Description
This panel seeks to demonstrate the value of a historical approach to analysing foreign policy. The papers each examine a historical case study from the UK and apply it to a contemporary dilemma of world politics. The resulting panel looks to both historicise prior British foreign policy and explore how previous diplomats and policymakers addressed the respective dilemmas, as well as consider the potential for, and limits of, drawing analogies from the past to understand the present. As such, it has implications for FPA and IR methods, as well as British foreign policy studies. The panellists range from junior to senior colleagues. All are or will be BISA members should the panel be accepted.
