Foreign Policies of the Great Powers: The Mirage of Power : British Foreign Policy 1902-14

by Lowe, C. J.; Dockrill, M. L.

• ISBN13: 9780415266765
• ISBN10: 0415266769
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Preface	x
Abbreviations	xii
The Anglo-French Entente	1	(28)
Introduction	1	(3)
The Negotiation of the Entente	4	(7)
The First Moroccan Crisis	11	(4)
Grey, Algeciras and the Strengthening of the Entente	15	(14)
Britain, France and Germany, 1908-12	29	(30)
Introduction: Anglo-German Naval Rivalry and the Hague Conference	29	(2)
Anglo-German Negotiations, 1908-11	31	(6)
The Agadir Crisis	37	(11)
Anglo-German Relations, 1912	48	(4)
Britain, France and the Mediterranean	52	(7)
Anglo-Russian Relations and the Middle East	59	(37)
The Anglo-Russian Convention	59	(7)
Aftermath: Anglo-Russian Relations and Persia	66	(11)
England and Turkey	77	(4)
The Bosnian Crisis	81	(5)
The Baghdad Railway	86	(6)
The Tripoli War	92	(4)
Anglo-American Relations, 1895-1914	96	(11)
The Myth of Anglo-American Friendship	96	(6)
The Mexican Revolution	102	(5)
Britain and Europe, 1912-14	107	(45)
The Balkan Wars	107	(11)
Anglo-German Relations, 1912-14	118	(9)
England, the Near East and Turkey to 1914	127	(4)
The Baghdad Railway and the Gulf	131	(2)
Anglo-Russian Relations	133	(5)
England, Germany and the Triple Entente, 1914	138	(3)
The Coming of War	141	(11)
Conclusion	152	(3)
Notes	155	(220)
Index	xiii
Abbreviations	ix
Introduction	xi
Strategy and Foreign Policy	169	(39)
Italian Intervention	169	(14)
The Balkan States	183	(25)
The Middle East, 1914-18	208	(26)
The Negotiations with Sharif Husain	208	(11)
The Anglo-French-Russian Agreement	219	(4)
The St Jean de Maurienne Agreement	223	(4)
Zionism	227	(7)
War Aims and Peace Terms	234	(41)
Grey Opposes a Negotiated Peace	234	(22)
A Separate Peace	256	(4)
Kuhlmann's Peace Offensive	260	(5)
Peace without Annexations	265	(10)
The Far East	275	(29)
Anglo-Japanese Collaboration, 1902-15	275	(16)
Alarm in the Foreign Office at Japanese Ambitions in China	291	(7)
Shantung and the Washington Treaty	298	(6)
Britain and the Russian Revolution	304	(31)
Until the Armistice	304	(17)
The Limits of Military Intervention	321	(7)
Towards a Settlement	328	(7)
The Peace Settlement, 1919-22	335	(40)
The Dominance of Lloyd George	335	(3)
The Treaty of Versailles	338	(11)
Enforcement of the Treaty	349	(8)
The Middle East	357	(7)
Peace with Turkey	364	(11)
Conclusion	375	(5)
Notes	380	(31)
Bibliography	411
Index	xv
The Documents	423