British Foreign and Defence Policy in the Twentieth Century, Volume I 1890-1939

Antony Best is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics, UK. His most recent single-authored book is  British Intelligence and the Japanese Challenge in Asia, 1914-1941 (Palgrave 2002), and he is one of the co-authors of International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond , 3rd edition (2015).

Gaynor Johnson is Professor Emerita in International History at the University of Kent, UK. Her most recent publications relate to the history and operation of the British Foreign Office and the use of prosopography as a research tool for international historians.  She has also published widely on twentieth-century British foreign policy.  Her most recent book is Politician and Internationalist: Lord Robert Cecil (2013).