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British rearmament and the Treasury, 1932-1939
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The article was published on 1979-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 59 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Treasury.read more
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New Ways of War: Understanding Military Innovation
TL;DR: A major innovation is a change that forces one of the primary combat arms of a service to change its concepts of operation and its relation to other combat arms, and to abandon or downgrade traditional missions as discussed by the authors.
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Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy: Threat assessment, the state, and foreign policy: a neoclassical realist model
TL;DR: The authors developed a realist theory of threat assessment to fill the gap and illustrate it with reference to the British experience between the two world wars, arguing that prior to World War I Britain balanced against the rising power (or threat) of Wilhelmine Germany in the form of the Anglo-French Entente Cordiale, the Triple Entente, and the naval arms buildup.
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Both Guns and Butter, or Neither: Class Interests in the Political Economy of Rearmament
TL;DR: A state that is confronted with a grave external threat has three basic options of response, each of which involves certain trade-offs as mentioned in this paper, and the state should choose the policy, or combination of policies, that will provide an acceptable level of security at the lowest overall cost.
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Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918-1940
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a discursive framework for policing in the context of police, labour, and colonial violence in the British colonies of North Africa and South-West Africa.
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Wishful Thinking or Buying Time? The Logic of British Appeasement in the 1930s
Norrin M. Ripsman,Jack S. Levy +1 more
TL;DR: There are three distinct variations of appeasement: resolving grievances (to avoid war for the foreseeable future), diffusing secondary threats (to focus on a greater threat), and buying time (to rearm and/or secure allies against the current threat) as discussed by the authors.