The role of the British Intelligence Services during the End of Empire and the Early Cold War: from Attlee to Churchill

本研究旨在探讨英国情报部门在战后初期英国外交和帝国政策的制定和实施中的作用和影响，重点关注艾德礼和丘吉尔政府之间的变化或缺失。最初的假设是，英国和国际秩序的结构性变化通过降低诉诸军事力量的合法性和吸引力，增加了秘密情报的影响力和对它的依赖。该项目将借鉴新公布的外交部和殖民地办公室的文件，以质疑以前的史学。

This project aims to establish the role and influence of British Intelligence in the making and implementation ofBritish foreign and imperial policy in the immediate post-war period, with a focus on the changes or lack thereofbetween the Attlee and Churchill governments. The initial hypothesis is that structural changes in Britain and theinternational order increased the influence of secret intelligence and reliance on it, by reducing the legitimacy of,and attraction to, resorting to military force. The project will draw from newly-released Foreign Office andColonial Office files in order to problematize the previous historiography.