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Article: Making Foreign Policy: A Certain Idea of Britain.(Brief Article)
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- Contemporary Review
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- January 1, 2001
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Making Foreign Policy: A Certain Idea of Britain. John Coles. John Murray. [pound]17.99. 224 pages. ISBN 0-7195-6046-2. Mr Coles' career in the Foreign Office lasted for thirty-seven years and he retired as Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In this book he examines 'the process of making British foreign policy'. Much attention has been focused recently on the U.K.'s foreign policy, now that it is 'ethical'. How is foreign policy made, whether ethical or not? Who makes it and what considerations are taken into the calculations? The crux of Mr Coles' arguments comes in his fourth and fifth chapters in which he ...