In recent years, leading British politicians, security analysts, and heads of government have come to recognize the considerable shifts in the nature and global distribution of power with critical implications for the United Kingdom’s security and long-term prosperity. Since 2016, a wide range of policy documents, speeches, and Parliamentary debates, have attempted to define and delineate the role which post-Brexit “global Britain” was to play in a changing security environment. This was prompted in no small measure by the ‘declinist’ narrative, which has come to dominate the conventional political narratives of highly developed Western societies confronted with the rapid rise of China and its increasing dominance of global markets, shipping routes, supply chains, military capabilities, and economic influence.
Global Britain’s Grand Strategy: The Baltic Pivot
Global Britain’s Grand Strategy: The Baltic…
Global Britain’s Grand Strategy: The Baltic Pivot
In recent years, leading British politicians, security analysts, and heads of government have come to recognize the considerable shifts in the nature and global distribution of power with critical implications for the United Kingdom’s security and long-term prosperity. Since 2016, a wide range of policy documents, speeches, and Parliamentary debates, have attempted to define and delineate the role which post-Brexit “global Britain” was to play in a changing security environment. This was prompted in no small measure by the ‘declinist’ narrative, which has come to dominate the conventional political narratives of highly developed Western societies confronted with the rapid rise of China and its increasing dominance of global markets, shipping routes, supply chains, military capabilities, and economic influence.