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"This is the first book to examine Britain's geopolitical identity and how it is expressed in foreign policy discourse. It demonstrates how British imperial thought, related to its island status, has remained important for British Members of Parliament in their debates of contemporary issues. It presents an exciting and provocative new reading of modern British foreign policy that decentres traditional notions of rationalism and pragmatism by foregrounding the much-neglected aspects of identity and geopolitical space. As British foreign policy-makers wrestle with how to define Britishness outside of the EU, this analysis provides a fresh perspective. It presents a much-needed historical contextualisation of long-standing concepts such as insularity from Europe and a universal aspect on world affairs. This book will be highly relevant for students, researchers and professionals that are seeking to understand British foreign policy. It will be of interest to those researching and working within geopolitics, identity, sociology, foreign policy analysis and international relations"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction to the Island Race: Geopolitics and identity in British foreign policy -- 2. Understanding foreign policy, geopolitics and identity -- 3. A North Atlantic heritage and a Middle Eastern crisis: Island Race identity from the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty to the Suez Crisis -- 4. The insularity/universalism conundrum: The Island Race and European integration, 1960-3 -- 5. From the heartlands of Eurasia to the South Atlantic: Thatcher and the reinvigoration of Island Race identity -- 6. International communities and island stories: Geopolitics, globalisation and ontological security, 1997-2015 -- 7. Whose Island Story?: Brexit, Global Britain and the geopolitics of belonging -- 8. Conclusion -- Index.

Introduction -- Bridging the gaps between jurisdictions : analysing legal transplant theory as a means of legal reform -- The Aarhus convention : the global standard for the right of access to environmental information? -- The environmental information regime in England -- The right of access to environmental information in the United States -- East meets West : the right of access to environmental information in China -- The future development of the right of access to environmental information : applying legal transplant theory to England, the US and China -- Conclusions, key findings and future directions.

In Thailand, infertility remains a source of stigma for those couples that combine a range of religious, traditional and high-tech interventions in their quest for a child. This book explores this experience of infertility and the pursuit and use of assisted reproductive technologies by Thai couples. Though using assisted reproductive technologies is becoming more acceptable in Thai society, access to and choices about such technologies are mediated by differences in class position. These stories of women and men in private and public infertility clinics reveal how local social and moral sensitivities influence the practices and meanings of treatment