Anglo-american relations and the Franco question, 1945-1955
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780198228714
- ISBN10 0198228716
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 291
- Jahr der Ausgabe 1999
- Bindung Stoffeinband
Abschnitte
Zeitgenössische Geschichte SpaniensAnglo-american relations and the Franco question, 1945-1955
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
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 epitomizes 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 problems faced today by individual governments and by the United Nations in dealing with questions of intervention or nonintervention in distasteful regimes.