The future of UK foreign policy: executive summary

Upon assuming power in May, the United Kingdom’s historic coalition government set in motion three exercises that collectively aimed to reshape British foreign policy. Taken together, the new National Security Strategy (NSS), the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) and the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), seek to lay down the bounds of Britain’s future role in the world, articulate Britain’s national interests, establish the goals of policy and set the means by which to achieve them.