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The Tory World - Deep History and the Tory Theme in British Foreign Policy, 1679-2014 (Paperback)
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The Tory World - Deep History and the Tory Theme in British Foreign Policy, 1679-2014 (Paperback)
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Political decisions are never taken in a vacuum but are shaped both
by current events and historical context. In other words, long-term
developments and patterns in which the accumulated memory of what
came earlier, can greatly (and sometimes subconsciously) influence
subsequent policy choices. Working forward from the later
seventeenth century, this book explores the 'deep history' of the
changing and competing understandings within the Tory party of the
role Britain has aspired to play on a world stage. Conservatism has
long been one of the major British political tendencies, committed
to the defence of established institutions, with a strong sense of
the 'national interest', and embracing both 'liberal' and
'authoritarian' views of empire. The Tory party has, moreover, at
several times been deeply divided, if not convulsed, by different
perspectives on Britain's international orientation and different
positions on foreign and imperial policy. Underlying Tory beliefs
upon which views of Britain's global role were built were often not
stated but assumed. As a result they tend to be obscured from
historical view. This book seeks to recover and reconsider those
beliefs, and to understand how the Tory party has sought to
navigate its way through the difficult pathways of foreign and
imperial politics, and why this determination outlasted Britain's
rapid decolonisation and was apparently remarkably little affected
by it. With a supporting cast from Pitt to Disraeli, Churchill to
Thatcher, the book provides a fascinating insight into the
influence of history over politics. Moreover it argues that there
has been an inherent politicisation of the concept of national
interests, such that strategic culture and foreign policy cannot be
understood other than in terms of a historically distorted
political debate.
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