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British foreign policy in the post-Cold war period accords neatly with an expanded, pluralistic agenda as British leaders have pursued “subjective preferences” formed “periodically both in response to the domestic political process itself and in response to shifts in the international environment”21. As McNair surmises, “[i]n one key sense, of course, international relations are a domestic matter, since a government’s conduct in this area can sharply affect its popularity with the voters... In the pursuit of a state’s international relations, a government has the opportunity to perform on the world stage, before a global audience of billions”22. Consequently, the frontiers between international and domestic affairs have become indistinguishable, but the misnomer ‘national interest’ persists as a hyperbolic tool intended to imbue prime ministerial goals with loftier values.
July 23, 2006 at 12:17 AM in Special Relationship | Permalink | Top of page | Blog Home