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The Foreign Office and the defence of empire, 1919–1939
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Neilson, Keith |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Description | At the end of the First World War, four European empires – the Austro–Hungarian, the German, the Ottoman and the Russian – collapsed. At the same time, Japan and the United States emerged as major players on the world stage. To complicate matters further, ideologies hostile to Western democracy – successively Bolshevism, Fascism and Naziism – sprang up, each asserting that it held the keys to the future. Equally important, the verities of pre-war international relations were under siege. Alliances, secret (or 'old') diplomacy and arms races were held to be responsible for the outbreak of hostilities in 1914. Finally, the principle of national self-determination was held to be an essential element of $peace.^{1}$ There was even an attack on the concept of empire itself, although most in the British establishment believed that the time for imperial retreat could be safely put off into the indefinite $future.^{2}$ British Imperial Defence would have to be formulated in an environment completely different from that of $1914.^{3}$ Book Name: Imperial Defence |
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| Ending Page | 49 |
| Page Count | 20 |
| Starting Page | 30 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780203002438-3 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2007-11-21 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Imperial Defence History Defence Imperial Pre War Empire Ideologies Hostile |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
