The tradition of appeasement in British foreign policy 1865–1939
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IF the policy of “Appeasement” is inextricably associated in the historical consciousness with the efforts of Neville Chamberlain's government to preserve peace with the dictators in the 1930s, its origins have been recognized by numerous writers as going back many years before the immediate crises concerning the Sudetenland, Prague and the Polish Corridor. Some have traced its roots to the failure to prevent Japanese aggression in 1931 or Italy's attack upon Abyssinia in 1935; others, with more sense of the positive side of “Appeasement", have focused upon the attitude of the British government and public towards Germany during and after the Versailles settlement; while Mr Gilbert, going a little further back in time, has argued that “appeasement was born” at the moment of the British declaration of war in 1914. Few, if any, commentators have suggested that one should seek the beginnings of “Appeasement” before that event, however.
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Appeasement as a policy, if not always in name, had long been practised by British diplomatists when confronting particular external problems before the latter half of the 1930s.
“Importantly, 'appeasement' as a policy, if not always in name, had long been practised by British diplomatists when confronting particular external problems before the latter half of the 1930s.”
From Introduction: Appeasement: Rethinking the Policy and the Policy-Makers (2008) · cites this paper as [8]
Since the latter third of the nineteenth century, appeasement had been a consistent, although not necessarily overweening, element of British foreign policy.
“In fact, an argument has been made that, since the latter third of the nineteenth century, 'appeasement' had been a consistent-although not necessarily an overweening-element of British foreign policy.”
From Introduction: Appeasement: Rethinking the Policy and the Policy-Makers (2008) · cites this paper as [8]
Appeasement was not so much a strategic axiom but rather a particular diplomatic arrow within a larger quiver of approaches that was occasionally drawn and used.
“Appeasement was not so much a strategic axiom but rather a particular diplomatic arrow within a larger quiver of approaches that was occasionally drawn and used.”
From Introduction: Appeasement: Rethinking the Policy and the Policy-Makers (2008) · cites this paper as [8]
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- Authors
- Kennedy, P. M.
- Affiliations
- University of East Anglia (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Kennedy, Paul M.
- Venue
- British Journal of International Studies
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1976-10
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 195-215
- ISSN
- 0305-8026 (ISSN-L)
- 2053-597X
- OpenAlex
- W1964512057
- Cited by
- 48
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 5 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 4.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- British Journal of International Studies (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › History and International Relations
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Relations and Foreign Policy
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
- Keywords
- appeasement, British foreign policy, Neville Chamberlain, interwar diplomacy, Anglo-German relations, Abyssinia
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