British Policy in the Far East 1933–1936: Treasury and Foreign Office

1992 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 545-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gill Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Far East ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Currency Reform ◽  
British Policy ◽  
Foreign Office ◽  
Technical Considerations

The nature of British interests in the Far East in the 1930s meant that both the Treasury and the Board of Trade were necessarily closely involved with the making of foreign policy. While Foreign Office officials resented this intrusion into their domain, they were themselves disdainful of so-called ‘technical’ considerations connected with tariffs or currency reform, and were willing to leave them to the specialists. Under the dynamic impetus of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Neville Chamberlain, and the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, Sir Warren Fisher, the Treasury, encouraged by the apparent abnegation of the Foreign Office, made a bold and aggressive foray between 1933 and 1936 into realms of foreign policy-making hitherto regarded as the exclusive sphere of the professional diplomat.

Retreat From China: British Policy in the Far East 1937-1941.

1968 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 588
Author(s):  
B. L. Evans ◽  
Nicholas R. Clifford
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
The Far East ◽  
British Policy

British Policy in the Far East

1940 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 477
Author(s):  
Gerald Samson
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
The Far East ◽  
British Policy

A Matter of Faith: North America's Religion and South America's Independence

1975 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 470-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Gribbin
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Far East ◽  
Mass Behavior ◽  
The Far East ◽  
American Diplomacy ◽  
National Images

For the last several decades, scholars concerned with America's foreign relations have paid increasing attention to public opinion, to national images, to the ties between domestic politics and international events. And because contemporary American diplomacy seems entangled in webs of mass behavior, the same wisdom has been applied to earlier times to investigate the way foreign policy has sometimes been an extension of passions and forces from the country's street corners, kitchen tables, and church pews. In this regard, great attention has lately been paid to American stereotypes of the Orient, as sages attempt to find in age-old popular attitudes the reasons for enduring problems of statecraft. Inasmuch as public interest shifts from one area of crisis to the next with each morning's headlines, it should be useful to examine, for areas other than the Far East, how the methods and goals of American diplomacy have been influenced or shaped, sometimes thwarted or transformed, by a kind of people's diplomacy growing out of the limited knowledge and unrestrained emotions of the man in the street.

scholarly journals Australia’s engagement with East Asia: Evolution of a re-orientation in foreign policy

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (X1) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Dinh Thi Trinh
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Far East ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
World War ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
The Far East ◽  
New Perspective

The outbreak and warfare activities of World War II unintendedly forced Australia to re-orient their security and defense thinking. Having realized that the British security environment and that of their own were far diverged from each other, Australia began to re-orient their priority in foreign policy from European issues to East Asian ones. For the Bristish, East Asia is the Far East but in Australia’s new perspective it is the Near North; thus, the security matters in East Asia are closely linked with Australian national interests. Australian independent diplomacy has been shaped during the course following their re-orienting foreign and security thinking to East Asia. This paper examines the re-orienting of Australia’s strategic thinking from Europecentered problems to Asia-centered ones as well as changing orientation towards ‘Asia’ and ‘Asian engagement’. It also argues that since it had formed, Australia’s Asia-oriented foreign policy, despite minor constraints, has been continuously developed until today.

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