Between Tradition and Modernity? Britain's Foreign Policy in the Second Half of the 1960s

Abstract

The paper analyses the strategic reorientation of British foreign policy during the first premiership of Harold Wilson in connection with the three fundamental decisions of the period - the second application for EC membership, 1967 devaluation of the Pound and military withdrawal from East of Suez.

Keywords

• British foreign policy
• Harold Wilson
• 1960s
• EC membership application
• devaluation
• East of Suez
• withdrawal
• tradition