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Global Britain in a competitive age : strategy of the Integrated Review

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Date
22/06/2021
Author
Strachan, Hew
Keywords
Strategy
Foreign policy
Defence policy
Integrated operations
Deterrence
Resilience
JZ International relations
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Abstract
Since 2010, the UK government has conducted a strategic review at five-yearly intervals, a pattern which it has maintained, at least formally, despite the strategically destabilising effects of Brexit and the Trump administration. Accordingly, on 26 February 2020 the Prime Minister announced the next iteration, albeit one which would he maintained go ‘beyond the parameters of a traditional review’. COVID-19 understandably delayed the publication of the Integrated Review until March 2021. This article examines the results, using the prism of strategy to examine the review’s coherence. Global Britain in a Competitive Age is as aspirational as its original ambition suggested it should be, but is light on specific policies and their delivery. The accompanying publications from the Ministry of Defence contain more substance, but their implications are not sufficiently aligned with either foreign policy or the possible eventuality of armed conflict, nor do they allow for capabilities commensurate with the scale of the task which ‘Global Britain’ anticipates.
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Strachan , H 2021 , ' Global Britain in a competitive age : strategy of the Integrated Review ' , Journal of the British Academy , vol. 9 , pp. 161-177 . https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/009.161
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Journal of the British Academy
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/009.161
ISSN
2052-7217
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © The author(s) 2021. This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Unported License.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/23415

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