Book reviews

• Published in: Diplomacy and statecraft 1998, Vol.9 (3), p.294-315
• Main Authors: Black, Jeremy, Neilson, Keith, Dutton, D.J., Bell, P.M.H., Thomas, Martin, Swain, Geoffrey, Pagedas, Constantine A., Oliver, Kendrick, Rodman, David, Berridge, G.R., Morgan, Patrick M., Towle, Philip
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0959-2296; 1557-301X
• DOI: 10.1080/09592299808406104

H. Duchhardt, Balance of Power und Pentarchie 1700-1785 (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1997). xvii + 448 pp. DM.148. Michael Hughes, Inside the Enigma. British Officials in Russia, 1900-1939 (London: The Hambledon Press, 1997). xi + 336 pp. £35. ISBN 1-85285-160-0. John W. Young, Britain and the World in the Twentieth Century (London: Arnold, 1997). xii + 250 pp. £13.99 pb ISBN 0-340-54013-3. T.G. Otte and Constantine A. Pagedas (eds.), Personalities, War and Diplomacy: Essays in International History. With a Preface by Roy Jenkins (London: Frank Cass, 1997). xii + 291 pp. £39.50. ISBN 0-7146-5818-3. Maurice Vaïsse, La Grandeur: Politique étrangère du général de Gaulle, 1958-1969 (Paris: Fayard, 1997). 726 pp. 198 French francs. ISBN 9-782213-600505 Patrick Finney (ed.) The Origins of the Second World War (London: Arnold, 1997). 461 pp. £45 hb; £15.99 pb. William J. Tompson, Khrushchev: A Political Life (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997). ix + 341 pp. £15.99 pb ISBN 0-333-69633-6. N. Piers Ludlow, Dealing with Britain: The Six and the First UK Application to the EEC (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). ix + 282 pp. £50 hb ISBN 0-521-59242-9; £16.95 pb ISBN 0-521-59536-3. Robert D. Schulzinger, A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997). xiii + 397 pp. £19.99 hb ISBN 0-19-507189-1. Kirsten E. Schulze, Israel's Covert Diplomacy in Lebanon (New York: St Martin's Press, 1998). xiv + 213 pp. $65. ISBN 0-312-17604-X. Peter Marshall, with a Foreword by J.E. Spence, Positive Diplomacy (London: Macmillan, 1997). xviii + 234 pp. £35 hb ISBN 0-333-69251-9. Robin Renwick, Unconventional Diplomacy in Southern Africa (London: Macmillan, 1997). vi + 163 pp. £29.50 hb ISBN 0-333-67823-0. David H. Dunn, The Politics of Threat: Minuteman Vulnerability in American National Security Policy ( Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997). xii + 289 pp. £45 hb ISBN 0-333-67816-8. Nancy Gallagher, Arms Control: New Approaches to Theory and Policy (London and Portland, CO: Frank Cass, 1998). 175 pp. £27.50 hb ISBN 0-7146-4813-2; £15 pb ISBN 0-7146-4363-7.