Books

Crisis and Controversy: Essays in Honour of A.J.P. Taylor (ed. with C. Cook), Macmillan, 1976. — Search

The Survival of the Habsburg Empire: Radetzky, the Imperial Army and the Class War, 1848, Longman, 1979. — Search

Europe's Balance of Power, 1815–1848 (ed.), Macmillan, 1979. — Search

Post-War Britain: A Political History (with C. Cook), Penguin/Harvester, 1979; later enlarged editions. — Search

Britain's Decline: Problems and Perspectives, Basil Blackwell, 1986. — Search

The Decline and Fall of the Habsburg Empire, 1815–1918, Longman, 1989; expanded editions. — WorldCat

An Intelligent Person's Guide to Post-War Britain, Duckworth, 1997. — Search

Metternich and Austria: An Evaluation, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007. — Search

Radetzky: Imperial Victor and Military Genius, I.B. Tauris, 2012. — Search

The Case for Brexit, Dictus Publishing, 2021. — Search

Scotland: A Unionist History, London, 2026. — Search

Published Articles and Chapters

“Nietzsche”, in E. de Bono (ed.), The Greatest Thinkers, Weidenfeld, 1975. — Search

“Clausewitz”, in E. de Bono (ed.), The Greatest Thinkers, Weidenfeld, 1975. — Search

“Metternich and the Federalist Myth”, in Sked & Cook (eds.), Crisis and Controversy, 1976. — Search

“The Liberal Tradition and the Lib-Lab Pact”, West European Politics, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1978. — Search

“Die britischen Liberalen, Schottischen und Walesischen Nationalisten”, Der Bürger im Staat, 1978. — Search

“Die Weltpolitische Lage Grossbritanniens nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg”, in O. Hauser (ed.), Weltpolitik III, 1978. — Search

“Scottish Nationalism”, Sucasnist, 1979. — Search

“The Metternich System, 1815–1848”, in Europe's Balance of Power, 1815–1848, 1979. — Search

European Diplomatic History, 1830–1870, Open University Course Unit, 1979. — Search

“Historians, the Nationality Question and the Downfall of the Habsburg Empire”, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th Series, Vol. 31, 1981. — Search

“Metternich's Europe”, History Today, June 1983. — Search

“Le Democrazie tra il 1918 e il 1940”, in Massimo Guidetti (ed.), L'Europa nell'Orizzonte del Mondo, 1984. — Search

“Die britische Arbeiterbewegung und der Marshall Plan”, in Haberl & Niethammer (eds.), Der Marshall Plan und die europäische Linke, 1986. — Search

“A Patriot for Whom? Colonel Redl and a Question of Identity”, History Today, July 1986. — Search

“The Study of International Relations: A Historian's View”, Millennium, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1987, pp. 251–262. — Search

“Great Britain: From World Power to Membership of the European Community”, 1988. — Search

“The Study of International Relations: A Historian's View”, in Dyer & Mangasarian (eds.), The Study of International Relations: The State of the Art, 1989. — Search

“The Habsburg Monarchy and the Challenge of Nationalism”, in Birke & Heydemann (eds.), 1989. — Search

“Austria and Germany: The Growth of an Inferiority Complex?”, 1989. — Search

“Commentary Two”, The Contemporary Record, Vol. 2, No. 5, 1989. — Search

“Explaining the Habsburg Empire”, in B. Waller (ed.), Themes in European History, 1830–90, 1990. — Search

“Great Britain and the German Question, 1848–1890”, in Das gestörte Gleichgewicht, 1990. — Search

“Myths of European Unity”, The National Interest, No. 22, Winter 1990/91. — Search

“Cheap Excuses”, The National Interest, No. 24, Summer 1991. — Search

“Die Mythen der europäischen Einheit”, Europäische Rundschau, Vol. 19, No. 2, 1991. — Search

“Deutschland und die Golfkrise”, Europäische Rundschau, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1992. — Search

“A Proposal for European Union”, in Patrick Robertson (ed.), Reshaping Europe in the Twenty-First Century, 1992. — Search

“A Proposal for European Union”, in Patrick Minford (ed.), The Cost of Europe, 1992. — Search

“Evropa A Stare Rise – Posledni Stoleti Habsburku”, Střední Evropa, Vol. 36, 1994. — Search

“Nationalism in the Fin de Siècle Habsburg Monarchy”, European Review, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1994. — Search

“Erst durch den Krieg fiel der Vielvölkerstaat auseinander”, Damals, Vol. 26, September 1994. — Search

“Sked: Gli Italiani sono fuggiti dall'ideologia”, Ideazione, 1994. — Search

“Inghilterra tentata dal modello continentale”, Ideazione, 1995. — Search

“The England of Mrs Thatcher”, Historia 16, Madrid, 1996. — Search

Entries on Churchill, Thatcher, Douglas-Home, Major, Howe, Foot, Smith, Bevan, Jenkins and Kinnock, in The Oxford Companion to British History, 1997. — Search

“Jelacic in the Summer of 1848”, Südost-Forschungen, Vol. 57, 1998. — Search

“The European State System in the Modern World”, in Attila Pok (ed.), The Fabric of Modern Europe, 1999. — Search

“NATO and the Balkans”, Defensor Pacis, Issue 3, Athens, 1999. — Search

“Great Britain and the Continental Revolutions of 1848”, in An Anglo-German Dialogue, 2000. — Search

“Leider sind wir normal…”, in Arnswald et al. (eds.), Sind die Deutschen Ausländerfeindlich?, 2000. — Search

“The European Empires: A Case of Fall without Decline?”, in The Decline of Empires, 2001. — Search

“Re-Imagining Empire: The Persistence of the Austrian Idea in the Historical Work of Heinrich Ritter von Srbik”, Radovi, Vol. 50, No. 1. — Search

“The Political Parties”, in Jonathan Holowell (ed.), Britain Since 1945, 2003, pp. 40–58. — Search

“Mirror Images: Kossuth and Jelacic in 1848–49”, 2003. — Search

“Metternich and the Ficquelmont Mission of 1847–48”, Central Europe, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2004, pp. 15–46. — Search

“Living on One's Wits: J. A. Blackwell's Vain Attempts to Become British Consul in Hungary”, 2004. — Search

“Poor Intelligence, Flawed Results: Metternich, Radetzky, and the Crisis-Management of Austria's ‘Occupation’ of Ferrara in 1847”, 2005. — Search

“Empire: A Few Thoughts”, Ab Imperio, Vol. 1/2005, pp. 65–68. — Search

Introduction to William Mallinson's Cyprus: A Modern History, 2005. — Search

“Franz Joseph and the Creation of the Ringstrasse”, The Court Historian, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2006, pp. 29–41. — Search

“Talleyrand and England, 1792–1838: A Reinterpretation”, Diplomacy and Statecraft, Vol. 17, 2006, pp. 647–664. — Search

“Power and Professionalism”, Austrian History Yearbook, Vol. XXXVII, 2006, pp. 62–67. — Search

“Benedek, Breinl and the ‘Galician Horrors’ of 1846”, 2008, pp. 87–98. — Search

“Talleyrand and England, 1792–1838: A Reinterpretation”, in Stone & Otte (eds.), Anglo-French Relations since the Late Eighteenth Century, 2008. — Search

“Austria and the ‘Galician Massacres’ of 1846: Schwarzenberg and the Propaganda War”, 2010. — Search

“Social Life and Legal Constraints: The Habsburg Army, 1890–1918”, European Journal on Law and History, Vol. 3, 2012, pp. 11–32. — Search

“Race in America: From Civil War to Civil Rights”, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 49, No. 2, 2014, pp. 440–453. — Search

“Austria, Prussia and the Wars of Liberation, 1813–1814”, Austrian History Yearbook, Vol. 45, 2014, pp. 89–114. — Search

“Austria-Hungary and the First World War”, histoire@politique, No. 22, 2014. — Search

“Hollywood: Propaganda and Control”, Journal on European History of Law, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2015, pp. 84–102. — Search

“Belle Époque: Europe before 1914”, in Nicholas Doumanis (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of European History, 1914–1945, 2016, pp. 23–40. — Search

“The Case for Brexit: Why Britain Should Leave the EU”, in Zimmerman & Dür (eds.), Key Controversies in European Integration, 2nd ed., 2016. — Search

“The Nationality Problem in the Habsburg Monarchy and the Revolutions of 1848: A Reassessment”, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp. 322–344. — Search

“The Historical Significance of the First World War”, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2018, pp. 21–47. — Search

“Rethinking the History of the Habsburg Empire: Judson's New History”, Canadian Journal of History, Vol. 54, 2019, pp. 166–174. — Search

“Nationalism: The Great Powers Factor”, Zbornik Drage Roksandica, 2019. — Searc