Strategy and diplomacy (1870-1945)

Some of the most important themes in modern international history are covered in this volume of essays. Professor Kennedy's approach deliberately ignores any narrow examination of military history, and explores instead the interrelationships between strategic, diplomatic, economic and geographical factors. The emphasis is upon the long-term alterations in global politics, particularly as they affected Great Britain and its empire.

Among the topics discussed are the tradition of appeasement in British foreign policy, sea power versus land power, the conflict between Britain's strategical interests and its financial requirements, German and Japanese military policies, arms races and the causes of war before 1945, and the decline of the The problems addressed by these essays are those which exercise students of nineteenth- and twentieth-century international British Empire. history, at universities, colleges and military academies, and this book will be of special interest to them.