An Independent Britain in an Interdependent World: Thinking the Unthinkable?

While the discussion is conducted in terms of Britain in the sense of the United Kingdom, it could easily be conceived in terms of a less than united Kingdom, such as a confederal collectivity of the political units of the British Isles.

For a discussion of this see Robert Boardman and A. J. R. Groom (eds)., The Management of Britain's External Relations (London : Macmillan, 1973), pp. 3-20.

For an analysis of this situation see A.J.R. Groom , Survival (November/December, 1980), pp. 264-266.

For a detailed discussion of the Commonwealth see A. J. R. Groom and Paul Taylor (eds.), The Commonwealth: An Unusual Interdependency (London: Macmillan, 1982).