Anglo-American Relations and the Franco Question, 1945-1955

Zusatztext A very interesting and enlightening book about a much neglected topic ... Jill Edwards's book, which builds on her previous work on Britain and the Spanish Civil War, is very helpful in clarifying the Western considerations about the role of Spain in the early Cold War Klappentext This book examines how British and American governments grappled with the question of intervention or non-intervention in a pariah regime - Francoist Spain between 1945 and 1955. Jill Edwards examines the clash between the emerging dual system of the United Nations (internationalism), and the older system of balance of power, played out by the super powers as the Cold War. Zusammenfassung This book examines the formulation of British and American policy between 1945 and 1955 towards one of the most hated regimes of this century. The Franco question though apparently not of the first importance in the evolution of Cold War policy, nevertheless haunted British and American governments during this period. It posed a problem which epitomises the difficulty of dealing with pariah regimes. As such it highlights for historians the attempts of these two governments to straddle the contradictions inherent in the emerging dual system of the United Nations, or internationalism, on the one hand, and the older system of balance of power, played out by the super powers as the Cold War. Set as it is in the domestic and international context, it also exemplifies the problems faced today by individual governments and by the United Nations in dealing with questions of intervention or non-intervention in distasteful regimes.

Product details

• Authors: Jill Edwards, Jill (Associate Professor of Twentieth-Ce Edwards, Edwards Jill
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.1998
• EAN: 9780198228714
• ISBN: 978-0-19-822871-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, Spain, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Diplomacy, United States of America, USA, c 1950 to c 1959, History of the Americas, Central / national / federal government policies, C 1945 To C 1960, Central government policies, HISTORY / Europe / Spain