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Dilemmas of appeasement : British deterrence and defense, 1934-1937

Author: Gaines Post
Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1993.
Series: Cornell studies in security affairs.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This distinguished book offers fresh perspectives on British appeasement, grand strategy, and policymaking in a crucial and much-debated period of history. Innovative in both his interpretation and his method, Gaines Post, Jr., reexamines how British leaders planned foreign policy and imperial defense as they faced the increasing likelihood of war with the dictatorial regimes of Germany, Italy, and Japan. He  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Post, Gaines, 1937-
Dilemmas of appeasement.
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1993
(OCoLC)643919146
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Gaines Post
ISBN: 0801427487 9780801427480
OCLC Number: 26257359
Description: xiii, 363 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Title: Cornell studies in security affairs.
Responsibility: Gaines Post, Jr.

Abstract:

This distinguished book offers fresh perspectives on British appeasement, grand strategy, and policymaking in a crucial and much-debated period of history. Innovative in both his interpretation and his method, Gaines Post, Jr., reexamines how British leaders planned foreign policy and imperial defense as they faced the increasing likelihood of war with the dictatorial regimes of Germany, Italy, and Japan. He clarifies the ways in which the dynamics of the machinery of government affected the choice of policies, delimited the management of crises, and restricted the pace of rearmament. Post provides a novel and intricate synthesis of what we know about British foreign policy in the 1930s: rearmament, deterrence, decisionmaking, and the question of timing. Analyzing the Ethiopian and Rhineland crises as case studies, he shows how they defeated British efforts to develop a comprehensive strategy of conventional and extended deterrence. London's unsuccessful attempts to deter Hitler and Mussolini, he demonstrates, were frustrated by confusion in the decisionmaking machinery of government, by conflicting notions of how to buy time, by unpredictable international crises, and by the plans of Neville Chamberlain for correlating airpower, economic stability at home, and conciliation overseas. Challenging the generally accepted interpretation of British grand strategy in the 1930s, Dilemmas of Appeasement will be important reading for historians, especially of modern Britain and Europe, political scientists, and defense studies specialists.

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