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Statelessness: A Modern History / Mira L. Siegelberg
Review Date: 27 November 2020
Mira Siegelberg’s important monograph retrieves and explores the debates in a range of different forums on a subject of fundamental significance: how, in the author’s words, ‘the problem of statelessness informed theories of rights, sovereignty, international legal order, and cosmopolitan justice, theories developed when the conceptual and political contours of the modern interstate order were being worked out, against the background of some of the most…
Guarantee of Peace: The League of Nations in British Policy 1914-1925 / Peter Yearwood
Review Date: 01 October 2009
Peter Yearwood has carried out impressively extensive research to produce this account of how British foreign policy was closely linked to the formation and operation of the League of Nations in its early years.
The Amiens Truce. Britain and Bonaparte, 1801–1803 / John Grainger
Review Date: 01 March 2005
This book charts the ‘experimental’ peace between Britain and France in 1801–1803, often regarded as little more than an interlude in the twenty-year struggle between the two.
Review Article: Early Stuart Foreign Policy / R. Malcolm Smuts
Review Date: 01 October 2004
Early Stuart foreign policy remains a relatively neglected topic, despite mounting evidence for the importance of international religious conflicts in British political culture and the strains imposed by the demands of war on the British state.
Splendid Isolation? Britain, the Balance of Power and the Origins of the First World War / John Charmley
Review Date: 01 May 2001
John Charmley is, of course, no stranger to controversy.... How tempting it would be to begin a review of his latest book in this vein. Indeed, one suspects that Professor Charmley must be only too aware that his own reputation as a trenchant Conservative (with a very capital C) controversialist all too often overshadows the substance of his arguments.