on terror
245
Saddam Hussein, Operation Desert Fox and the Iraq War
248
Gordon Brown and the Responsibility to Protect
250
The ethical dimension in retrospect
252
9
Making Foreign and Defence Policy in a Changing World
255
The complexity of the foreign policy process in Britain
255
Executive dominance in the formulation of foreign policy
259
Who makes British defence policy?
264
viii Contents
Outside the magic circle: who is excluded from the policy
process?
268
Executive Overload and the problem of priorities
270
The problems of long-term planning and horizon-scanning
272
Redefining the role of the
FCO
within a challenging
Whitehall environment
274
Reviewing Britain s overseas representation
279
A much too Diplomatic Service? Defending the national
interest
282
Reforming the composition and career structure: the
Foresight initiative
283
The role of the intelligence services
284
10
Conclusion: the Challenge of an Uncertain Future
288
The changing international environment after
1945 288
Continuity and change in British policy
289
The challenge of the unknown: redefining the threat
291
Devising a strategy for an uncertain world
295
Britain s position in the world
—
the more that changes the
more that stays the same
299
Useful Websites for Foreign and Defence Sources
302
Bibliography
303
Index
327
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