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Unit8 British Foreign Relations Contents Part I Britain Then and NOW 1.Question:On the postwar world, Britain is puissant(强有力的，有势力的，有权力的） Answers: ①.The UK won in the fight with the Axis powers(轴心国）. ②.Some former colonies looked to Britain as the centre of their political and culture world and assisted loyally in British efforts to defeat Hitlers army.(前殖民地仍把英国视为其政治和文化中心，并且忠诚地帮助英国打败了希特勒的军队。） ③.Its largest military power in the western Europe. ④.Although British was awarded a seat on the UN Security Council for admitting its continuing importance to world politics, “great powers” of Soviet Union, the United States, China and France were given seats too. 2.superpower The Soviet Union and the United States became new “superpower” because of their military superiority. 3.The end of imperialism: ①The British had paid a terrible price for the economic destruction, it cannot afford to maintain its empire. ②The British realized that countries should de granted the independence. ③People and territory should not just be treat as a source of economic resources for the ruling centers of commerce in Europe. 4.What quickened the end of British empire? ①Many countries were granted independence, sometimes the process of independence is violent. ②Now, British is no longer a rules a vast overseas empire, but participates as an equal member in the EU. ③Its economy ranks about sixth in the world. ④But dont forget: Its influence on the international economy and its nuclear deterrent. Part Ⅱ The foundation of Britains foreign policy The factors which influence British policy-makers: 1.Its imperial history (帝国史) ①. build the maintain its own independent nuclear weapons -capability to ensure it would remain superior to most other states in terms of military capability. ②.other signs of foreign policy conservatism lie in the continuing debate over how much national sovereignty Britain should relinquish to（把~~交给~~） the EU. 2