Srdjan Vucetic

Greatness and Decline (eBook, ePUB)

National Identity and British Foreign Policy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Exceptionalist ideas have long influenced British foreign policy. As Britain begins to confront the challenges of a post-Brexit era in an increasingly unstable world, a re-examination of the nature and causes of this exceptionalist bent is in order.Arguing that Britain's search for greatness in world affairs was, and still is, a matter of habit, Srdjan Vucetic takes a closer look at the period between Clement Attlee's "e;New Jerusalem"e; and Tony Blair's New Labour. Britain's tenacious pursuit of global power was never just a function of consensus among policymakers or even political elites more broadly. Rather, it developed from popular, everyday, and gradually evolving ideas about identity circulating within British - and, more specifically, English - society as a whole. To uncover these ideas, Vucetic works with a unique archive of political speeches, newspapers, history textbooks, novels, and movies across colonial, Cold War, and post-Cold War periods.Greatness and Decline sheds new light on Britain's interactions with the rest of the world while demonstrating new possibilities for constructivist foreign policy analysis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780228006404
• Artikelnr.: 72309813

Autorenporträt

Srdjan Vucetic is associate professor of international affairs at the University of Ottawa.