History of Foreign Policy of Great Britain: Textbook. Kapitonova N.K., Romanova E.V.

This work is the first textbook in Russian historiography to the evolution of British foreign policy from the early New Age, when the traditions of the policy of the balance of power in Europe and trade-colonial expansion were laid, and up to the second decade of the XXI century. The work traces a change in the position of Great Britain in the system of international relations, its transformation in the XIX century. In a powerful world power with global coverage of interests and the struggle to maintain this status against the backdrop of increased competition in the international arena in the 20th century, its subsequent transition from the category of the “great” to the category of “middle powers of the first rank”.

An important place in the study is an analysis of the main directions of the British foreign policy-transatlantic, European, along the line of the colonial empire transformed into the Commonwealth, as well as the relationship of the east-west, in the formation of which the UK has always played one of the leading roles.

The basis of work, which is the result of many years of teaching activities of authors, reading the corresponding lecture courses in MGIMO and at the Faculty of Faculty of Moscow State University for a long period, is the study of archival sources, as well as studies of both domestic and foreign historians.