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| List of Tables and Maps | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction: Britain's Place in a Changing World | |
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| From 'superpower' to 'global hub' | |
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| Trying (and failing) to adjust to harsh realities? | |
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| 'Traditionalist' versus 'transformationalist' perspectives | |
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| British Power and the Burden of History | |
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| The rise of British imperial power | |
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| New threats and challenges: the British Empire and the 'resource gap' before 1914 | |
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| The First World War and its legacy | |
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| Foreign and defence policy challenges of the 1930s | |
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| The Second World War and the consequences of relative economic decline | |
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| Continuity and consensus in post-war foreign and defence policy | |
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| Ernest Bevin and the foundations of the post-war foreign policy consensus | |
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| From Empire to Commonwealth | |
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| The imperial legacy and the test of war | |
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| The withdrawal from Empire, phase 1: India and Palestine | |
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| Retrenchment and resistance, 1945-57 | |
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| The Suez crisis, 1956: the last blast of imperialism? | |
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| Withdrawal from Empire, phase 2: Harold Macmillan and the 'Wind of Change' | |
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| Forces driving the process of decolonization | |
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| Constraints upon Britain's imperial retreat | |
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| Britain and the transition to black majority rule in southern Africa | |
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| Fighting for the Falklands | |
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| Britain and the Commonwealth of Nations | |
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| Britain and European decolonisation: a comparative perspective | |
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| Britain, the Atlantic Alliance and the 'Special Relationship' | |
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| Wartime cooperation and conflict | |
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| Ernest Bevin and the policy of containment | |
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| Fluctuating fortunes: Churchill, Eden and Macmillan, 1951-63 | |
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| The Atlantic alliance in decline, 1964-79 | |
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| 'Special' once more? Thatcher, Major, Reagan and Bush, 1979-97 | |
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| New Labour, Clinton and George W. Bush | |
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| Gordon Brown and 'our most important bilateral relationship' | |
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| The nature of the 'Special Relationship' | |
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| 'Special Relationships': a sectoral perspective | |
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| Anglo-American relations since 1945: a cost-benefit analysis | |
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| Britain and Europe | |
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| Paying the 'Price of Victory' | |
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| Britain and the limits of cooperation, 1945-55 | |
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| 'Missing the boat': Britain's first two applications, 1955-69 | |
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| Edward Heath's European crusade and Labour's referendum, 1970-79 | |
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| Margaret Thatcher and the EU budget, 1979-84 | |
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| The Single European Act (SEA), the Delors Report and monetary union, 1984-90 | |
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| John Major: a change of tone but not substance | |
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| Tony Blair and the 'Europeanisation' of New Labour | |
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| New Labour, the euro, the Constitutional Treaty and other problems | |
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| Gordon Brown and selective Europeanism since 2007 | |
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| New Labour and the EU: continuity and change | |
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| The Problems of Conventional Defence | |
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| British military power: reacting to economic decline or adjusting to change? | |
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| Disillusioned hopes of military power with reduced expenditure, 1945-57 | |
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| Duncan Sandys and the defence White Paper of 1957 | |
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| The Wilson governments and the retreat from 'East of Suez' | |
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| The Thatcher governments and 'the Way Forward' | |
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| 'Options for Change' in a world turned upside down, 1989-97 | |
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| New Labour and hopes of delivering security in a changing world | |
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| Too many commitments, too little money? Defence funding since 1997 | |
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| Blair, Brown and the crisis of military overstretch | |
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| Expenditure priorities and the failures of defence procurement | |
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| Conventional defence forces since 1945: Plus ca change | |
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| Britain and the Bomb: The Quest for a Nuclear Deterrent | |
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| Wartime collaboration and US betrayal | |
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| The Attlee government and the independent nuclear deterrent | |
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| Churchill and the hydrogen bomb | |
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| Great power status - but at a price | |
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| Trying (and failing) to keep up with the superpowers | |
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| The Thatcher government and the purchase of Trident | |
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| New Labour and the upgrading of Trident | |
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| The US connection and the 'son of Star Wars' | |
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| New Labour, the 'Ethical Dimension' and 'Liberal Intervention' | |
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| Labour's commitment to an 'ethical dimension' in British foreign policy | |
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| New Labour and human rights abroad | |
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| New Labour, ethics and arms exports | |
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| The arms trade, bribery and the control of international corruption | |
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| International development and developing world debt relief | |
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| Climate change and the environmental agenda | |
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| The 'Blair doctrine', liberal intervention and the Kosovo campaign | |
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| Afghanistan, the Taliban and the 'war on terror' | |
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| Saddam Hussein, Operation Desert Fox and the Iraq War | |
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| Gordon Brown and the' 'Responsibility to Protect' | |
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| The 'ethical dimension' in retrospect | |
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| Making Foreign and Defence Policy in a Changing World | |
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| The complexity of the foreign policy process in Britain | |
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| Executive dominance in the formulation of foreign policy | |
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| Who makes British defence policy? | |
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| Outside the magic circle: who is excluded from the policy process? | |
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| Executive 'overload' and the problem of priorities | |
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| The problems of long-term planning and 'horizon-scanning' | |
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| Redefining the role of the FCO within a challenging Whitehall environment | |
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| Reviewing Britain's overseas representation | |
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| A much too Diplomatic Service? Defending the national interest | |
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| Reforming the composition and career structure: the Foresight initiative | |
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| The role of the intelligence services | |
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| Conclusion: the Challenge of an Uncertain Future | |
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| The changing international environment after 1945 | |
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| Continuity and change in British policy | |
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| The challenge of the unknown: redefining the threat | |
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| Devising a strategy for an uncertain world | |
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| Britain's position in the world - the more that changes the more that stays the same | |
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| Useful Websites for Foreign and Defence Sources | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |