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Description:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- A Note on Method -- Contents -- About Spies and Such -- Part One: The Context for Policymaking -- 1. The Peacemaking Phase and its Product -- 2. International Quarrels, Religious and Irreligious -- 3. International Attitudes and Outlooks -- Part Two: The Making of Spanish Habsburg Policy -- 4. The Ultimate Question: War or Peace? -- 5. The Policymaking Apparatus—Madrid -- 6. The Policymaking Apparatus—Brussels -- 7. Parenthesis: Portrait of a Bureaucracy -- 8. The Informational Base of Foreign Policy -- Part Three: Intelligence from England -- 9. The Court and Character of James I -- 10. Gondomar: The Classic Machiavelli -- 11. Jean-Baptiste van Male: A Renaissance Spymaster -- 12. William Sterrell: A Jacobean Letter Writer -- Part Four: Spanish Espionage Put to the Test -- 13. A Problem of Espionage -- 14. An Extraordinary Embassy from France -- 15. The Laying Bare of Secrets -- 16. Denouement: The Bassompierre Mission to Madrid -- 17. Van Male and the Six Dutch Deputies -- 18. Secrets not Laid Bare -- 19. Gondomar in Mid-February, 1621 -- 20. Van Male Blunders On -- 21. Denouement: The Pecquius Mission to the Hague -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Looks at the context of policy making specifically relating to the Spanish Hapsburg policy and intelligence from England