Thatcher's diplomacy : the revival of British foreign policy
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Thatcher's diplomacy : the revival of British foreign policy
(Contemporary history in context series)
Macmillan , St. Martin's Press, 1997
- : uk
- : us
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"In association with Institute of Contemporary British History" -- T.p.
Bibliography: p. 264-265
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: us ISBN 9780312164409
Description
Sharp (political science, U. of Minnesota) reviews Margaret Thatcher's career as an international stateswoman, providing a more sympathetic approach to her international record than academia's generally unflattering treatment. He assesses British foreign policy and diplomacy before and under Thatch
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: uk ISBN 9780333658420
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This book provides an assessment of Thatcher's foreign policy throughout her years in office, 1979-90. Successive chapters cover her partnership with Carrington, the Falklands War, Thatcher's American policy, her fights with the EC over money and institutional development, her relationship with Gorbachev, and the failure of her German policy. The main argument is that Thatcher's attempt to reconcile economic liberalism with political nationalism in a more assertive foreign policy prefigured the emerging statecraft of post-Cold War great power politics.
Table of Contents
- The pursuit of influence
- foreign policy and the 1979 election campaign
- the Thatcher-Carrington partnership
- the diplomacy of disaster, losing the falklands
- recovering the falklands, the diplomacy of War
- thatcher's US Policy I, the diplomacy of support
- Thatcher's US Policy II, the diplomacy of interests
- Thatcher's European Policy I, the demandeur
- Thatcher's European Policy II, sovereignty and nationalism
- Thatcher's Soviet Policy, diplomacy at the summit
- Thatcher's German Policy, the 'Unambiguous Failure'
- Thatcher's statesmanship.
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