Books in the International Relations and the Great Powers series

The first study of its kind in English, the book examines the subtle forces that have shaped France's international relations, from material aspects such as geography, demography, and economics, to more abstract features of France's national identity such as the notion of state and the impulse to spread French culture.

This book examines the main phases of British foreign policy from the 1890s to the 1990s. It not only explores major events, but also looks well beyond traditional diplomacy, taking in strategic, technological, economic, and ideological factors, as well as looking at subjects of the rise of propaganda agencies and the intelligence community.

Based on a wide range of sources, including Russian materials that have become available since the end of the Cold War, this work differs from many standard accounts in its emphasis of the factional nature of decision-making over external strategies and its description of competing strains in Soviet thinking about the outside world.