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United Kingdom

Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of the United Kingdom’s domestic politics and London’s role in Europe and the world, past and present.

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Britain After Ukraine

A New Foreign Policy for an Age of Great-Power Competition

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How Britain Stumbled

Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK

Can Sunak Save Britain?

The Queen’s Diplomacy

Britain After Ukraine

How Brexit and Boris Broke Britain

Greater: Britain After the Storm

The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler

Disruption: Inside the Largest Counterterrorism Investigation in History

The Myth of Global Britain

The Never-Ending Brexit

Waterloo Sunrise: London From the Sixties to Thatcher

Empire and Jihad: The Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870–1920

Principles and Agents: The British Slave Trade and Its Abolition

The Changing of the Guard: The British Army Since 9/11

Brexitland: Identity, Diversity, and the Reshaping of British Politics

Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America

The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies, and Exile in Russia; The Extraordinary Story of George Blake

The Delusions of Global Britain

Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain’s Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency

What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule

Remaking One Nation: The Future of Conservatism

Boris Johnson: The Gambler

Fear of Trump’s Populism Might Save American Alliances

Moral Virtue in the Time of Cholera

The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II

America’s Exceptional Housing Crisis

Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal After World War II

The Tipping Point: Britain, Brexit, and Security in the 2020s

War for Eternity: Inside Bannon’s Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers

What Fast Track for Asylum Seekers From Hong Kong?

To Protect and to Serve

Coronavirus Bailouts Stoke Climate Change

Can Middle Powers Lead the World Out of the Pandemic?

No Island Is an Island—Not Even Britain

How the West Stole Democracy From the Arabs: The Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of Its Liberal-Islamic Alliance

Island Stories: An Unconventional History of Britain

Better Off Without the British?

Brexit Is Just the Beginning

Agent Running in the Field: A Novel

Twelve Days That Made Modern Britain

The Neoliberal Collapse

A Short History of Brexit

When Progressives Were on the March

How the Brexit Election Was Reduced to Trivia

Are Populists Unusually Prone to Political Blunders?

Protest and Power: The Battle for the Labour Party

The Future of British Foreign Policy: Security and Diplomacy in a World After Brexit

The Not So Special Relationship

Ireland’s Rocky Road to Unity

Dreams of Leaving and Remaining

Boris Johnson and the Politics of Neo-Poodleism

The Surreal Contest to Succeed Theresa May

How Should a Liberal Be?

The Price of Peace in Northern Ireland

Two Books on Espionage and Covert Operations

Can Change UK Break Up the British Two-Party System?

The Brexit Breakup Gets Messier

How Theresa May’s Brexit Deal Collapsed

English Nationalism: A Short History

The Original Hidden Figures

The Islamic State in Britain: Radicalization and Resilience in an Activist Network

Operation Columba—The Secret Pigeon Service: The Untold Story of World War II Resistance in Europe

The Worst Brexit Option, Except for All the Others

Plugging In the British: Completing the Circuit

Is a “No Deal” Brexit Still Avoidable?

Brexit and Broken Promises

Scots and Catalans: Union and Disunion

Will Brexit Bring Down Theresa May's Government?

Northern Ireland's Brexit Problem

Theresa May's Impossible Vision for Brexit

Theresa May's Brexit Dilemma

The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics

The Taste of Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

How Conservatives Can Make Housing a Winning Issue

The Balfour Declaration

Why the British Chose Brexit

Public and Private Eyes

Brexit and the Northern Irish Border

The United Kingdom’s Trump Trap

A Tale of Two Socialists

The Brexit Vote, One Year Later

British Counterterrorism After the Election

Generation Corbyn

The Lessons of Little States

British Intelligence Fails Again

Don’t Blame Corbyn

The Manchester Bombing and British Counterterrorism

Theresa May's Gamble

Why the UK Voted for Brexit: David Cameron’s Great Miscalculation

Britain's EU Breakup Begins

Pulling the Trigger on Brexit

British Counterterrorism Policy After Westminster

Lone Wolves No More

Why the London Attacker Was No Lone Wolf

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