Personalities, War and Diplomacy: Essays in International History

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T.G. Otte, C. Pagedas
Routledge, May 1, 2014 - History - 316 pages
Combines essays on the "personality dimension" in the 19th and 20th century international history, placing in a proper historical perspective the impact of individual diplomats, politicians and military strategists on foreign policy-making.
 

Contents

Personalities and Impersonal Forces in History
1
A Cognitive Map
14
Field Marshal Conrad von Hötzendorf and the Outbreak of the First World War
38
The British Official Mind and the United States 191942
66
Liberal or Realist?
81
Si vis pacem para pacem vs si vis pacem para bellum
105
Sir Robert Vansittart and Spain 19311941
127
Dwight Eisenhower and the Quest for Liberation
158
PaulHenri Spaak and European Integration
186
Defence Sufficiency and the MilitaryPolitical Conception of Nikita Khrushchev
213
John F Kennedy Nuclear Tests and the Politics of Cold War Foreign Policy
234
Harold Macmillan and AngloFrench Relations 19601963
254
Index
283
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