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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783743603321

Autore

White Brian <1947, >

Titolo

Britain, detente, and changing East-West relations / / Brian White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992

ISBN

1-134-89876-2

1-280-32667-0

0-203-30981-2

1-134-89877-0

0-203-19459-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Disciplina

327.41

Soggetti

World politics - 1945-1989

East and West

Detente

Great Britain Foreign relations 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-198) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The concept of detente; Britain, the cold war and detente; Britain as a catalyst of detente; Britain and the Partial Test Ban Treaty; The decline of British influence on East-West relations; Britain, the new cold war and detente; A British conception of detente; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

There is little systematic analysis available of Britain's contribution to East-West relations since 1945, and in particular of Britain's contribution to East-West detente. In general, British attempts to act as mediator between East and West have been regarded as ineffectual, and a rather desperate attempt to prove that Britain could still wield influence on the world stage.In this new contribution to the study of the evolution of post-war international relations, Brian White argues that Britain's contribution to detente cannot so easily be dismissed. Through narrative and analysis,