This book provides a long-term perspective on the opinions of the British public on foreign and defence policy in the post-war era. Thematically wide-ranging, i

Informed by Winston Churchill's famous metaphor, successive British governments have shaped their foreign policy thinking around the belief that Britain's overs

Based on excerpts from original sources, this book provides an introduction to the controversies and dilemmas that have confronted those making and implementing

Since 1945, Britain has had to cope with a slow descent from international primacy. The decline in global influence was intended to be offset by the United King

Foreign policy has dominated successive governments' time in office and cast a consistently long shadow over British politics in the period since 1945. Robert S