Download or read book British Foreign and Defence Policy Since 1945 written by Robert Self and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign policy has dominated successive governments' time in office and cast a consistently long shadow over British politics in the period since 1945. Robert Self provides a readable and incisive assessment of the key issues and events from the retreat from empire through the cold war period to Humanitarian Intervention and the debacle in Iraq.