Tancred Bradshaw received his PhD in 2004 from SOAS, University of London and has since taught at Birkbeck College, London City University and Florida State University. He currently works as an independent historian and regional consultant. He has previously published The Glubb Reports (2015) and Britain and Jordan (I.B.Tauris, 2012), as well as numerous peer-reviewed journal articles.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Benign Neglect: the Government of India and the Trucial States, c. 1800-1947Chapter 2: The Neo-Raj: British Policy in the Trucial States during the 1950sChapter 3: The Conservative Government and the Trucial States, 1960-1964: the Consolidation of British InfluenceChapter 4: Responsibility Without Power: The Vicissitudes of British policy in the Trucial States, 1964-1967Chapter 5: The Withdrawal from the Gulf: All Politics and No StrategyChapter 6: EpilogueConclusionBibliography

Tancred Bradshaw received his PhD in 2004 from SOAS, University of London and has since taught at Birkbeck College, London City University and Florida State University. He currently works as an independent historian and regional consultant. He has previously published The Glubb Reports (2015) and Britain and Jordan (I.B.Tauris, 2012), as well as numerous peer-reviewed journal articles.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Benign Neglect: the Government of India and the Trucial States, c. 1800-1947Chapter 2: The Neo-Raj: British Policy in the Trucial States during the 1950sChapter 3: The Conservative Government and the Trucial States, 1960-1964: the Consolidation of British InfluenceChapter 4: Responsibility Without Power: The Vicissitudes of British policy in the Trucial States, 1964-1967Chapter 5: The Withdrawal from the Gulf: All Politics and No StrategyChapter 6: EpilogueConclusionBibliography

Tancred Bradshaw received his PhD in 2004 from SOAS, University of London and has since taught at Birkbeck College, London City University and Florida State University. He currently works as an independent historian and regional consultant. He has previously published The Glubb Reports (2015) and Britain and Jordan (I.B.Tauris, 2012), as well as numerous peer-reviewed journal articles.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Benign Neglect: the Government of India and the Trucial States, c. 1800-1947Chapter 2: The Neo-Raj: British Policy in the Trucial States during the 1950sChapter 3: The Conservative Government and the Trucial States, 1960-1964: the Consolidation of British InfluenceChapter 4: Responsibility Without Power: The Vicissitudes of British policy in the Trucial States, 1964-1967Chapter 5: The Withdrawal from the Gulf: All Politics and No StrategyChapter 6: EpilogueConclusionBibliography