The Foreign Office and British Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century

Abstract

1. The Foreign Office and British Foreign Policy: Adaptation and Resistance 2. Empire and Europe: The Foreign Office and Foreign Policy, 1890-1914 3. Lord Curzon as Acting Foreign Secretary, Jan-Oct 1919 4. Adapting to a New World? British Foreign Policy in the 1920s 5. The Foreign Office 1930-1939: Permanent Interests and National Security 6. The Foreign Office, Anglo-American Relations, and the Pursuit of 'Power by Proxy', 1952-1957 7. Splendid Isolation to Finest Hour: Britain as a Global Power, 1900-1950 8. From Carbon Paper to E-mail: Changes in Methods in the Foreign Office, 1950-2000 9. The Input of the Paris Embassy to the British 'Great Debate' on Europe, Summer 1960 10. Thirty Years in the FCO: From Coal Scuttle to Computer 11. Accommodating Diplomacy: Plans for Reconstruction and Renovation of the Foreign Office's Main Building during the Heath and Wilson Governments 12. Skin of the Teeth: Why did Wilton Park Outlive the Twentieth Century? Afterword