Geopolitics and Identity in British Foreign Policy Discourse

The Island Race
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-44809-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

Reihe: Routledge Geopolitics Series

This is the first book to examine Britain’s geopolitical identity and how it is expressed in foreign policy discourse. It demonstrates how British imperial thought, related to its island status, has remained important for British Members of Parliament in their debates of contemporary issues.

It presents an exciting and provocative new reading of modern British foreign policy that decentres traditional notions of rationalism and pragmatism by foregrounding the much-neglected aspects of identity and geopolitical space. As British foreign policy-makers wrestle with how to define Britishness outside of the EU, this analysis provides a fresh perspective. It presents a much-needed historical contextualisation of long-standing concepts such as insularity from Europe and a universal aspect on world affairs.

This book will be highly relevant for students, researchers and professionals that are seeking to understand British foreign policy. It will be of interest to those researching and working within geopolitics, identity, sociology, foreign policy analysis and international relations.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whittaker, Nick

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction to the Island Race: Geopolitics and identity in British foreign policy

2. Understanding foreign policy, geopolitics and identity

3. A North Atlantic heritage and a Middle Eastern crisis: Island Race identity from the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty to the Suez Crisis

4. The insularity/universalism conundrum: Island Race identity and European integration, 1960-3

5. From the Heartlands of Eurasia to the South Atlantic: Thatcher and the reinvigoration of Island Race identity

6. International Communities and Island Stories: Geopolitics, globalisation and ontological security 1997-2015

7. Whose Island Story? Brexit, Global Britain and the geopolitics of belonging

8. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Nick Whittaker is a Subject Lead in Social Sciences and Law and tutor of International Relations at the University of Sussex International Study Centre. His articles have appeared in Geopolitics and Political Geography.