This paper attempts to concisely detail the evolution of Britain's post-war defense posture. Dividing it into six phases between 1945 and 1979 its emphasis is on the trends with regard to defense spending as a share of GDP, the manning of the forces, their mission and deployment internationally,...

This paper presents an analysis of the rise and decline of British economic predominance which emphasizes the interaction of geography with other economic, technological and political forces amid a context of other actors similarly shaped by such interactions. It argues for this interaction as...

This paper, based on the author's prior work, endeavors to condense into a brief, succinct discussion of the resourcing of Britain's military position, discussed here as "semi-superpower status," in the 1945-1971 period

"'What Did Margaret Thatcher Do'?: A Survey of the Thatcher Prime Ministership's Economic and Social Policies" endeavors to offer a systematic, grounded and properly contextualized, but still concise, summation of the British Prime Minister's conduct in the area of domestic economic and social...

The use of the term "neoliberal" has become controversial in recent years, at least in part because of its diversity of possible uses, and the apparent vagueness or looseness of some of those uses. That controversy has significantly extended to the characterization of center-left political...

In this paper the author reconsiders the analysis he presented of the rise and decline of British economic power in Reflections on Geography, Technology and the Flux of Opportunity: Reassessing the Rise and Decline of British Economic Power, arguing for six insights British history in this...

This note, acknowledging the ambiguities in the discussion of deindustrialization due to the scarcity of data on countries' real manufacturing output over time, considers Britain's output between the 1970s and the present as calculated in 2015 U.S. dollars both through the use of deflators to...

This working paper considers the interaction of neoliberalism and neoconservatism with traditional conceptions of British national identity, in particular 1. Their reaffirmation of the vision Linda Colley described as an insular, imperial, naval, mercantile and Protestant power against a Europe...

This working paper considers the implications of the rhetoric of "Global Britain" in light of recent British defense reviews and other policy statements, with this rounded out by an examination of Britain's economic and military weight from the standpoint of the requirements of being a "global"...

The author of this working paper, acknowledging the limitations of the present literature on the "austerity" to which Britain was subject in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and its associated "Great Recession" in the 2010-2019 period; and the necessity of a more satisfactory,...