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Foreign policy: FCO Planning Staff minute for MT (“Is Intervention Ever Justified?”) [paper for post-Grenada seminar on international law] [released 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: THCR 1/10/61-part2 f3
Editorial comments: Dated July 1984; precise date estimated. The paper was considered at a Chequers seminar on foreign policy and long-term strategy on 1 October 1984. The Planning Staff was then headed by Pauline Neville-Jones, with David Manning her deputy.
Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 50pp
Themes: Foreign policy - theory and process, Foreign policy (International organizations), Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Law & order, Religion & morality, British relations with the US, British relations with the Soviet Union