Glyn A. Stone draws upon a wealth of recent specialized studies which focus on key issues relating to Spain during the civil war and the early years of the Second World War. By including Portugal and beginning from 1931, the first general study of the significance of the Spanish area to the foreign policies and diplomatic relations of the Great Powers since the publication of Dante Puzzo's Spain and the Great Powers in 1962, provides a more comprehensive account than hitherto achieved.

The growing significance of international history and relations in recent years has been reflected in a growth of research and development of new courses. This collection of essays focus on three broad themes: the League of Nations and collective security, problems in British foreign policy, and European/International security in the interwar years. The book, in memory of Esmonde Robertson and George GrUn, distinguished historians of the London School of Economics, contains papers commissioned from some of the most formidable names in international history.

Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century is a collection of studies on the key episodes of the difficult and often discordant Anglo-French exchange over the past century. The authors critically re-evaluate: * the role of Spain in Anglo-French relations up to 1918
* the missed opportunity of the 1920s with the failure of France and Britain to find sufficient common ground and co-operation
* the short-lived Anglo-French alliance and the Second World War
* the degree of Anglo-French Imperial co-operation
* the Suez Crisis
* British and French policies on...