The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century

Introduction.- John Fisher, Effie Pedaliu & Richard Smith.- 1. ‘A kind of black hole?’: commercial diplomacy before 1914..- T. G. Otte.- 2. In pursuit of national security: the Foreign Office and Middle Eastern oil, 1908-39..- Fiona Venn.- 3. The de Bunsen Mission to South America, 1918..- John Fisher.- 4. The Age of Illusion? The Department of Overseas Trade between the two World Wars: three case studies..- Miklos Lójko.- 5. Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Government and the Reparation (Recovery) Act, 1927–8..- Gaynor Johnson.- 6. Imperial Solutions to International Crises: alliances, trade and the Ottawa Imperial Economic Conference of 1932..- Francine McKenzie.- 7. The Foreign Office, foreign policy and commerce: Anglo-German relations in the 1930s..- Neil Forbes.- 8. Interpreting the ‘New Order in East Asia’: The City of London and British policy towards the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–9..- Antony Best.- 9. British Industry and US-UK Economic Diplomacy during the Second World War..- Thomas Mills.- 10. Power Relations: The Foreign Office, the Board of Trade and the development of civil nuclear power, 1945–70..- Stephen Twigge.- 11. ‘Keeping Her Powder Dry’: Turkey’s commercial ties with Britain in the 1940s..- Aysegul Sever.- 12. The Foreign Office, the Board of Trade and Anglo-Italian Relations in the Aftermath of the Second World War..- Effie G. H. Pedaliu.- 13. Britain and Antarctica: keeping the economic dimension in its place.- Peter J. Beck.- 14. Anglo-Spanish Commercial Relations, 1946–50..- Victor Gavin.- 15. When Strategic Foreign Policy Considerations Did Not Trump Economics: British cold war policies on East-West trade..- Alan Dobson.- 16. The Business of Decolonization: the Foreign Office, British business, and the end of empire in Kuwait and Qatar..- Simon Smith.- 17. The ForeignOffice and Preparing for the first United Nations Conference on Trade and Development..- Edward Johnson.- 18. Commerce as a British Cold War ‘Heresy’: the intra-NATO debate on trade with the Soviet Bloc, 1962–5.- Evanthis Hatzivassiliou.- 19. The British Government, the Oil Companies and the First Oil Crisis, 1970–3
Francesco Petrini.- 20. British Policy towards Socialist Countries in the 1970s: trade as a cornerstone of détente..- Angela Romano.- 21. ‘Paying our Way in the World’: the FCO, export promotion and Iran in the 1970s..- Richard Smith.- 22. Thwarting Thatcher: Britain, Nigeria and the Rhodesian crisis in 1979..- William Bishop.- 23. The opening of China and British foreign trade policy 1978–82..- Ed Hampshire.- 24. Commercial Diplomatic Policy and Practice: a practitioner’s perspective..- Sir Roger Carrick