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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Bolton Institute, the British International History Group, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Institute of Contemporary British History for their generous support for the project on which this book is based. In particular, He is grateful to Eamonn Clifford, Keith Hamilton, Michael Kandiah, Dr Martin Longden, Heather Yasamee, Professor John Young and Sir Michael Jay, the present Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Andrew Humphreys and Cathy Jennings at Frank Cass/Taylor and Francis have provided prompt and good-humoured advice as have the editors of Contemporary British History, Kevin Ruane and Peter Catterall. I would also like to extend a public word of thanks to Baron Owen of Plymouth for agreeing to write the preface to this volume.
GAYNOR JOHNSON
Bolton Institute
February 2004
Notes on Contributors
Alyson J.K. Bailes, CMG, is Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). She was a member of Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service from 1969 to 2002, ending her career as British Ambassador to Helsinki. Her other postings included Budapest, the British Delegation to NATO, Bonn, Beijing and Oslo. She also spent periods on loan to the Ministry of Defence, the Western European Union in Brussels and the East West Institute in New York.
Sir Alan Campbell, CMG, KCMG, GCMG Among his appointments, Sir Alan was Ambassador to Ethiopia, 196972; Assistant Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 197274; Deputy Under-Secretary, 197476; Ambassador to Italy, 197679 and Director of National Westminster Bank, 197989. He is the author of Colleagues and Friends (1988) and has contributed articles to International Affairs and to the New Dictionary of National Biography.
John Charmley is Dean of the School of History at the University of East Anglia, where he has taught since 1979. He is author of eight books, including the controversial Churchill: The End of Glory (1993) and, most recently, Splendid Isolation? Britain and the Balance of Power 18741914 (1999). He is currently working on a book on Princess Lieven and British foreign policy, 181234.
James Ellison is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary History at Queen Mary, University of London. He teaches and researches post-1945 British foreign policy and has particular interest in Britain's relations with Europe and the United States. He is the author of Threatening Europe: Britain and the Creation of the European Community, 19551958 (2000) and is currently writing a book about Anglo-American relations and Europe in the 1960s.
Sean Greenwood is a Research Professor in Modern History at Canterbury Christ Church University College, where he was the Head of the Department of History until 2003. He has published on a range of topics dealing with British foreign policy since the 1930s, most recently a contribution to a Nobel Symposium assessing the last ten years of the Cold War. Currently he is engaged in writing a biography of the distinguished diplomat Lord Gladwyn.
Keith Hamilton is Senior Editor of Documents on British Policy Overseas and historian in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. His publications include Bertie of Thame: Edwardian Ambassador (1990), The Practice of Diplomacy: Its Evolution, Theory and Administration (1995, with Richard Langhorne), and The Last Cold War Warriors: Britain, Dtente and the CSCE, 19721975 (1999). He is currently editing a collection of British documents on The Year of Europe: America, Europe and the Energy Crisis, 197274, the first part of which will be published in 2005 on CD-ROM.
Gaynor Johnson is Senior Lecturer at the Bolton Institute. She is the author of The Berlin Embassy of Lord D'Abernon, 19201926 (2002); the editor of Locarno Revisited: European Diplomacy, 19201929 (2004); Our Man in Berlin: The Diary of Sir Eric Phipps 19331937 (2004); and with Matthew Hughes, Fanaticism in the Modern Era (2004). She is currently writing a biography of Viscount Cecil of Chelwood.
Richard Langhorne is Director of the Center for Global Change and Governance at Rutgers University. He was previously Director of Wilton Park, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 199396. He is the author of The Collapse of the Concert of Europe (1982), The Practice of Diplomacy (1995, with Keith Hamilton), The Coming of Globalization (2001), and has edited the Guide to Diplomacy and International Relations (2002).
B.J.C. McKercher is Professor of International History and Chair of War Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada. An expert on inter-war British foreign policy, and his major books include Esme Howard: A Diplomatic Biography (1989) and Transition of Power: Britain's Loss of Global Pre-Eminence to the United States, 19301945 (1999). With Erik Goldstein, he edited and contributed to Power and Stability: British Foreign Policy, 18651965 (2003).
Peter Neville teaches history at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Appeasing Hitler: The Diplomacy of Sir Nevile Henderson 19379 (2000), and a contributor to the Munich Crisis: Prelude to World War Two (1999). His latest book is Mussolini (2003).
T.G. Otte is a Lecturer in Diplomatic/International History at the University of East Anglia. He is editor of
