The political role of Great Britain in modern world

school 5The political role of Great Britain inmodern world by Timur Saatashvili, 11 A gradeEnglish teacher Altynova Galina AnatolyevnaRyazan, 2001The political role of Great Britain inmodern world.Analyzingthe current world political situation I wonder why since the beginning of thetwentieth century Great Britain, a colonial empire in the past, been losing itsinfluence in the world step by step and nowadays it is worth speaking not aboutthe British political but merely about holding its own current stand? Whydoesn t it want Europe to be united and independent of the US? This problembecomes more urgent nowadays when the American influence s weakening and thepolitical opponent which prevents us from being a full member of the Europeansociety.

The U.K. takes part in all international committees in Chechnya. Itsterritory is used by lots of anti Russian Wakhabbist organizations thatprovides Chechen terrorists and separatists.Its subversive activities have theonly aim to isolate Russia.

And I couldn t help taking such a theme where Iwill analyze the British policy, explain it and try to find alternatives forthe English foreign political line. Afterthe Second World War England lost its political independence, becoming anAmerican satellite.Formingthe Anglo American alliance was especially influenced by the so calledAmericanocentrist conceptions by Zbignev Bzhezinski and Nicholas Spikesman.Accordingto Spikesman s theory, the geographical authority of any state takes shape bynot its inland territories, but coastline.

He emphasizes three large centers ofworld power the Atlantic Seashore of North America and Europe and the Far Eastof Eurasia. These territories were called a rimland.This way Great Britain andthe US must from an alliance and that was done soon. Beingan American ally, England has become a reliable Fifth Column in the EuropeanUnion. The British government has been trying its best to prevent Europe fromunifying processes, once protesting against founding European Central Bank andthe singe European currency euro and attempting together with the US toquarrel the European states with one another and to direct their aggressionagainst the third one like Yugoslavia.

Due to its pro American foreignpolicy, Great Britain has become the second leader of the North Atlantic TreatyOrganization. right now the U.K. and the US are at the head of all NATO smilitary 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 aggressionin 1999. Speaking about the NATO s last campaign, the U.K. and the USdestabilized an ethnic situation in Europe, because during the NATO sbombardments tens and thousands of thousands of Albanian refugees poured intoGermany, Albania and some other countries. That needs no saying, the Albaniansfrom Kosovo and Methokia complicated the social political situation in thesestates.

Its result was the criminal increase and the growth of unemploymentamong the immigrants.Thisway 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 andGermany as much as possible.

As froGermany, being a powerful state, it is spreading its economic influence inChechia, Slovakia and especially in Chernogoria where President MiloDzuganovich put DM in circulation instead of the Yugoslavian dinar.Ofcourse, it has weakened the British authority in the Balkan region very much,and the English government cannot ignore it. Unfortunately, the U.K. sforgotten 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 ofliquidating Russian landing troops in 1999 after having occupied Slatinoairport in Prishtina.To my mind it is clear what consequences would have takenplace after that.Butwhy is the British foreign policy so anti German Russian? The work TheGeographical Axis of History by English scientist Halfrod McKinder answers it.According to his theory the alliance of Russia and Germany to struggle for theworld power against Great Britain and the US is extremely dangerous and fatalfor the last ones. Well now it is clear why the buffer of averagly developedcountries between Russia and Germany was formed and what Truman s doctrine wasbased on.Thusnowadays the Anglo American alliance has achieved its aim, dividing ourstates and making our relations rather difficult and cool.Followingthe American foreign political way, England must carry the mutal responsibilityfor their blunders.

The same situation is taking place in Kosovo and Metkhianow.

Due to the Anglo American pro Albanian and anti Serbian policy theUCK becomes more and more impudent, firing gat the KFOR s patrols, occupyingMacedonian territory and assaulting tetovo while the NATO s doing nothing toprotect Kosovo and Macedonia and to defeat the UCK because of being only veryanxious for its soldiers and nothing more. This way, after the Anglo Americancarrions crows triumphant air raids to Serbia the NATO cannot cope with asmall group of the UCK s thugs or does not want to do it and has to allow theFederal troops of Yugoslavia to patrol Kosovo s part of Yugoslavian Macedonian boundaries near Preshevo.

Such an embarrassing and foolishsituation, of course, has damaged the British authority in the world.

Theprospects of the British co operation with other states. As a matterof fact there are only two alternatives of the British foreign politicaldevelopment. The first one is changing nothing but England should know nowadaysmost political analysists agree thatsoon playing the role of a sort of a oikumena, the US will exert itself to theutmost.The American industry and production cannot compete with the Europeanones not only in the world but even in its domestic American market.

It is thebeginning of the political and economic degradation of the USA without whichthe U.K. means nothing. And it is out of question, no European state will wantto deal with the former American satellite. The British future is awful, Ithink.Butthere is the second way a very close both political and economic co operation with the Eurounion.Well, and what would Great Britain be able topropose? firstly, the reorganization of the NATO s troops into the Eurounion sones, liquidation of the American military bases in Europe secondly,substituting dollars for euros in golden currency reserves of the Europeanstates.

Butwhat way will Great Britain prefer? Time will show.Well,you see I have proved my hypothesis.In my work I have come to the followingconclusion 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 Europeanstates 3. The British government must change its foreign policyas quickly as it is possible.Thelist 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.Thisway I have put forward the following hypothesis the political authority ofGreat Britain is nominal nowadays.Toprove it I have used the following methods of getting the material Case Study Adapting Analysis Making Conclusions Making Comparisons and Analogies.