The Realities Behind Diplomacy: Background Influences on British External Policy 1865-1980

Politics & Social Sciences

Kennedy, Paul M.

Politics & Government

Routledge

Strategy and Diplomacy 1870-1945

History

Europe

Harpercollins

Paul Kennedy's absorbing and detailed work examines the reasons for Britain's rise and fall as a dominant sea power, from the Tudors to the present day. Challenging the traditional view that the British are natural "sons of the waves", he suggests instead that the country's fortunes as a significant maritime force have always been bound up with its economic growth. He also considers the implications not only for the future of the British Navy, but also for the defence policies of government.Setting naval history within a framework of national, international, economic, political and strategic considerations, Kennedy offers a fresh approach to one of the central and enduring questions in British history.

The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery

Fontana Press

The Realities Behind Diplomacy

Unwin Hyman

Strategy and Diplomacy, 1870-1945: Eight Studies by Paul Kennedy

Strategy and Diplomacy, 1870-1945: Eight Studies

George Allen Unwin

This study describes how the past 500 years shows that nations which became great powers had to decline as their growth rate slowed and their spending on defence continued to increase and explains how this can be eased or worsened by clever or short-sighted policy decisions. The final chapter looks at the current dilemna of the USA, the USSR, the EEC, Japan and China, and peers. Paul Kennedy also wrote "Strategy and Diplomacy, 1870-1945" and "The Realities Behind Diplomacy, 1865-1980"

The rise and fall of the great powers: Economic change and military conflict from 1500 to 2000

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The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860-1914

Military

Since its first publication in 1980, Professor Kennedy's masterly account of the rivalry between Great Britain and Germany in the period leading to the First World War has established itself as the definitive work on the subject.Over ten years of research in more than sixty archives in Britain and Germany culminated in this full-scale, meticulous analysis. The result reaches far beyond a diplomatic narrative of relations between the two countries. It concerns itself with a thorough comparison of the two societies, their political cultures, economies, party politics, courts, the role of the press and pressure groups, and other factors. The work therefore contributes to the larger debate on the nature of foreign policy, as well as to the specific controversies over the British-German antagonisms that eventually led to war.

Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism: 1860-1914

The Samoan tangle: A study in Anglo-German-American relations, 1878-1900

Americas

Barnes&Noble

In this first detailed examination of the History of British sea power since Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power on History, Professor Kennedy argues that Britain's naval strength has always been bound up with her economic growth and decline. In placing emphasis upon the economic factor, in calling into question Britain's 'natural' bias towards the overseas and maritime world, and in analysing her fall as a naval, colonial and economic Great Power, Kennedy offers a fresh approach to the studyof British naval history and a challenge to traditional assumptions and historiography about the Royal Navy.

Classic History Rise And Fall Of British Naval Mastery

Penguin Uk

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