This book marries the disciplines of International Relations and Diplomatic History to provide a major new study of the GATT system in the 1960s. Using recently declassified British and American government documents, this book identifies the key role British diplomats played at the Kennedy Round. Through the close ties that characterise the Anglo-American relationship, the British influenced American policy and strategy in the negotiations. The evidence of this study challenges realist theories of middle power influence in the international political economy by demonstrating the determining role of state-level factors such as diplomatic skill and policy expertise.

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University of Leicester, UK

Donna Lee

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DONNA LEE is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Leicester. She previously taught at Manchester Metropolitan University where she undertook her doctoral research. She has recently had articles published in the Review of International Studies, and the Review of International Political Economy.

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Book Title: Middle Powers & Commercial Diplomacy
Book Subtitle: British Influence at the Kennedy Trade Round
Authors: Donna Lee
Series Title: Studies in Diplomacy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333984352
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1999
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-73984-6Published: 12 August 1999
eBook ISBN: 978-0-333-98435-2Published: 12 August 1999
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 161
Topics: International Relations, Diplomacy, International Economics, International Political Economy

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