Conservatism and Foreign Policy During the Lloyd George Coalition 1918-1922

by Rose,Inbal

• ISBN13: 9780714648682
• ISBN10: 071464868X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

After the war of 1914-1918, Conservatives throughout Britain hoped to establish a peaceful and stable international system, consistent with traditional conservative foreign policy. How to pursue this course was, however, a matter of intense, at times fierce, internal controversy and debate. It was a debate not made easier by the formidable challenges, internal and external, that the post-1918 era presented to traditional Conservative foreign policy. Inbal Rose examines the evolution of Conservative foreign policy as tension between the traditional and the innovative that coloured Conservatives' criticism, positive and negative, of the major foreign policy issues of the day, and analyzes how this tension affected the development of traditional conservative foreign policy concepts and values.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	vi
Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction: The End of the War	viii
Demobilization and the General Election: The Challenge of Adjustment	1	(19)
The Paris Conference: The Need for Containment	20	(28)
Preserving the Peace I: The League of Nations	48	(21)
Preserving the Peace II: The Anglo-American Guarantee	69	(16)
Myth and Tradition in Conservative Foreign Policy	85	(22)
Atlanticism: The American Option	107	(27)
The Era of Conferences I: Conference Co-operation and Unity	134	(21)
Thinking Imperially: A Question of Empire	155	(23)
The Era of Conferences II: The French Connection	178	(25)
The Genoa Conference: A Dangerous Conspiracy	203	(25)
The Chanak Crisis: The Most Troublesome of All Questions	228	(37)
Conclusions: Conservatives, Coalition and Foreign Policy	254	(11)
Appendix A: Coalition Government: Conservative Ministers, 10 January 1919--19 October 1922	265	(4)
Appendix B: Conservative Party Leaders and Officials, 10 January 1919--10 October 1922	269	(1)
Appendix C: Pro-Coalition Conservative MPs, 1922	270	(1)
Appendix D: Anti-Coalition Conservative MPs, 1919--22	271	(1)
Bibliography	272	(11)
Index	283