school # 5
The political role of Great Britain in
modern world
by Timur Saatashvili, 11
“A” grade
English teacher:
Altynova Galina Anatolyevna
Ryazan, 2001
The political role of Great Britain in
modern world.
Analyzing
the current world political situation I wonder why since the beginning of the
twentieth century Great Britain, a colonial empire in the past, been losing its
influence in the world step by step and nowadays it is worth speaking not about
the British political but merely about holding its own current stand? Why
doesn’t it want Europe to be united and independent of the US? This problem
becomes more urgent nowadays when the American influence’s weakening and the
political opponent which prevents us from being a full member of the European
society. The U.K. takes part in all international committees in Chechnya. Its
territory is used by lots of anti – Russian Wakhabbist organizations that
provides Chechen terrorists and separatists. Its subversive activities have the
only aim to isolate Russia. And I couldn’t help taking such a theme where I
will analyze the British policy, explain it and try to find alternatives for
the English foreign political line.
After the Second World
War England lost its political independence, becoming an American satellite.
Forming the Anglo –
American alliance was especially influenced by the so – called
Americanocentrist conceptions by Zbignev Bzhezinski and Nicholas Spikesman.
According to
Spikesman’s theory, the geographical authority of any state takes shape by not
its inland territories, but coastline. He emphasizes three large centers of
world power: the Atlantic Seashore of North America and Europe and the Far East
of Eurasia. These territories were called a rimland. This way Great Britain and
the US must from an alliance and that was done soon.
Being an American
ally, England has become a reliable Fifth Column in the European Union. The
British government has been trying its best to prevent Europe from unifying
processes, once protesting against founding European Central Bank and the singe
European currency “euro” and attempting together with the US to quarrel the
European states with one another and to direct their aggression against the
third one like Yugoslavia. Due to its pro – American foreign policy, Great
Britain has become the second leader of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
right now the U.K. and the US are at the head of all NATO’s military
operations, like “The Shield of the desert”, “The Storm in the desert”, in
1991, “The Fox in the desert” in 1998 and the anti – Yugoslavian aggression in
1999. Speaking about the NATO’s last campaign, the U.K. and the US destabilized
an ethnic situation in Europe, because during the NATO’s bombardments tens and
thousands of thousands of Albanian refugees poured into Germany, Albania and
some other countries. That needs no saying, the Albanians from Kosovo and
Methokia complicated the social – political situation in these states. Its
result was the criminal increase and the growth of unemployment among the
immigrants.
This way we can make
the only confusion: the foreign policy of Great Britain (i.e. the US) in Europe
has the aim to weaken the main integrating power – Russia and Germany as much
as possible.
As fro Germany, being
a powerful state, it is spreading its economic influence in Chechia, Slovakia
and especially in Chernogoria where President Milo Dzuganovich put DM in
circulation instead of the Yugoslavian dinar.
Of course, it has
weakened the British authority in the Balkan region very much, and the English
government cannot ignore it. Unfortunately, the U.K.‘s forgotten it’s not a
world power. That is why its actions against every anti – British demarche of
European countries are extremely hasty and asymmetrical. Remember Prime –
Minister of Great Britain Anthony Blair’s intention of liquidating Russian
landing troops in 1999 after having occupied Slatino airport in Prishtina. To
my mind it is clear what consequences would have taken place after that.
But why is the British
foreign policy so anti – German – Russian? The work “The Geographical Axis of
History” by English scientist Halfrod McKinder answers it. According to his
theory the alliance of Russia and Germany to struggle for the world power
against Great Britain and the US is extremely dangerous and fatal for the last
ones. Well now it is clear why the buffer of averagly developed countries
between Russia and Germany was formed and what “Truman’s doctrine” was based
on.
Thus nowadays the
Anglo – American alliance has achieved its aim, dividing our states and making
our relations rather difficult and cool.
Following the American
foreign political way, England must carry the mutal responsibility for their
blunders. The same situation is taking place in Kosovo and Metkhia now. Due to
the Anglo – American pro – Albanian and anti – Serbian policy the UCK becomes
more and more impudent, firing gat the KFOR’s patrols, occupying Macedonian
territory and assaulting tetovo while the NATO’s doing nothing to protect Kosovo
and Macedonia and to defeat the UCK because of being only very anxious for its
soldiers and nothing more. This way, after the Anglo – American carrions crows’
triumphant air raids to Serbia the NATO cannot cope with a small group of the
UCK’s thugs (or does not want to do it) and has to allow the Federal troops of
Yugoslavia to patrol Kosovo’s part of Yugoslavian – Macedonian boundaries near
Preshevo. Such an embarrassing and foolish situation, of course, has damaged
the British authority in the world.
The prospects of
the British co – operation with other states.
As a matter
of fact there are only two alternatives of the British foreign political
development. The first one is changing nothing but England should know nowadays
most political analysists agree that soon playing the role of a sort of a
oikumena, the US will exert itself to the utmost. The American industry and
production cannot compete with the European ones not only in the world but even
in its domestic American market. It is the beginning of the political and
economic degradation of the USA without which the U.K. means nothing. And it is
out of question, no European state will want to deal with the former American
satellite. The British future is awful, I think.
But there is the
second way: a very close both political and economic co – operation with the
Eurounion. Well, and what would Great Britain be able to propose? firstly, the
reorganization of the NATO’s troops into the Eurounion’s ones, liquidation of
the American military bases in Europe; secondly, substituting dollars for
“euros” in golden currency reserves of the European states.
But what way will
Great Britain prefer? Time will show.
Well, you see I have
proved my hypothesis. In my work I have come to the following conclusion unconsoling
for Great Britain:
1.
It
does not run its own independent foreign policy, being the US’s puppet;
2.
Its
pro – American position antagonizes other European states;
3.
The
British government must change its foreign policy as quickly as it is possible.
The list of used
literature.
1.
Encyclopedia
for Children “Avanta +”, volume # 12 “Russia”, p. 640 – 642.
2.
Encyclopedia
for Children “Avanta +”, volume # 1 “World History”, p. 610 – 613, 657 – 658.
3.
Encyclopedia
for Children “Avanta +”, volume # 13 “States, Peoples, Civilizations”, p. 129,
246, 272, 276, 367, 369.
4.
“Politicians
and Rulers”. T. Varlamova, p. 506.
5.
“Russia:
the 20-th century. Politics and Culture”. N. Starikov, p. 410.
6.
“The
Geographical Axis of History”. H. McKinder.
7.
“The
Politology”. M. Marchenko, p. 375.
This way I have put
forward the following hypothesis: the political authority of Great Britain is
nominal nowadays.
To prove it I have
used the following methods of getting the material:
Ø Case Study
Ø Adapting
Ø Analysis
Ø Making Conclusions
Ø Making Comparisons and
Analogies.
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