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Britain and Western European union

Britain and the West New Guinea dispute, 1949-1962

This book considers British policy during the dispute over "West Papua" between Indonesia and the Netherlands following the collapse of the Suharto regime. Although there are books and theses on American, Australian and Dutch policies, those of the British have remained unexplored.The work looks at the factors that conditioned Britain's response to the unrest from accommodating its allies to navigating Cold War.

Decision making in Great Britain during the Suez crisis : small groups and a persistent leader

This work provides an innovative approach to the question of why the Suez Crisis erupted. Bertjan Verbeek applies a foreign policy analysis framework to British decision making during the crisis, providing a full foreign policy analysis of this important event. Moreover, the book offers a new interpretation of British decision-making during the crisis. Many existing studies of Suez emphasize the role of the Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, and often focus on the matter of collusion with Israel. This study demonstrates that small group dynamics in the institutional context of cabinet decision-making in the British political system are much more important. The study offers the possibility of determining more precisely the interrelationship between systemic constraints on states' behaviour and the actual behaviour of states under such constraints.