本书充分利用日本及中国大陆、台湾所藏档案史料，体察清末民初的时代语境，以华盛顿会议等影响深远的历史事件为案例，梳理、剖析当时外交活动的表象、特点及其本质。对晚清至民国北京政府时期外交制度的形成、外交政策的制定、外交机构的兴衰、外交人才的培养，以及重要事件中中央政府、外交官僚、社会舆论所起的作用等问题进行了详尽分析。全书力求摆脱以往民初外交史研究中重评价、轻实证的痼疾，还原以往研究中未能注意到的细节和时代特点，并追索民初外交与其前后时代外交的关系。

In this leading text, Walter LaFeber offers a comprehensive history of American foreign relations from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. His narrative account features several major themes: the connections between U.S. foreign policy and domestic politics; the impact of American economic development on foreign policy interests; popular culture, particularly film, as a filter for public opinion on American commitments abroad; the roles of public opinion, leadership, and bureaucracy in the formation of policy. In the Second Edition, LaFeber has revised nearly every chapter in the book. In the early chapters, there is more attention to the origins of foreign policy institutions and practices, including precedents for the executive agreement, and new discussions of U.S. relations with Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The more recent chapters feature fresh insights of Potsdam, the origins of the Korean War, and the Cuban Missile Crisis--all based on new evidence drawn from Soviet archives. The new edition amply covers the momentous events that brought the Cold War to an end and thrust the United States into the uncetain position of the world's only superpower.

《西洋朝贡典录校注东西洋考》记录了明代与我国朝贡贸易关系的海外23个国家的情况，其中有些资料不见于他书，也可以校订《瀛涯》、《星搓》诸书，对研究明代的中外关系和航海史很有用处。样注本用最早的借月山房本校注整理。《东西洋考》记述了明中叶后期福建漳州开放海禁后，闽南地区对外贸易和海外交通迅速发展，反映了与漳州有关的海外23个国家的情况，其中有关西欧国家与中国的接触和东西二洋的针路的记述，都是珍贵资料，书后附有详细的地名索引。

Fitztroy Maclean was one of the real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. There he specialised in hair-raising commando raids behind enemy lines, including the daring and outrageous kidnapping of the German Consul in Axis-controlled Iraq. Maclean's extraordinary adventures in the Western Desert and later fighting alongside Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia are blistering reading and show what it took to be a British hero who broke the mould...

Until 1970 it would have been premature to attempt a comprehensive and impartial account of British foreign policy from 1905 to 1916, during the secretaryship of Sir Edward Grey. Apart from the difficulty of passing judgement on matters that were still controversial, the confidential archives of the British government for the years after 1905 did not begin to become available until the 1950s. By 1970, however, scholars had thoroughly digested the contents of these voluminous records up to 1916, and a statement of their findings was even overdue. In this volume many of the British historians who have been in the forefront of the research report on their work. They establish the facts about a period which saw fundamental changes in Great Britain's position in the world, and offer assessments of the British government's contribution to such important developments as the evolution of the Anglo-French Entente, Anglo-German rivalry before 1914, the outbreak of the first World War and the origin of the League of Nations.

This book brings together the often separated histories of diplomacy, defence, economics and empire in a provocative reinterpretation of British 'decline'. It also offers a broader reflection on the nature of international power and the mechanisms of policymaking. For this Second Edition, David Reynolds has added a new chapters and extends his lively and incisive analysis to the beginning of the new millennium.

This is a survey of the foreign relations of the great powers. The author describes how statesmen conducted foreign policy, how they dealt with crisis situations, and how they succeeded or failed in resolving them. International relations are presented in a global perspective, introducing students to a number of global problems past and present. Designed for courses in European, world, or great power foreign policy, this book may also be a supplementary text for general courses in nineteenth-century European history.