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Snapshot,
April 9, 2013
Margaret Thatcher re-established the United Kingdom as a major force on the international scene. But she failed to see that the best hope for Europe's future was integration.
Snapshot,
April 4, 2013
Despite the claims of its champions, the fair-trade movement doesn't help alleviate poverty in developing countries. Even worse, it is just another direct farm subsidy of the kind most conscientious consumers despise. In the long term, the world needs free trade, not fair trade.
Foreign policy realists have long found inspiration in the ideas of Lord Castlereagh, who served as British foreign secretary during and after the Napoleonic Wars. A new biography of the statesman presents him as more ideological than is traditionally assumed, and suggests that his example is more relevant than ever -- and might even hold the key to solving Europe's ongoing crisis.
Today, the War of 1812 is all but forgotten. But as two recent books show, its legacies -- helping professionalize the U.S. military, planting the seeds of manifest destiny, and laying the groundwork for a long-standing Anglo-American alliance -- endure today.
Essay,
Sept/Oct
2012
As a referendum on Scotland’s independence looms, the question of the region’s place in the United Kingdom has become the most pressing issue in British politics. Its experience shows how a smart secessionist party can dismantle a functioning country, and how central governments eager to buy off regions can end up making matters worse.
Snapshot,
August 18, 2011
Cameron's response to this month's unrest in London might have cost him the cooperation of the Liberal Democrats and derailed his economic and social policies for good. His coalition government is not likely to fall any time soon, but he will face deadlock for months to come.
Snapshot,
August 11, 2011
Unlike Margaret Thatcher in 1981, British Prime Minister David Cameron has appeared totally unprepared for the social unrest that his spending cuts have inevitably unleashed. The result: ugly class politics are back in Britain.
Snapshot,
May 4, 2010
The British election on May 6 is not just business as usual. It will reconfigure British domestic politics and foreign policy.
Reading List,
August 10, 2009
An annotated Foreign Affairs syllabus on transatlantic relations.
Letter From,
March 12, 2009
In the United Kingdom, backlash against workers from other countries in the European Union is growing. Any measures to limit foreign labor, however, may threaten the future of the European common market.
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