An Anglo-German Dialogue: The Munich Lectures on the History of International Relations

Contents: Introduction: Personality, Image and Perception: Patterns and Problems of Anglo-German Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries / Magnus Brechtken; - Part I. Keeping the Balance - Britain and Europe in the 19th Century. Systemic and Domestic Factors: -- Great Britain and the Continental Revolutions of 1848 / Alan Sked; The Place of Germany in Salisbury's Foreign Policy, 1878-1902 / David Steele; Defending the Empire: Lord Salisbury and Europe, 1886-1892 / Richard Shannon; - Part II. Personality and Foreign Policy in the Age of Imperialism - An Anglo-German Comparison: -- The Kaiser and England / John C.G. Röhl; The Monarch's Concept of Foreign Policy: Victoria and Edward VII / Keith Robbins; The Crisis of the Anglo-German Antagonism, 1916-17 / Michael Howard; - Part III. Perceptions and Designs in Anglo-German Relations: -- Gustav Stresemann's Concept of International Relations / Jonathan Wright; Britain and Germany, 1937-1939: A Context for British Reactions to the German Resistance / David Dilks; Willy Brandt's "Neue Ostpolitik": British Perceptions and Positions, 1969-1975 / Roger Morgan; - Part IV: Retreat from the World Stage: Contradictions and Tensions in British Postwar Foreign Policy: -- Between Europe and Empire: Britain's Changing Role in World Politics since 1945 / John Darwin; The End of Empire and British Political Culture / Robert Holland; The British-American "Special Relationship" and Secret Intelligence since the Second World War / Christopher Andrew; - Part V: Great Britain and Europe Since the End of the Second World War: -- Britain and Europe after 1945 / Asa Briggs; Conservative Governments and the Challenge of European Integration, 1984-1997 / John W. Young; Labour, New Labour, and European Integration, 1945-1999 / Anne Deighton