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On the Fringes of Diplomacy - Influences on British Foreign Policy, 1800-1945 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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On the Fringes of Diplomacy - Influences on British Foreign Policy, 1800-1945 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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In recent decades the study of British foreign policy and diplomacy
has broadened in focus. No longer is it enough for historians to
look at the actions of the elite figures - diplomats and foreign
secretaries - in isolation; increasingly the role of their advisers
and subordinates, and those on the fringes of the diplomatic world,
is recognised as having exerted critical influence on key decisions
and policies. This volume gives further impetus to this revelation,
honing in on the fringes of British diplomacy through a selection
of case studies of individuals who were able to influence policy.
By contextualising each study, the volume explores the wider
circles in which these individuals moved, exploring the broader
issues affecting the processes of foreign policy. Not the least of
these is the issue of official mindsets and of networks of
influence in Britain and overseas, inculcated, for example, in the
leading public schools, at the Universities of Oxford and
Cambridge, and in gentlemen's clubs in London's West End. As such
the volume contributes to the growing literature on human agency as
well as mentalite studies in the history of international
relations. Moreover it also highlights related themes which have
been insufficiently studied by international historians, for
example, the influence that outside groups such as missionaries and
the press had on the shaping of foreign policy and the role that
strategy, intelligence and the experience of war played in the
diplomatic process. Through such an approach the workings of
British diplomacy during the high-tide of empire is revealed in new
and intriguing ways.
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