2016年6月21日 · Britain’s referendum on the EU marks another step in the country’s long and troubled history with its European neighbours. Divorce or not, Europe will continue to have a …

2019年4月11日 · After the Reformation, Britain — as the country became known in 1707 with the parliamentary unification of England, Wales and Scotland — couldn’t just ignore its European neighbors.

2016年6月21日 · Britain’s referendum on the EU marks another step in the country’s long and troubled history with its European neighbours. Divorce or not, Europe will continue to have a huge influence over British politics and society – history has a few lessons for us here.

2024年6月5日 · From 1815 to 1914, the British grand strategy was to prevent any single European power from becoming dominant. During the “Pax Britannica” (British Peace) which lasted between 1815 and 1914, the primary strategic goal of the British Empire was to maintain a stable balance of power on the European Continent.

Britain established an informal economic network that, combined with its colonies and its Royal Navy, made it the hegemonic nation until its power was challenged by the united Germany. It was a largely peaceful century, with no wars between the great powers, apart from the 1853–1871 interval, and some wars between Russia and the Ottoman Empire.

This essay argues that Britain was generally a conservative force in European diplomacy even while regarding itself as a more liberal polity than any of the other states. It did not want war, as it sought no continental territory and benefited enormously from peace and commercial growth.

Pax Britannica (Latin for “British Peace,” modeled after Pax Romana) was the period of relative peace in Europe (1815–1914) during which the British Empire became the global hegemonic power and adopted the role of a global police force.

2014年4月1日 · As an empire builder and major trading power it was inevitable that Britain would come into conflict with rivals vying for the same territories and trade routes. And allegiances shifted. All of...

2016年6月22日 · Europe made the UK. The emergence first of England as a nation state was the product of European pressures—to defend itself against Viking raids. So was the formation of the United Kingdom,...

The European Union’s most ambitious enlargement ever took place on a sunny May Day in 2004. Ten new member states joined - eight of them former communist countries in eastern and central Europe.