Best, Antony

Article

Best, Antony (2023). To contemplate the soul of the oldest civilization in the world: Britain and the Chinese art exhibition of 1935-36. International History Review, 45(2), 292 - 306. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2022.2120049

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Best, Antony (2013). The Leith-Ross mission and British policy towards East Asia, 1934-37. International History Review, 35(4), 681-701. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2013.813570

Best, Antony (2012). 'We are virtually at war with Russia': Britain and the Cold War in East Asia, 1923-40. Cold War History, 12(2), 205-225. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2011.569436

Best, Antony (2011). Book review: Manchurian railways and the opening of China: an international history - edited by Bruce A. Elleman and Stephen Kotkin. History, 96(322), 219-220. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-229X.2011.00515_14.x

Best, Antony (2006). Race, monarchy and the Anglo-Japanese alliance, 1902-1922. Social Science Japan Journal, 9(2), 171-186. https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyl027

Best, Antony (2006). The 'ghost' of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance: an examination into historical mythmaking. Historical Journal, 49(3), 811-831. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X06005528

Best, Antony (2006). Diagnosis and autopsy: Britain and the outbreak of the Pacific war. NIDS Military History Studies Annual, 9, 118-137.

Best, Antony (2006). The 'cultural turn' and the international history of East Asia: a response to David Reynolds. Cultural and Social History, 3(4), 482-489. https://doi.org/10.1191/1478003806cs073oa

Best, Antony (2005). Our respective empires should stand together: the royal dimension in Anglo-Japanese relations, 1919-1941. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 16(2), 259-279. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592290590948333

Best, Antony (2002). Economic appeasement or economic nationalism? A political perspective on the British Empire, Japan and the rise of intra-Asian trade, 1933-37. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 30(2), 77-101.

Best, Antony (2002). Intelligence, diplomacy and the Japanese threat to British interests, 1914-41. Intelligence and National Security, 17(1), 87-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684520412331306420

Best, Antony (2001). Keizai teki yuwa seisaku ka, Keizai teki nashonarizumu ka - 1933-38 nen ni okeru igirisu teikoku, nihon, sosite: ajia kan boeki no kouryu ni tuite no seiji si teki kaishaku [Economic appeasement or economic nationalism? A political perspective on the British Empire, Japan and the rise of intra-Asian trade, 1933-38]. Zinbun Gakuho, 85, 63-87.

Best, Antony (1997). "This is probably over-valued military power": British intelligence and Whitehall's perception of Japan. Intelligence and National Security, 12(3), 67-94. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684529708432431

Best, Antony (1996). Constructing an image: British intelligence and Whitehall's perception of Japan. Intelligence and National Security, 11(3), 403-423. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684529608432369

Best, Antony (1994). 'Straws in the wind': Britain and the February 1941 war-scare in East Asia. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 5(3), 642-665. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592299408405949

Book

Best, Antony (2020). British engagement with Japan, 1854 -1922: the origins and course of an unlikely alliance. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351105163

Kornicki, Peter, Best, Antony, Cortazzi, Hugh (Eds.) (2019). British royal and Japanese imperial relations, 1868-2018: 150 years of association, engagement and celebration. Renaissance Books.

Best, Antony, Cortazzi, Hugh (Eds.) (2018). British foreign secretaries and Japan, 1850-1990: aspects of the evolution of British foreign policy. Renaissance Books with the Japan Society.

Best, Antony (Ed.) (2016). Britain's retreat from Empire in East Asia, 1905-1980. Routledge.

Best, Antony (2015). Daiei Teikoku no Shin-Nichi Ha: Kaisen ha Naze Sakerare Nakattaka = British Japanophiles: why could Britain and Japan not avoid war? [translated from the original English-language essays by Dr Tomoki Takeda]. Chuo Koron Shuppansha.

Frattolillo, Oliviero, Best, Antony (Eds.) (2015). Japan and the Great War. Palgrave Macmillan.

Best, Antony, Hanhimäki, Jussi M., Maiolo, Joseph A., Schulze, Kirsten E. (2014). International history of the twentieth century and beyond. Routledge.

Fisher, John, Best, Antony (Eds.) (2011). On the fringes of diplomacy: influences on British foreign policy, 1800-1945. Ashgate Dartmouth.

Best, Antony (Ed.) (2010). Imperial Japan and the world, 1931-1945. Routledge.

Best, Antony (Ed.) (2009). The international history of East Asia, 1900–1968 - trade, ideology and the quest for order. Routledge.

Best, Antony, Hanhimäki, Jussi M., Maiolo, Joseph A., Schulze, Kirsten E. (2008). International history of the twentieth century and beyond. Routledge.

Best, Antony, Hanhimäki, Jussi M., Maiolo, Joseph A., Schulze, Kirsten E. (2004). International history of the twentieth century. Routledge.

Best, Antony (2002). British intelligence and the Japanese challenge in Asia, 1914-1941. Palgrave Macmillan.

Best, Antony (1995). Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbour avoiding war in East Asia, 1936-1941. Routledge.

Chapter

Best, Antony (2019). A royal alliance: court diplomacy and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1902-41. In Kornicki, P., Best, A. & Cortazzi, H. (Eds.), British royal and Japanese imperial relations, 1868-2018: 150 years of association, engagement and celebration . Renaissance Books.

Best, Antony (2018). British relations with Japan, 1858-2017: an overview. In Best, A. & Cortazzi, H. (Eds.), British foreign secretaries and Japan, 1850-1990: aspects of the evolution of British foreign policy (pp. 1-21). Renaissance Books with the Japan Society.

Best, Antony (2018). Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Japan: the revival of political relations, 1961-74. In Best, A. & Cortazzi, H. (Eds.), British foreign secretaries and Japan, 1850-1990: aspects of the evolution of British foreign policy (pp. 259-264). Renaissance Books with the Japan Society.

Best, Antony (2018). Sir Samuel Hoare and Japan: an orthodox conservative in the 1930s. In Best, A. & Cortazzi, H. (Eds.), British foreign secretaries and Japan, 1850-1990: aspects of the evolution of British foreign policy (pp. 179-183). Renaissance Books with the Japan Society.

Best, Antony (2016). ‘The Jackal’s Share’ Whitehall, the City of London and British policy towards the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–9. In Fisher, J., Pedaliu, E. G. H. & Smith, R. (Eds.), The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century (pp. 211-231). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46581-8_9

Best, Antony (2016). Lord Lytton (1876–1947) and Anglo-Japanese Relations in the 1930s. In Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits: Volume X (pp. 238-246). Taylor and Francis.

Best, Antony (2015). Lord Halifax (1881-1959) and Japan, 1938-1941. In Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits (pp. 609-619). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781898823278.055

Best, Antony (2014). The British Empire's image of East Asia, 1900-41: politics, ideology, and international order. In Murfett, M. (Ed.), Shaping British Foreign and Defence Policy in the Twentieth Century: A Tough Ask in Turbulent Times (pp. 21-40). Palgrave Macmillan.

Best, Antony (2013). A cardinal point of our world strategy: the Foreign Office and the normalization of relations with Japan, 1952-63. In Young, J. W., Pedaliu, E. G. H. & Kandiah, M. D. (Eds.), Britain in Global Politics: From Churchill to Blair (Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World) (pp. 100-118). Palgrave Macmillan.

Best, Antony (2013). Japan and the Cold War. In Immerman, R. H. & Goedde, P. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War (pp. 286-302). Oxford University Press.

Best, Antony (2013). Eikoku to Nihon pan-Ajia shugi e no chōsen, 1895-1956 [Britain, Japan and the Challenge of Pan-Asianism, 1895-1956]. In Matsūra, M. (Ed.), Ajia Shugi Wa Nani O Kataru Noka : Kioku Kenryoku Kachi (pp. 240-254). Minerubashobō.

Best, Antony (2013). G. E. Morrison (1862-1920) and Japan. In Cortazzi, H. (Ed.), Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits (pp. 469-480). Global Oriental.

Best, Antony (2013). Major-General F.S.G. Piggott (1883-1966). In Cortazzi, H. (Ed.), Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits (pp. 102-116). Global Oriental.

Fisher, John, Best, Antony (2011). Introduction: on the fringes of diplomacy: influences on British foreign policy, 1800-1945. In Fisher, J. & Best, A. (Eds.), On the Fringes of Diplomacy: Influences on British Foreign Policy, 1800-1945 (pp. 1-16). Ashgate Dartmouth.

Best, Antony (2011). The double agent’s tale: Vincent Kraft and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1915-18. In Fisher, J. & Best, A. (Eds.), On the Fringes of Diplomacy: Influences on British Foreign Policy, 1800-1945 (pp. 111-126). Ashgate Dartmouth.

Best, Antony (2010). General introduction. In Best, A. (Ed.), Imperial Japan and the World, 1931-1945 . Routledge.

Best, Antony (2010). The Shanghai Temper': J.O.P. Bland (1863-1945) and Japan. In Cortazzi, H. (Ed.), Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits (pp. 311 - 322). Global Oriental. https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9781906876265.i-666.168

Best, Antony (2010). The Anglo-Japanese alliance, the “Open Door” and international politics in Asia, 1902-23. In Best, A. (Ed.), The International History of East Asia, 1900–1968: Trade, Ideology and the Quest for Order (pp. 21-34). Routledge.

Best, Antony (2010). Introduction: the international history of East Asia, 1900–1968: trade, ideology and the quest for order. In Best, A. (Ed.), The International History of East Asia, 1900–1968: Trade, Ideology and the Quest for Order (pp. 1-8). Routledge.

Best, Antony (2010). Rt. Hon. Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937), Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) and Japan, 1924-40. In Cortazzi, H. (Ed.), Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits (pp. 69-80). Global Oriental. https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9781906876265.i-666.46

Best, Antony (2008). The role of diplomatic practice and court protocol in Anglo-Japanese relations, 1867-1900. In Mosslang, M. & Riotte, T. (Eds.), The Diplomats’ World: the Cultural History of Diplomacy, 1815-1914 (pp. 231-253). Oxford University Press/German Historical Institute.

Best, Antony (2007). Senkanki higashi ajia ni okeru kokusai renmei: kokusai kyocho shugi, chiki shugi, nashonarizimu -[Internationalism, regionalism and nationalism in East Asia in the inter-war period]. In Ogata, S. & Hanzawa, T. (Eds.), Guroubalu Govanansu No Rekishiteki Henyo; Kokuren to Kokusai Seijishi [Global Governance in Historical Perspectives; the United (pp. 25-48). Minerva Publishing.

Best, Antony (2007). The birth of the league and the death of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, 1918-1922. In Hanzawa, A. & Yamaguchi, J. (Eds.), Japan and the Un in International Politics – Historical Perspectives (pp. 10-32). Hokkaidō Daigaku.

Best, Antony (2007). “Monko kaiho” ka, “seiryokuken” ka: senkanki no igirisu, nihon to chugoku mondai [“Open door” or “sphere of influence”: Britain, Japan and South China in the inter-war period]. In Matsuura, M. (Ed.), Showa Ajia Shugi No Jitsu-Z? – Nihon No Nanshin to Taiwan – Nany? – Minami Shina [Showa and the Reality of Pan-Asianism – Japan’ (pp. 126-147). Minerva Publishing.

Best, Antony (2007). A royal alliance: court diplomacy and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1900–41. In Cortazzi, H. (Ed.), Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits (pp. 63-70). Global Oriental. https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9781905246335.1-448.52

Best, Antony (2005). British intellectuals and East Asia in the inter-war years. In Louis, W. M. R. (Ed.), Yet More Adventures With Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain (pp. 305-320). Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.

Best, Antony (2004). India, pan-Asianism and the Anglo-Japanese alliance. In O'Brien, P. P. (Ed.), The Anglo-Japanese Alliance (pp. 236-248). Routledge.

Best, Antony (2004). Ohitsu-gaiko kara mita nichi-ei kankei 1919-1941 [The royal dimension in Anglo-Japanese relations, 1919-1941]. In Ito, Y. & Kawata, M. (Eds.), Nijuseki Nihon No Tenno to Kunshusei-Kokusaihikaku No Shiten Kara 1867-1952 [the Emperor and Monarchy in Twentieth Century Japan (pp. 273-302). Yoshikawa Kōbunkan.

Best, Antony (2003). Imperial Japan. In Boyce, R. & Maiolo, J. A. (Eds.), The Origins of World War Two: the Debate Continues (pp. 52-69). Palgrave Macmillan.

Best, Antony (2002). Lord Sempill (1893-1965) and Japan, 1921-41. In Cortazzi, H. (Ed.), Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits (pp. 375-382). Japan Society (London, England).

Best, Antony (2002). Sir Robert Clive, 1877-1948: British ambassador to Japan, 1934-37. In Cortazzi, H. (Ed.), Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits (pp. 101-110). Japan Society (London, England).

Best, Antony (2000). The road to Anglo-Japanese confrontation, 1931-41. In Nish, I. & Kibata, Y. (Eds.), The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600-2000 : Volume Ii: the Political-Diplomatic Dimension, 1931-2000 (pp. 26-50). Palgrave Macmillan.

Best, Antony (1999). "That loyal British subject?": Arthur Edwardes and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1932-41. In Hoare, J. E. (Ed.), Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits (pp. 227-239). Routledge.

Best, Antony (1999). Britain and the coming of the Pacific War. In Iriye, A. (Ed.), Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War (pp. 194-207). Bedford/St. Martin's.

Best, Antony (1999). The British perspective. In Iriye, A. (Ed.), Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War (pp. 194-206). Bedford/St. Martin's.

Best, Antony (1997). Mamoru Shigemitsu and Anglo-Japanese relations. In Nish, I. (Ed.), Britian and Japan: Biographical Portaits (pp. 245-260). Routledge.

Best, Antony (1995). Sir Robert Craigie as ambassador to Japan, 1937-1941. In Nish, I. (Ed.), Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits . Routledge.

Conference or Workshop Item

Best, Antony (0001-01-03) 'The alternative enemy': Britain and the Soviet threat in East Asia, 1932-40 [Paper]. The annual British International History Group conference.

Best, Antony (0001-01-03) The European War and its effect on British policy towards Japan [Paper]. Fifty years after - the Pacific War re-examined, Lake Yamanaka, Japan, JPN.

Thesis

Best, Antony M. (1992). Avoiding war: The diplomacy of Sir Robert Craigie and Shigemitsu Mamoru, 1937-1941. [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.

Online resource

Best, Antony (2011). Igirisu kara mita taiheiyo senso no kigen: senso o kaihi denakatta (dai ei teikoku no shin nichi ha).

Working paper

Shillony, Ben-Ami, Best, Antony (2006). Japanese monarchy: past and present. (IS 512). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.

Best, Antony (1990). Shigemitsu Mamoru as Ambassador to Great Britain, 1938-1941. (International Studies papers IS/1990/219). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.