British Foreign and Defence Policy Since 1945

Robert Self has produced a very useful survey of British foreign and defence policy from the end of the Second World War until the present day; from the Attlee government and the post-war consensus to the Blair-Brown era of humanitarian intervention.' -Kate Utting, Defence Studies Department, King's College London, Diplomacy & Statescraft

Foreign policy has dominated successive governments' time in office and cast a consistently long shadow over British politics in the period since 1945. Robert Self provides a readable and incisive assessment of the key issues and events from the retreat from empire through the cold war period to Humanitarian Intervention and the debacle in Iraq.Foreign policy has dominated successive governments' time in office and cast a consistently long shadow over British politics in the period since 1945. Robert Self provides a readable and incisive assessment of the key issues and events from the retreat from empire through the cold war period to Humanitarian Intervention and the debacle in Iraq.