Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century (eBook)

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.

Introduction John Fisher, Effie Pedaliu & Richard Smith1. ‘A kind of black hole?’: commercial diplomacy before 1914.T. G. Otte2. In pursuit of national security: the Foreign Office and Middle Eastern oil, 1908-39.Fiona Venn3. The de Bunsen Mission to South America, 1918.John Fisher4. The Age of Illusion? The Department of Overseas Trade between the two World Wars: three case studies.Miklos Lójko5. Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Government and the Reparation (Recovery) Act, 1927–8.Gaynor Johnson6. Imperial Solutions to International Crises: alliances, trade and the Ottawa Imperial Economic Conference of 1932.Francine McKenzie7. The Foreign Office, foreign policy and commerce: Anglo-German relations in the 1930s.Neil Forbes8. Interpreting the ‘New Order in East Asia’: The City of London and British policy towards the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–9.Antony Best9. British Industry and US-UK Economic Diplomacy during the Second World War.Thomas Mills10. Power Relations: The Foreign Office, the Board of Trade and the development of civil nuclear power, 1945–70.Stephen Twigge11. ‘Keeping Her Powder Dry’: Turkey’s commercial ties with Britain in the 1940s.Aysegul Sever12. The Foreign Office, the Board of Trade and Anglo-Italian Relations in the Aftermath of the Second World War.Effie G. H. Pedaliu13. Britain and Antarctica: keeping the economic dimension in its place.Peter J. Beck14.  Anglo-Spanish Commercial Relations, 1946–50.Victor Gavin15. When Strategic Foreign Policy Considerations Did Not Trump Economics: British cold war policies on East-West trade.Alan Dobson16. The Business of Decolonization: the Foreign Office, British business, and the end of empire in Kuwait and Qatar.Simon Smith17. The Foreign Office and Preparing for the first United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.Edward Johnson18. Commerce as a British Cold War ‘Heresy’: the intra-NATO debate on trade with the Soviet Bloc, 1962–5Evanthis Hatzivassiliou19. The British Government, the Oil Companies and the First Oil Crisis, 1970–3Francesco Petrini20. British Policy towards Socialist Countries in the 1970s: trade as a cornerstone of détente.Angela Romano21. ‘Paying our Way in the World’: the FCO, export promotion and Iran in the 1970s.Richard Smith22. Thwarting Thatcher: Britain, Nigeria and the Rhodesian crisis in 1979.William Bishop23. The opening of China and British foreign trade policy 1978–82.Ed Hampshire24. Commercial Diplomatic Policy and Practice: a practitioner’s perspective.Sir Roger Carrick