The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660–2000

DOOHWAN AHN Doctoral candidate, the University of Cambridge, UK DUNCAN BELL Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Studies, the University of Cambridge, UK JOHN BEW Lecturer in War Studies, King's College London, UK ADRIAN BRETTLE Doctoral candidate, the University of Virginia, USA ANTOINE CAPET Head of British Studies, the University of Rouen, France NICHOLAS CROWSON Reader in Contemporary British History, the University of Birmingham, UK DAVID EDGERTON Hans Rausing Professor, Imperial College London, UK GABRIEL GLICKMAN British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Hertford College, Oxford, UK RICHARD S. GRAYSON Head of Politics and Senior Lecturer in British and Irish Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK ANTHONY HOWE Professor of Modern History, the University of East Anglia, UK ALLAN I. MACINNES Professor of Early Modern History, University of Strathclye, UK GIDEON MAILER Title A Fellow, St. John's College, University of Cambridge, UK CHARLES IVAR MCGRATH Lecturer in the School of History and Archives, University College Dublin, Ireland JAMES MCKAY Post-doctoral Research Fellow, the University of Birmingham, UK PHILLIPS O'BRIEN Director of the Scottish Centre for War Studies, University of Glasgow, UK DAVID ONNEKINK Assistant Professor, Universities of Leiden and Utrecht, the Netherlands T.G.OTTE Senior Lecturer in Diplomatic History, University of East Anglia, UK PAUL READMAN Senior Lecturer in Modern British History, King's College London, UK CASPER SYLVEST Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark ANDREW THOMPSON College Lecturer in History, Queens' College, Cambridge, UK

External challenges, strategic threats, and war have shaped the course of modern British history. This volume examines how Britain mobilized to meet these challenges and how developments in the constitution, state, public sphere, and economy were a response to foreign policy issues from the Restoration to the rise of New Labour.External challenges, strategic threats, and war have shaped the course of modern British history. This volume examines how Britain mobilized to meet these challenges and how developments in the constitution, state, public sphere, and economy were a response to foreign policy issues from the Restoration to the rise of New Labour.