The Island Race: geopolitics and identity in British foreign policy discourse since 1949
@inproceedings{Whittaker2016TheIR,
title={The Island Race: geopolitics and identity in British foreign policy discourse since 1949},
author={Nicholas James Whittaker},
year={2016}
}This thesis examines Britain’s foreign policy identity by analysing the use of geopolitical tropes in discursive practices of ontological security-seeking in the British House of Commons since 1949, a period of great change for Britain as it lost its empire and joined NATO and the EC. The Empire was narrated according to a series of geopolitical tropes that I call Island Race identity: insularity from Europe and a universal aspect on world affairs, maintenance of Lines of Communication… CONTINUE READING
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