British Foreign Policy and the National Interest

1. Introduction

1. Introduction
Jamie Gaskarth, Robin Porter, Timothy Edmunds

Part I. Britain in the World

2. The Uncertain Merger of Values and Interests in UK Foreign Policy
Jonathan Gilmore

3. The National Interest and Britain’s Role in the World
Jamie Gaskarth

4. National Interest and the Falklands War
Helen Parr

Part II. Whose National Interest?

5. A Citizen’s View of ‘National Interest’
Nick Ritchie

6. Critical Perspectives on the Concept of the ‘National Interest’: American Imperialism, British Foreign Policy and the Middle East
David Wearing

7. Why America?
Robin Porter

Part III. Strategy and Planning

8. Organising for British National Strategy
Alexander Evans

9. UK Nuclear Interests: Security, Resilience and Trident
Benoît Pelopidas, Jutta Weldes

10. Complexity, Strategy and the National Interest
Timothy Edmunds

11. National Interest and Strategy: An Ecologically Grounded Analysis
Max Taylor

12. Britain’s Strategic Culture in Context: A Typology of National Security Strategies
Tim Oliver, Austin Knuppe

13. Conclusion: A Return to the National Interest?
Timothy Edmunds, Jamie Gaskarth, Robin Porter

Avainsanat: Political Science and International Relations, International Relations, Political Science, Military and Defence Studies, British Politics, US Politics, Political History