Chapter 3 Safety First: The Politics of Defence and the Realities behind Diplomacy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vi
4. Abbreviations vii
5. Acknowledgements x
6. Foreword xiii
7. Introduction 1
8. Chapter 1 The Public Sphere in Edwardian London 11
9. Chapter 2 The Policy of Drift? Balance of Power, Concert of Europe, or Political Power Blocs? 72
10. Chapter 3 Safety First: The Politics of Defence and the Realities behind Diplomacy 129
11. Chapter 4 Imperial Defence or Continental Commitment? 182
12. Chapter 5 Foreign Policy under Lansdowne and Balfour 216
13. Chapter 6 The Myth of Continuity: Foreign Policy under Edward Grey 273
14. Chapter 7 The Committee of Four: The German Peril Revisited 306
15. Chapter 8 At the Cost of Stability: The Anglo-Russian Convention and its European Implications 344
16. Chapter 9 ‘More Russian than the Russians’? British Balkan Diplomacy and the Annexation of Bosnia 1908/9 401
17. Conclusion and Perspectives: The Triad of British Foreign Politics 462
18. Bibliography 483
19. Index 521