@theconversation.com 2 years ago
The UK's island identity has long shaped its political outlook – is that why it currently feels so adrift?
Shutterstock/Tony SkerlUK foreign policy has long been shaped by a particular geopolitical way of conceiving the nation’s place in the world. This island identity may have been forged in imperial times, but it remains hugely relevant in the post-Brexit world. In order to explain and justify its colossal empire – the largest the world has ever seen...