G Bruce Strang

Biographic Data

ID260298
NAMEG Bruce Strang
GIVEN NAMESG Bruce
FAMILY NAMEStrang
SIGNATURESTRANG G B
AFFILIATIONSBrandon University
ORCID0000-0003-1494-2421
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Arming Sheīkh Saīd

    G Bruce StrangARTICLEDiplomacy and Statecraft2024

  • Anti-Colonialism and the Crisis of Interwar Fascism by Michael Ortiz (review)

    G Bruce StrangARTICLEHistoire sociale2024

    Reviewed by: Anti-Colonialism and the Crisis of Interwar Fascism by Michael Ortiz G. Bruce Strang Ortiz, Michael – Anti-Colonialism and the Crisis of Interwar Fascism. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 249 p. Michael Ortiz's new monograph examines Indian anti-imperialists' views of five crises in international relations in the latter half of the 1930s. The book's structure is straightforward. Ortiz wrote five chapters, outlining the response of …

  • Mésentente Cordiale

    G Bruce StrangARTICLEDiplomacy and Statecraft2021

    British and Italian representatives signed a series of accords, commonly called the Easter Accords, on 16 April 1938. The various agreements aimed to settle several outstanding issues between the two governments and, on the surface, it appeared that both Powers had committed to observe the status quo in the Mediterranean. Two years later, however, fascist Italy and Britain were at war. This analysis argues that Italian foreign policy had three ov…

  • Sir Alexander Cadogan and the Steward-Hesse Affair

    G Bruce StrangARTICLEThe International History Review2020

    Neville Chamberlain’s practice of appeasement reached its peak during the aftermath of the Munich conference. In October and November, he tried through several channels to influence Adolf Hitler to follow up on the prospect of Anglo-German understanding that Chamberlain thought underpinned the Anglo-German declaration signed at Munich on 30 September 1938. As part of this process, an unofficial emissary, George Steward, Chamberlain’s Press Secret…

  • Robert Mallett. Mussolini in Ethiopia, 1919–1935

    G Bruce StrangARTICLEThe American Historical Review2017

    Robert Mallett has written widely on Fascist Italy’s naval planning and foreign policy in the 1930s and has extensive knowledge of Italian archives. Mussolini in Ethiopia, 1919–1935: The Origins of Fascist Italy’s African War covers Italy’s post–World War I politics up to its invasion of Ethiopia in October 1935. Early on, Mallett establishes that Mussolini had a restless nature, seeking military glory and expansion to fulfill Italy’s Roman imper…

  • Collision of Empires

    G Bruce StrangEDITORBOOKCollision of Empires2016

  • Alliance of the Colored Peoples

    G Bruce StrangARTICLECanadian Journal of African…2015

  • The Worst of all Worlds

    G Bruce StrangARTICLEDiplomacy and Statecraft2008Cited by: 2

    Italy's invasion of Abyssinia in 1935 caused a crisis for the League of Nations. League members imposed limited sanctions against Italy and debated at length the imposition of an embargo on oil shipments to Italy, which came to stand as a symbol of the League's determination to punish the Italian aggressor. The British government conducted a detailed investigation to determine whether or not an oil sanction could compel Italy to abandon its invas…

  • The Spirit of Ulysses? Ideology and British Appeasement in the 1930s

    G Bruce StrangARTICLEDiplomacy and Statecraft2008Cited by: 4

    The British government's appeasement of fascism in the 1930s derived not only from economic, political, and strategic constraints, but also from the personal ideologies of the policy makers. Widespread guilt about the terms of the Versailles Treaty and tensions with France created sympathy for German revisionism, but the Cabinet properly recognized that Nazi Germany represented the gravest threat to peace in the 1930s. Fear of war and the recogni…

  • John Bull in Search of a Suitable Russia

    Open AccessG Bruce StrangARTICLEJournal of History2006

    After the Nazi occupation of Prague in March 1939, the British government sought Soviet support for the Peace Front — a deterrent to further Nazi aggression based on guaranteeing the independence of Poland and Rumania. These efforts failed, as Stalin, suspicious of past Western appeasement, refused to pledge Soviet support for these guarantees unless Britain and France concluded a military alliance with the Soviets. Initially, the British Cabinet…

  • On the Fiery March

    G Bruce StrangBOOKOn the Fiery March2003

    By the 1930s fascist dictator Benito Mussolini reached the conclusion that Italy faced a clear choice: expand its power at the expense of the British and French Empires or face stagnation and decline. He believed that the regimes in the democratic West would not be able to contain their inherent hostility toward fascist dynamism, while their demographic and political weaknesses provided the opportunity for the younger, demographically virile fasc…

  • Imperial Dreams

    Open AccessG Bruce StrangARTICLEThe Historical Journal2001Cited by: 1

    The infamous January 1936 accords between Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and French foreign minister Pierre Laval have been the subject of vigorous debate. Did Laval promise Mussolini a ‘free hand’ in Ethiopia, giving tacit French approval for an Italian invasion? The two men kept no formal record of their final meeting, leaving contemporary critics and historians to speculate about their bargaining. Italian foreign ministry documents reveal t…

  • War and peace

    G Bruce StrangARTICLEDiplomacy and Statecraft1999References: 7

    (1999). War and peace: Mussolini's road to Munich. Diplomacy & Statecraft: Vol. 10, The Munich Crisis, 1938 Prelude to World War II, pp. 160-190