In the National Interest?: British Foreign Policy, Past, Present and Future

In a climate of global instability and domestic uncertainty, the question of what constitutes Britain’s ‘national interest’ has never been more urgent.

Acclaimed historian Jeremy Black’s In the National Interest? British Foreign Policy, Past, Present and Future provides a sweeping analytical narrative of the forces that have sculpted Britain’s engagement with the world—from the Middle Ages to the age of AI. Moving beyond the cloistered calm of traditional diplomatic history, Black argues tha...