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Impacts of Two World Wars on the British Empire "The British ULTIMATUM to Germany on the 4th August 1914 committed the whole British Empire to war on the sole authority of the government in London. With Ireland on the verge of civil war, India in a state of ferment and the Dominions maturing as individual nations, it seemed to the Germans that the British Empire had come to the brink of dissolution and that a British declaration of war would push it over."1 Despite the past experiences, the Germans still failed to realise that Britain would make all efforts to...

The Start of the Decolonisation Process of the British Empire: The Dominions, and the Commonwealth. With Britain facing the rising competition of the United States, Japan and Germany, and political challenge within the Empire from the four white Dominions already exercising self-government in colonial affairs, the question of the political future of the Empire loomed larger than ever. One solution appeared to be to close ranks, to draw together the various colonies under a more centralised control from London. This did not impress the colonies already exercising responsible government. The idea of a grand imperial federation, as propagated by the...

Ali-Reza Moussavizadeh1   Summary The article examines the Irano-UK diplomatic relation, with an academic emphasis through the United Kingdom’s foreign policy-making the process, during the first and a half decade of the twenty first century. The two main British governing parties will be the focus of the article’s attention. This is a contemporary British diplomatic research into the relation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United Kingdom. The article starts by looking at the Labour foreign policy attitudes, and approaches, then moves on to the actual policy process of the Labour party, during the administration of the two...

Summary The ‘natural’ Party of Britain the Conservative Party, took the UK into co-operation with Europe. The idea of a European co-operation was a British one, by the Conservative Prime Minister, of WWII coalition Government, Winston Churchill. It is now the very ‘natural’ Party of Britain which is taking the country out of this co-operation, which is now known – as the European Union. The issue is deeper than what one might think of as, the effects of ‘globalisation’ it is much more profound than the ‘globalised’ economy. The British Conservative Government’s Political Elite, and The European Union: Safeguarding British...

No aspect of policy making is more intriguing and complex than foreign policy. As the world has become increasingly a maze of interdependent relationships, with economic, cultural, military, social, and even ethnic considerations making their weight felt upon every decision, from its inception down to its execution and implementation, so have the agencies of decision making become increasingly numerous, and complex, if not always interdependent. Evaluating, and analyzing, any state’s foreign policy towards another state, therefore, is a complex examinations of various factors, as is the case of Anglo-Iranian relations. The course of Anglo-Iranian relations never did run smooth throughout...