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Oct 31, 2019 · The growth of these rivals exposed the fact that Britain was, effectively, “an artificial world power”, to quote the German commentator Constantin Frantz in 1882, because its “territorial basis” was “just a European country” and its resources came from far-flung colonies connected to the home island only “through the threads of ...
Mar 3, 2011 · The catastrophic British defeats in Europe and Asia between 1940 and 1942 destroyed its financial and economic independence, the real foundation of the imperial system. Britain had survived the...
Apr 16, 2015 · Is the UK's role on the world stage a decades-long story of managed decline, including the orderly withdrawal from a once vast empire? Or is it the story of a medium-sized power whose...
Nov 22, 2023 · Littered with hubristic language such as ‘world-beating’, it was designed to demonstrate that, post-Brexit, ‘Global Britain’ was just that, a global power. In the time it has taken to lurch from Boris Johnson to Rishi Sunak via Liz Truss a greater sense of reality appears to have set in.
Sep 13, 2024 · Britain is no longer a great power, at least not in the historical sense. The intensification of global security competition has arguably redefined what it actually means to exercise influence.
England - soon to be rebadged the Kingdom of Great Britain after the Acts of Union of 1707 - would get the textiles trade and the Dutch would keep the spice trade. The road was now almost clear for the British Empire to emerge as the dominant power in the world.
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Sep 1, 2020 · For example, John H. Maurer, in his assessment of the British response to Imperial Germany’s naval expansionism before 1914, concludes, “As Keith Neilson argued, Britain was no weary titan but a formidable Great Power, fully capable of competing in the international rivalries of that troubled age and beating back challengers, its...
