Paul Corthorn is Lecturer in Modern British History at University College, Oxford. He is the author of 'In the Shadow of the Dictators: The British Left in the 1930s' (I.B.Tauris, 2006). Jonathan Davis is Lecturer in Russian and Soviet History at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

• Introduction (Andrew Thorpe)1 - A Gentleman at the Foreign Office: influences in shaping Ramsay MacDonald’s internationalism in 1924 (John Shepherd)2 - ‘A Commanding Group’? Labour’s Advisory Committee on International Questions 1928-31 (Casper Sylvest)3 - Labour’s Political Thought: the Soviet influence in the interwar years (Jonathan Davis)4 - The Labour Party in the Era of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939-41 (Paul Corthorn)5 - The Foreign Policy of the Attlee Government, 1945-50 (John Callaghan)6 - Labour Party Factionalism and West German Rearmament, 1950-4 (Robert Crowcroft)7 - ‘The Challenge of Co-Existence’: the Labour Party, affluence and the Cold War, 1951-64 (Richard Tye and Nicholas Lawton)8 - From ‘Danny the Red’ to British Student Power: Labour and the international student revolts of the 1960s (David Fowler)9 - Humanitarian Intervention, the Labour Party and the Press: the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s (Ann Schreiner)10 - From Clinton to Bush: New Labour, the USA and the Iraq War (Mark Phythian)