Böcker av George Boyce

This book traces the interaction of war and diplomacy and analyses why the Falklands conflict of 1982 engaged the British and Argentine people in a deeply personal way. It also examines the interpretation of the war in Britain, revealing how the war - a successful one - was seen by its critics as an example of 'Thatcher's Britain'.

This analysis of the ideas and policy choices of British decolonization shows how the political tradition of experience over abstract theory meant that the Empire was regarded as being painlessly transformed rather than lost. It discusses decolonization in its wider 20th-century context.

Attempts to formulate a 'solution' have been governed by the British perception of what the problem is, and by the structures, as well as the ideas of British party politics and British political life: Ireland was never a laboratory in which dispassionate political experiments could be conducted.