Contemporary History in Context: The Revival of British Foreign Policy

Sharp, P.

A wide-ranging, readable and controversial assessment of Thatcher's foreign policy throughout her years in office, 1979-90. Successive chapters cover her partnership with Lord Carrington, the Falklands War, her American policy, her fights with the EC over money and institutional development, her relationship with Gorbachev, and the failure of her German policy. In arguing that Thatcher's attempt to reconcile economic liberalism with political nationalism in a more assertive foreign policy prefigured the emerging statecraft of post-Cold War great power politics, Paul Sharp demonstrates why studying her successes and failures offers an invaluable guide for policy-makers around the world today.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1999-06-25

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780333688106

DOI: 10.1057/9780333983683

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 269