John Fisher is Associate Head of History at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), UK, and the author of several books, including British Diplomacy and the Descent into Chaos (2012). Effie G. H. Pedaliu is Fellow at LSE IDEAS, UK. She specialises in international history; the Cold War; Mediterranean Security; British and American Cold War diplomacy and strategy. Richard Smith is Senior Historian at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, UK, and editor of Documents on British Policy Overseas.