Balfour and Foreign Policy: The International Thought of a Conservative Statesman

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Cambridge University Press, May 9, 2002 - Biography & Autobiography - 336 pages
Arthur James Balfour was British prime minister (1902-5) and foreign secretary (1916-19), a conservative and an intellectual. This is the first analysis of his thinking on a full range of international issues, such a British imperialism, Great Power relations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, central Asia and the Far East, the First World War, the Russian revolution, Zionism, the League of Nations and, above all, the Anglo-American relationship. Balfour emerges with a distinctively conservative approach to foreign affairs which demonstrated a continuity of belief from his philosophical writings to his political practice.

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Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
BIOGRAPHICAL SURVEY
11
RACE PROGRESS PATRIOTISM
20
IMPERIALISM
42
GREATER BRITAIN
69
THE FRANCORUSSIAN CHALLENGE
98
GERMANY AND THE WAR
129
ANGLOAMERICA
173
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
217
THE FAR EAST
238
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
259
CONCLUSION
285
Bibliography
300
Index
317
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319
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THE BALFOUR DECLARATION
198

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