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British foreign policy
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Cold War
diplomatic representation
embassies
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George F. Kennan
Germany
International relations
NATO
Second World War
Soviet Union
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- ISBN 9781526180964
- Weight: 527g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 29 Apr 2025
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Over four decades as a diplomat, Sir Frank Roberts dealt with headline issues, including policy towards Germany during the years of appeasement, the Second World War alliance with the Soviet Union, the origins of the Cold War, NATO affairs, the Berlin and Cuban Missile Crises, European integration, and relations with the Federal Republic of Germany. Collaborating with the renowned American diplomat, George F. Kennan (the cryptonymous author ‘X’ of an influential 1947 article), his despatches from Moscow in 1946 shaped Britain’s Cold War strategy. In 1954 he played an integral part in the diplomacy behind the rearmament of the Federal Republic and her incorporation into NATO, helping to build an enduring structure of transatlantic security. Roberts’ career sheds new light on British foreign policy across an era in which Britain slipped from global pre-eminence to regional power status.
Jonathan Colman is Senior Lecturer in International History at the University of Lancashire. A former By-Fellow at the Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, he has published widely on British and American foreign policies and diplomatic representation.
