Before World War I, most foreign investment in Latin America came from Britain. By World War II, however, the United States had become the main and unchallenged foreign investor in the region. This analysis of the negotiations that took place between the British firm (Pearson and Son) and the Colombian government over oil contracts reveals the reasons for the shift in influence. The company's lack of awareness that Britain had been overtaken by the United States as the hegemonic power in the hemisphere eventually caused the negotiations to collapse. While talks were proceeding, the company failed to consider how much influence the United States had on Colombian internal politics, and it overlooked the history of U.S.-Colombia relations. As a result, Pearson never received oil concession...
As with the current issue over Iraq, UK's Tony Blair is eager to accomodate Washington DC on almost every issue, but he also is more pro-Israel than any of his predecessors. Even so, UK has firmly upheld the applicability of UN resolutions on the territories. Now, Margaret Beckett, the new British foreign secretary, has gone a step further away from former principles. Beckett is reluctant to see unilateral action by the Israeli government, a significant backing away from previous British adherence to UN decisions.
The EU last year slashed the prices of imported sugar from the 78-nation Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of countries by 36 percent starting this year, causing consternation among sugar producers, angry about the lack of proper compensation for the price reductions. The Caribbean alone says it stands to lose US$100M in revenues annually, while the wider ACP group of former European colonies say the $47M in compensation offered to 18 ACP sugar exporters is an insult and should be withdrawn. The meeting is also coming at a time when Caribbean political analysts say Britain has been slowly turning its back on the region, favoring Africa despite a traditional close relationship with the Caribbean based on everything from cricket to tourism to the arts. British Caribbean expert Dav...
BOURNEMOUTH, England - Britain's new foreign policy chief promised a shift in how the country approaches international relations Tuesday, citing humbling lessons of the Iraq war and signaling a fresh path from that of his graying predecessors. David Miliband, the first Cabinet minister to write an online blog and one of the youngest at 42, told the annual conference of his Labour Party that he wants to keep talking with adversaries such as Iran, to empathize with Muslims and to rid his department of its stodgy aura.
People shape their environment, but the environment also shapes people and societies. The relationship between land and sea casts a particular shadow, and Alfred Thayer Mahan opened his influential 1890 book "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History" by discussing the cultural, economic, and institutional factors that lay the foundation for naval supremacy. That Britain is an island, indeed the primary island of an archipelago off Europe, defines its history, and Mahan offered Britain as the paradigm for a maritime state. Sea power defined Britain's empire, differentiating it from such land empires as Rome or China and enabling it to reach far beyond its home islands.
LONDON (AP) - Prime Minister Tony Blair proposed strict anti- terror measures Friday that would allow Britain to expel foreigners who preach hatred, close extremist mosques and bar entry to Muslim radicals. "The rules of the game are changing" following last month's bomb attacks, he declared. The proposals, which also target extremist Web sites and bookshops, are aimed primarily at excluding radical Islamic clerics accused of whipping up hatred and violence among vulnerable, disenfranchised Muslim men.
LONDON - Moussa Koussa is the ultimate Libyan insider, a one- time intelligence chief and the keeper of Moammar Gadhafi's darkest secrets. Now that the ex-foreign minister has fled Tripoli and landed in Britain, Western diplomats and intelligence officials were pressing him Thursday for the details that could help oust Gadhafi from power.
KABUL, Afghanistan - A female British aid worker kidnapped during an ambush last month died during a rescue attempt by NATO forces in northeastern Afghanistan, Britain's foreign secretary said Saturday. The announcement came as four Italian troops were killed and one seriously wounded in an insurgent roadside bomb attack Saturday in the country's west.
In the space of a year, Abbas Araghchi went from the academic oasis of heading a Foreign Ministry-affiliated think tank in pastoral north Tehran to exchanging barbs with U.S. officials in a rare face-to-face meeting at the March 10 international conference in Baghdad. The presence of foreign forces cannot help the security of Iran in the long term," Mr. Araghchi, now deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, said after the meeting, calling for a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops and blaming Iraq's current state of affairs on American "intelligence failure.
LONDON - It's James Bond, with bureaucracy and cramped office space. The first-ever official history of MI6 reveals that Britain's foreign spy agency debated assassinating Nazi leaders, landed a spy wearing a wetsuit over his tux at a casino by the sea and experimented with exploding filing cabinets - but also wrangled with other government departments and had to make do on a shoestring budget.
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