Includes bibliographical references.

Includes index.

Machine derived contents note: PART I POLICY TOWARDS THE OTHER WESTERN -- POWERS -- I NEW PATTERNS IN WESTERN RELATIONSHIPS 17 -- Twilight of Western Unity 17 -- The Question of Partners 22 -- NA TO Dilemma 28 -- Present Tactics 32 -- 2 ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS 37 -- The Special Relationship 37 -- The Anti-Communist Factor 49 -- Rivalry and Partnership in the Third World 59 -- 3 BRITAIN AND WESTERN EUROPE 73 -- Decline of British Influence 73 -- The Integration Problem 81 -- Two Sides to Security 109 -- PART II POLICY TOWARDS THE THIRD WORLD 135 -- 4 GENERAL EVOLUTION OF POLICY 136 -- Winds of Change 136 -- The New Commonwealth 148 -- Ultra-Colonalism 162 -- 5 THE MIDDLE EAST 172 -- Collapse of the British Caliphate 172 -- The Arabian Peninsula 179 -- Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Israel 185 -- Pact-Making, Past and Present 192 -- 6 AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA 197 -- The Last British Sphere of Influence? 197 -- Anglo-Afrikaner Co-operation and Conflict 202 -- Dilemma in Central Africa 207 -- East Africa 213 -- West Africa: The House that Jack Built 220 -- 7 SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA 229 -- Half In, Half Out 229 -- "Our Frontiers are on the Himalayas" 234 -- Pakistan 239 -- Transition in Malaysia and Singapore 242 -- PART III POLICY TOWARDS THE COMMUNIST -- POWERS 253 -- 8 THE SOVIET UNION AND THE OTHER -- EUROPEAN COMMUNIST STATES 257 -- General Evolution of Policy towards the Soviet -- Union 257 -- Variations on the Same Theme in Eastern Europe 266 -- The Strategic Factor 272 -- The Costs of Confrontation 278 -- The Domestic Political Climate 286 -- 9 CHINA AND THE OTHER ASIAN COMMUNIST -- STATES 294 -- China in British World Policy 294 -- The Impact of Maoism 301 -- A Diplomacy of Limited Objectives 306 -- The Hong Kong Anomaly 312 -- The Vietnam-Laos Crises 315 -- Conclusion 327 -- Index 333.