UK Foreign Policy: Choices and Challenges After Brexit

As the UK prepares to leave the European Union, it faces important questions about its place in the world. Brexit creates the opportunity for a fundamental reassessment of the UK’s international role: a chance to examine the priorities which should guide policymakers, the capabilities the UK needs to meet its international ambitions and the compromises that this could involve. This comes at a time when the domestic politics of foreign policy in the UK is shifting and when the global context – from an increasingly unilateral America, a still rising China, a distracted European Union and an ongoing technological revolution - poses new challenges for all states. The session will address the following questions:

• Does Brexit represent a fundamental realignment or an adjustment that will see more continuity than change?
• To what extent should Brexit lead to a reassessment of assumptions that have guided UK foreign policy since the end of the Cold War?
• In what ways should the current shifts in global politics reshape the UK’s approach?
• Should the UK have a global focus or a more regional one? Could the UK create new networks of partners to pursue its interests internationally?
• Can the UK strengthen the tools and levers at its disposal?

Attendance at this event is by invitation only.

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