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The missing political dimension of military exercises
No full textMilitary exercises are rarely straightforward in either intention or outcome. Official policy and governance about exercises have not kept up with the complexity of the current national and international contexts. In addition to collective training, exercises are now used for a wide variety of purposes, such as fostering alliance cohesion and defence diplomacy. In this article, Beatrice Heuser and Harold Simpson argue that the diverse effects and outcomes of exercises merit further investigation, and future guidance for British practitioners will reflect this
Italy and the Nuclear Choices of the Atlantic Alliance, 1955-1963
No full textThe article discusses the early impact of the nuclear revolution in military strategy on Italian foreign polic
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Haunted by History: Myths in International Relations
No full textA series of studies on interpretations of history and their use in political debates.
Includes:
Beatrice Heuser & Cyril Buffet: ‘Michel and Marianne’
Beatrice Heuser & Cyril Buffet: ‘Of Myths and Men’,
Beatrice Heuser & Cyril Buffet: ‘Historical Myths and the Denial of Change’,
Beatrice Heuser: ‘Dunkirk, Dien Bien Phu, and Suez, or why France doesn't trust allies and has learned to love the bomb’
Haunted by History: Myths in International Realtions
No full textA series of studies on interpretations of history and their use in political debates.
Includes:
Beatrice Heuser & Cyril Buffet: ‘Michel and Marianne’
Beatrice Heuser & Cyril Buffet: ‘Of Myths and Men’,
Beatrice Heuser & Cyril Buffet: ‘Historical Myths and the Denial of Change’,
Beatrice Heuser: ‘Dunkirk, Dien Bien Phu, and Suez, or why France doesn't trust allies and has learned to love the bomb’
Haunted by History: Myths in International Realtions
No full textA series of studies on interpretations of history and their use in political debates.
Includes:
Beatrice Heuser & Cyril Buffet: ‘Michel and Marianne’
Beatrice Heuser & Cyril Buffet: ‘Of Myths and Men’,
Beatrice Heuser & Cyril Buffet: ‘Historical Myths and the Denial of Change’,
Beatrice Heuser: ‘Dunkirk, Dien Bien Phu, and Suez, or why France doesn't trust allies and has learned to love the bomb’
Western intelligence, the Soviet threat and NSC-68: a reply to Beatrice Heuser
No full textIn her article on the early history of the Cold War, Beatrice Heuser throws out at a challenge to those of us who have, over the past few years, cast doubt upon the idea that the USSR represented a serious military threat to the West after the Second World War. Basing her argument upon ‘American intelligence estimates’ as well as other sources, she attempts to show that Western policy-makers, hither to much criticized by many academic analysts for having exaggerated Soviet capabilities and over-dramatizing its intentions, had good reason to be fearful of the Soviet Union. ‘American and British governments’, according to Dr Heuser, ‘had information which led them to fear Soviet aggression in Europe and elsewhere’ after 1948. In the light of this information—not to mention the North Korean attack upon the South—rearmament, she argues, ‘may well have been an appropriate response to the Soviet threat’. It certainly ‘worried Stalin’ and possibly prevented Soviet aggression in Europe. It was, in short, a reasonable response to a real problem and probably contributed (although by how much can never be known) to the successful containment of the USSR. NSC-68 may not have been such a flawed document after all.</jats:p
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Britain and the origins and future of the European defence and security mechanism
Get PDFThroughout the second half of the twentieth century, the UK played a key role in the creation and development of a flexible and sustainable mechanism for European defence and security. Beatrice Heuser reviews the history of this engagement, and argues that changes in the UK’s institutional relationship with European partners should not be allowed to undermine the overarching principles of defence cooperation.
Lessons learnt from history can be wrong or irrelevant, but one lesson that to a student of international relations seems both right and relevant appears to have been forgotten: that Britain’s security depends on a peaceful Europe; that Europe’s stability is enhanced by a firm British commitment to the defence of democratic states in Europe; and that the fine skills of British officials have been essential in overcoming many a crisis not only in transatlantic relations, but also in intra-European relations. Yet, today, Europe’s carefully crafted defence mechanism, engineered above all by Britain, is crumbling.
This mechanism and the rules to guide its employment took decades to construct, and Britain was one of the leading powers in initiating, amending and then fine-tuning it. In key periods, this was achieved along with France; in others mainly alongside the US and West Germany. It was a mechanism that allowed for dynamism, elasticity and perpetual adjustments to ever-new events, which had to be accommodated without undermining the foundations of the entire structure.
The British leaders and officials involved drew on centuries of failed experiments with alternative structures, all of which were eventually unable to keep the British Isles out of the two world wars, resulting in unprecedented numbers of casualties, damage and suffering. The mechanism, designed as much as cobbled together in ad hoc salvage operations by British politicians and defence planners, was at once robust and flexible, allowing it to weather a series of crises. But it relied and still relies crucially on Britain as the central lynchpin keeping the construct together. The British withdrawal from the EU risks removing this central lynchpin, upon which the entire construct may come apart
Heuser, Beatrice (2019). Brexit in History: Sovereignty or a European Union?
No full textObra ressenyada: Beatrice HEUSER, Brexit in History: Sovereignty or a European Union? Hurst & Company, 2019
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Securing Peace in Europe, 1945-62: Thoughts for the Post-Cold War Era
No full textArticles include:
Beatrice Heuser: ‘Stalin as Hitler's Successor: Western Interpretations of the Soviet threat', pp. 17-4
Colloque "Les batailles et leurs mythes", 5 juin 2018, Paris
No full textColloque "Les Batailles et leurs mythes" Mardi 5 juin 2018 Amphithéâtre Chasles, Sorbonne Organisé par Isabelle Davion et Beatrice Heuser PROGRAMME CONSUTABLE IC
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