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A reassessment of the relationship between the UK and the USSR at a troubled time. The then Labour government's efforts to promote East-West détente and to improve Anglo-Soviet relations from 1964 to 1970 have been largely overlooked; yet they were of huge significance. This book offers a major reappraisal. It challenges the caricature of Harold Wilson's rigid subservience to America, demonstrating that as a Prime Minister he intended to develop closer contacts with the Soviet leadership, and to foster co-operation on arms control, conflict resolution in Vietnam and East-West trade. It illustrates how the Labour government reconciled its policy towards the USSR and Warsaw Pact states with its alignment with the USA and NATO membership. And it concludes that Wilson's failure to improve relations between the UK and USSR was due to both the impact of crises in Vietnam, the Middle East and Czechoslovakia, and to the unwillingness of the Soviet government to alter its fundamentally adversarial attitude to the West. GERAINT HUGHES teaches at the Joint Services Command and Staff College at Shrivenham.

Wilson, Harold, --- Wilson, James Harold, --- Wilson of Rievaulx, James Harold Wilson, --- Great Britain --- Soviet Union --- Foreign relations --- Politics and government --- HISTORY / Modern / General. --- Cold War. --- East-West Politics. --- Harold Wilson. --- Labour Government. --- UK-USSR relations.

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European Union Countries - Politics and government. --- Wilson, Harold, --- Wilson, James Harold, --- Wilson of Rievaulx, James Harold Wilson, --- Economic History --- Business & Economics --- European Union --- E.U. --- Great Britain --- European Union countries --- EU countries --- Euroland --- Europe --- Politics and government --- E-books

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This historical perspective on The Open University, founded in 1969, frames its ethos (to be open to people, places, methods and ideas) within the traditions of correspondence courses, commercial television, adult education, the post-war social democratic settlement and the Cold War. A critical assessment of its engagement with teaching, assessment and support for adult learners offers an understanding as to how it came to dominate the market for part-time studies. It also indicates how, as the funding and status of higher education shifted, it became a loved brand and a model for universities around the world. Drawing on previously ignored or unavailable records, personal testimony and recently digitised broadcast teaching materials, it recognises the importance of students to the maintenance of the university and places the development of learning and the uses of technology for education over the course of half a century within a wider social and economic perspective.

Open University. --- Open University --- Anoikto Panepistēmio --- OU --- Otkrytyĭ universitet, Velikobritanii︠a︡ --- Open University Great Britain --- British Open University --- Otkrytyĭ universitet, Velikobritanii͡ --- History. --- Harold Wilson. --- business model. --- higher education system. --- political framework. --- politics. --- socio-economic development. --- student-centred learning. --- students' participation. --- teaching methods.

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#BIBC:ruil --- Wilson, Harold Sir --- Labour Party (Great Britain) --- -Britanskai︠a︡ rabochai︠a︡ partīi︠a︡ --- British Labour Party --- Eikoku Rōdōtō --- Labor Party (Great Britain) --- Leĭboristskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Anglii --- Leĭboristskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Velikobritanii --- LPV --- Mifleget ha-laibor (Great Britain) --- Parti travailliste britannique --- Partido Laborista (Great Britain) --- Partido Laborista Británico --- Yŏngguk Nodongdang --- 工黨 (英國) --- Labour Representation Committee (Great Britain : 1900-1906) --- History --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- -Wilson, Harold, --- History. --- -History --- -#BIBC:ruil --- Wilson, Harold, --- Wilson, James Harold, --- Wilson of Rievaulx, James Harold Wilson, --- Britanskai︠a︡ rabochai︠a︡ partīi︠a︡

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This is the first full-length study of the fraught and controversial personal relationship between Prime Minister Harold Wilson and President Lyndon B Johnson, placed in the context of such issues as the Vietnam War, British economic weakness and the UK's dissociation from American measures in Vietnam.

Réunions au sommet --- Summit meetings --- Topontmoetingen --- Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1964-1979. --- Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States. --- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973. --- Summit meetings. --- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1963-1969. --- United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain. --- Wilson, Harold, 1916-1995. --- Great Britain --- United States - General --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Wilson, Harold, --- Johnson, Lyndon B. --- United States --- Foreign relations --- Conferences, Summit --- Meetings, Summit --- Summit conferences --- Summit diplomacy --- Summits (Meetings) --- Johnson, Lyndon Baines, --- Chan-sên, --- Dzhonson, Lindon, --- L. B. J. --- ג'ונסון, לינדון --- ジョンソン, --- Johnson, L. --- Čhō̜nsan, Lindō̜n Bī., --- Diplomacy --- Visits of state --- Johnson, Lyndon Baines --- Views on foreign relations --- 1963-1969 --- Case studies --- Wilson, Harold --- Wilson, James Harold, --- Wilson of Rievaulx, James Harold Wilson, --- america --- diplomacy --- politics --- transatlantic --- britain --- East of Suez --- London --- Lyndon B. Johnson --- Vietnam --- White House --- Politics and government. --- Society & Social Sciences --- Politics & government.