TY - BOOK AU - Rose,Andreas AU - Clark,Christopher TI - Between Empire and Continent: British Foreign Policy before the First World War T2 - Studies in British and Imperial History SN - 9781785335785 U1 - 940.3/2241 23/eng/20231120 PY - 2017///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - Eastern question (Balkan) KW - HISTORY / Military / World War I KW - bisacsh KW - alliances KW - britain KW - british foreign policy KW - british security policy KW - center of global relations KW - conflicts KW - edwardian london KW - groundbreaking study KW - heated public sphere of london KW - history KW - lansdowne and balfour KW - political maneuvering KW - study of british foreign policy KW - the committee of four KW - turn of the 20th century KW - world war i N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Abbreviations --; Acknowledgements --; Foreword --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 The Public Sphere in Edwardian London --; Chapter 2 The Policy of Drift? Balance of Power, Concert of Europe, or Political Power Blocs? --; Chapter 3 Safety First: The Politics of Defence and the Realities behind Diplomacy --; Chapter 4 Imperial Defence or Continental Commitment? --; Chapter 5 Foreign Policy under Lansdowne and Balfour --; Chapter 6 The Myth of Continuity: Foreign Policy under Edward Grey --; Chapter 7 The Committee of Four: The German Peril Revisited --; Chapter 8 At the Cost of Stability: The Anglo-Russian Convention and its European Implications --; Chapter 9 ‘More Russian than the Russians’? British Balkan Diplomacy and the Annexation of Bosnia 1908/9 --; Conclusion and Perspectives: The Triad of British Foreign Politics --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - Prior to World War I, Britain was at the center of global relations, utilizing tactics of diplomacy as it broke through the old alliances of European states. Historians have regularly interpreted these efforts as a reaction to the aggressive foreign policy of the German Empire. However, as Between Empire and Continent demonstrates, British foreign policy was in fact driven by a nexus of intra-British, continental and imperial motivations. Recreating the often heated public sphere of London at the turn of the twentieth century, this groundbreaking study carefully tracks the alliances, conflicts, and political maneuvering from which British foreign and security policy were born UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785335792?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785335792 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785335792/original ER -