In the context of the UK's withdrawal from the European Union, this special issue examines a series of diplomatic departures - breaks in diplomatic relations, sudden or radical changes in international or regional policies, relations with dissidents - to shed light on how the interests, means and actors of British international relations were redefined in those moments, and to assess the factors behind the success, or failure, of British influence during ruptures in diplomatic routine. Contributors interrogate the place of the United Kingdom in a world of networks, from the interwar years to the contemporary period, between the (post-) Cold War and the long ends of empire, from Asia to the Pacific and Africa, thereby reflecting on the plurality and evolutions of interpretations of "Europe" as a concept and as a space.
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