T.G. Otte - Personalities, War and Diplomacy: Essays in International History

PERSONALITIES, WAR
AND DIPLOMACY

Essays in International History

Edited by
T.G. Otte amd Constantine A. Pagedas

With a Preface by Roy Jenkins

First published in 1997 by
FRANK CASS PUBLISHERS

This edition published 2013 by Routledge
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Copyright 1997 Contributors

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Personalities, war and diplomacy: essays in international history
1. Personality and history 2. Diplomacy 3. War
I. Otte, Thomas G., 1967 II. Pagedas, Constantine A.
327.20922
ISBN 0 7146 4818 3

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Personalities, war and diplomacy: essays in international history /
edited by T.G. Otte and Constantine A. Pagedas.
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7146-4818-3
1. World politics 20th century 2. Military history,
Modern 20th century. 3. Statesmen History 20th century
I. Otte, Thomas G., 1967. II. Pagedas, Constantine A., 1969
D443.P387 1997 97-16760
909.8dc21 CIP

Unpublished Crown copyright material from the Public Record Office at Kew appears by permission of Her Majestys Stationery Office. Extracts from the Baldwin Papers are quoted with the kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. Material from the Halifax Collection is quoted with the permission of the British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections. The Masters, Fellows and Scholars of Churchill College have kindly granted us permission to quote from the papers of Lord Hankey and Sir Eric Phipps, which are held at Churchill College Archives Centre, Cambridge. Extracts from the papers of Sir Charles Dilke, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, and the Earl of Balfour are quoted by kind permission of the British Library. The Bodleian Library kindly gave permission to quote from the papers of Sir Eyre Crowe, Sir Francis Oppenheimer, Lord Simon and Gilbert Murray. Material from the papers of Neville and Austen Chamberlain is quoted with the permission of Birmingham University Library. Finally, Chapter 10, Defence Sufficiency and the Military-Political Conception of Nikita Khrushchev by Dr Sergei Khrushchev, is based on an earlier paper by Dr Khrushchev, presented to the Khrushchev Centennial Conference at Brown University in December 1994, and to be published in Nikita Khrushchev Last Communist. Our sincerest apologies are due to anyone whose copyright we may have infringed unwittingly.

Dr Erik Goldstein is Reader at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham. He is the editor of Diplomacy and Statecraft, and author of Winning the Peace (1991), War & Peace Treaties, 18161991 (1992), and co-editor of The End of the Cold War (1990) and The Washington Conference, 192122 (1994).

Dr Sergei N. Khrushchev is a Visiting Senior Scholar at the Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Institute for International Studies at Brown University. Apart from numerous articles on his father and on contemporary Russian affairs, he is the editor of the Nikita S. Khrushchev memoirs and has recently published Khrushchev on Khrushchev (1991) which has been translated into several languages.

Tadashi Kuramatsu is at the Department of International History at the London School of Economics. He has previously published learned papers on aspects of Anglo-Japanese-US Naval relations in the 1920s.

Professor Pierre-Henri Laurent is Professor of European History at Tufts University. He has published widely in European and North American scholarly journals. His major publications are contributions to The Reshaping of Europe, 19441949 (1984), The European Economic Community Today (1986), La Politique communautaire (1986), The United States and the European Community (1989), The End of the Cold War (1990), Making the New Europe (1990), and The External Relations of the European Community (1991); and he is editor of The European Community after Twenty Years (1978) and The European Community: To Maastricht and Beyond (1994).

Dr W. Scott Lucas is a Senior Lecturer in the School of History at the University of Birmingham. Apart from numerous contributions to scholarly journals and edited books, he is the author of Divided We Stand (1991, reissued 1996), co-editor of Post-War Britain: Themes and Perspectives, 194564 (1989) and has recently edited a document collection on the Suez crisis. He is currently completing a book on American propaganda and the origins of the Cold War.

Dr John H. Maurer is an Associate Professor at the Strategy Department of the United States Naval War College. He is also the assistant editor of Diplomacy & Statecraft. He is co-editor of Military Intervention in the Third World (1984) and has recently published The Outbreak of the First World War (1995).

Dr Kendrick Oliver is a Lecturer at the Department of History at the University of Southampton. His study on Anglo-American relations and the nuclear test ban debate in the early 1960s is forthcoming in 1997.

Dr Thomas G. Otte is a Visiting Lecturer at the Universities of Buckingham, Birmingham and Cambridge (Madingley Hall). He has published widely in scholarly journals on aspects of nineteenth and twentieth century international history. He is also the co-editor of Military Intervention (1995).

Dr Constantine A. Pagedas is a political and defence analyst based in Washington, DC. He has contributed to both scholarly journals and books on aspects of Anglo-American nuclear relations with France.

Dr Glyn Stone is Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He is the author of Oldest Ally: Britain and the Portuguese Connection, 19361941 (1994) and the co-editor of Decisions and Diplomacy (1995).

Dr Jonathan Wright is a Student and Tutor at Christ Church, Oxford. He has published widely on aspects of Modern German history in both German and English. He has recently completed a biography of Gustav Stresemann.

This is a most interesting collection of essays by a group of eleven academics of widely differing backgrounds (Nikita Krushchevs son, currently attached to Brown University, Rhode Island, is, for instance, among them) who have been brought together by the energy of the joint editors and by a common interest in twentieth-century diplomatic history (interpreting the word diplomatic in its widest foreign policy and military sense) and a curiosity about the impact of personality upon it.