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International History
  • 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 picture_as_pdf
  • 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 (2019). A royal alliance: court diplomacy and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1902-41. In Kornicki, Peter, Best, Antony, Cortazzi, Hugh (Eds.), 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 (2018). British relations with Japan, 1858-2017: an overview. In Best, Antony, Cortazzi, Hugh (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, Antony, Cortazzi, Hugh (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, Antony, Cortazzi, Hugh (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 (Ed.) (2016). Britain's retreat from Empire in East Asia, 1905-1980. Routledge.
  • Best, Antony (2016). ‘The Jackal’s Share’: Whitehall, the City of London and British policy towards the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–9. In Fisher, John, Pedaliu, Effie G. H., Smith, Richard (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). 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 (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, Hanhimäki, Jussi M., Maiolo, Joseph A., Schulze, Kirsten E. (2014). International history of the twentieth century and beyond. Routledge.
  • Best, Antony (2014). The British Empire's image of East Asia, 1900-41: politics, ideology, and international order. In Murfett, Malcolm (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, John W., Pedaliu, Effie G. H., Kandiah, Michael 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). 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 (2013). Japan and the Cold War. In Immerman, Richard H., Goedde, Petra (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, Masataka (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, Hugh (Ed.), Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits (pp. 469-480). Global Oriental.
  • Best, Antony (2013). Major-General F.S.G. Piggott (1883-1966). In Cortazzi, Hugh (Ed.), Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits (pp. 102-116). Global Oriental.
  • 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
  • Fisher, John, Best, Antony (2011). Introduction: on the fringes of diplomacy: influences on British foreign policy, 1800-1945. In Fisher, John, Best, Antony (Eds.), On the Fringes of Diplomacy: Influences on British Foreign Policy, 1800-1945 (pp. 1-16). Ashgate Dartmouth.
  • Fisher, John, Best, Antony (Eds.) (2011). On the fringes of diplomacy: influences on British foreign policy, 1800-1945. Ashgate Dartmouth.
  • Best, Antony (2011). The double agent’s tale: Vincent Kraft and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1915-18. In Fisher, John, Best, Antony (Eds.), On the Fringes of Diplomacy: Influences on British Foreign Policy, 1800-1945 (pp. 111-126). Ashgate Dartmouth.
  • 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 (2011). Igirisu kara mita taiheiyo senso no kigen: senso o kaihi denakatta (dai ei teikoku no shin nichi ha).
  • Best, Antony (2010). General introduction. In Best, Antony (Ed.), Imperial Japan and the World, 1931-1945 . Routledge.
  • Best, Antony (Ed.) (2010). Imperial Japan and the world, 1931-1945. Routledge.
  • Best, Antony (2010). The Shanghai Temper': J.O.P. Bland (1863-1945) and Japan. In Cortazzi, Hugh (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, Antony (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, Antony (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, Hugh (Ed.), Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits (pp. 69-80). Global Oriental. https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9781906876265.i-666.46
  • Best, Antony (Ed.) (2009). The international history of East Asia, 1900–1968 - trade, ideology and the quest for order. Routledge.
  • Best, Antony (2008). The role of diplomatic practice and court protocol in Anglo-Japanese relations, 1867-1900. In Mosslang, Markus, Riotte, Torsten (Eds.), The Diplomats’ World: the Cultural History of Diplomacy, 1815-1914 (pp. 231-253). Oxford University Press/German Historical Institute.
  • Best, Antony, Hanhimäki, Jussi M., Maiolo, Joseph A., Schulze, Kirsten E. (2008). International history of the twentieth century and beyond. Routledge.
  • 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, Sadako, Hanzawa, Tomohiko (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, Hugh (Ed.), Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits (pp. 63-70). Global Oriental. https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9781905246335.1-448.52
  • 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 (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). British intellectuals and East Asia in the inter-war years. In Louis, W M Roger (Ed.), Yet More Adventures With Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain (pp. 305-320). Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
  • 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, Hanhimäki, Jussi M., Maiolo, Joseph A., Schulze, Kirsten E. (2004). International history of the twentieth century. Routledge.
  • Best, Antony (2004). India, pan-Asianism and the Anglo-Japanese alliance. In O'Brien, Phillips 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, Robert, Maiolo, Joseph A (Eds.), The Origins of World War Two: the Debate Continues (pp. 52-69). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Best, Antony (2002). British intelligence and the Japanese challenge in Asia, 1914-1941. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • 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 (2002). Lord Sempill (1893-1965) and Japan, 1921-41. In Cortazzi, Hugh (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, Hugh (Ed.), Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits (pp. 101-110). Japan Society (London, England).
  • 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 (2000). The road to Anglo-Japanese confrontation, 1931-41. In Nish, Ian, Kibata, Yoichi (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, Jim E (Ed.), Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits (pp. 227-239). Routledge.
  • Best, Antony (1999). Britain and the coming of the Pacific War. In Iriye, Akira (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, Akira (Ed.), Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War (pp. 194-206). Bedford/St. Martin's.
  • 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 (1997). Mamoru Shigemitsu and Anglo-Japanese relations. In Nish, Ian (Ed.), Britian and Japan: Biographical Portaits (pp. 245-260). Routledge.
  • 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 (1995). Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbour avoiding war in East Asia, 1936-1941. Routledge.
  • Best, Antony (1995). Sir Robert Craigie as ambassador to Japan, 1937-1941. In Nish, Ian (Ed.), Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits . Routledge.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
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  • 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. picture_as_pdf
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  • 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.
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  • 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.