Diversifying diplomacy: UK strategy in a fragmenting world (opens in new tab)

Two assumptions have underpinned UK external policy for a generation. The first is that the US would remain the indispensable guarantor of an international security order broadly beneficial to UK interests. The second is that deep integration into global markets ensured UK prosperity and influence, with membership of the EU its central feature. These assumptions no longer hold. Weaponised interdependence has become the hallmark of 21st century statecraft, posing as yet unanswered questions fo...