Robert Self 
British Foreign and Defence Policy Since 1945 [PDF ebook] 
Challenges and Dilemmas in a Changing World

Foreign policy has dominated successive governments’ time in office and cast a consistently long shadow over British politics in the period since 1945. Robert Self provides a readable and incisive assessment of the key issues and events from the retreat from empire through the cold war period to Humanitarian Intervention and the debacle in Iraq.