A major re-interpretation of international relations in the period
from 1919 to 1939. Avoiding such simplistic explanations as
appeasement and British decline, Keith Neilson demonstrates that
the underlying cause of the Second World War was the intellectual
failure to find an effective means of maintaining the new world
order created in 1919. With secret diplomacy, alliances and the
balance of power seen as having caused the First World War, the
makers of British policy after 1919 were forced to rely on such
instruments of liberal internationalism as arms control, the League
of Nations and global public opinion to preserve peace. Using
Britain's relations with Soviet Russia as a focus for a
re-examination of Britain's dealings with Germany and Japan, this
book shows that these tools were inadequate to deal with the
physical and ideological threats posed by Bolshevism, fascism,
Nazism and Japanese militarism.
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