大学英语专业课程英美概况上册Unit 8 British Foreign Relations

• Dependencies (3): the Malvinas Islands (British known as the "Falkland Islands"), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Pitcairn Islands
• Crown Dependencies (3): Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of Man.
• Americas (8): Canada, Belize, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Grenada, the Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda.
• Asia (10): India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Singapore, Bangladesh, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Brunei, Democratic Yemen.
• (*Some former colonies—Australia and Canada— still looked to Britain as the center of their political and cultural world.)
population of about 458 million people, onequarter of the world's population ; 2) covered more than 13,000,000 square miles (33,670,000 km2): approximately a quarter of the Earth's total land area ; As a result, its political, linguistic and cultural legacy is widespread. 3) because its span across the globe ensured that the sun was always shining on at least one of its numerous territories.
How many colonies in the past?
• There are 56 countries and 2 regions under British rule
• Oceania 14: Australia, New Zealand, Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Nauru, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Papua New Guinea, Fiji , Barbados, Kiribati.
• Today the age of British imperialism is gone. But the British foreign policy is still influenced by Britain’s imperial past. (why?)
• because the UK had a strong military power and prestige, it had a big influence on the postwar international order.
Unit 8 British Foreign Relations
Britain Then and Now
Its Imperial Past
• Q: why was it often said the sun never sets on the British Empire“?
1) By 1922, the British Empire held sway over a
• Africa (21): South Africa, Nigeria, Cameroon, Lesotho, Botswana, Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Zambia, Uganda, Tonga and Seychelles, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Kenya, the Gambia.
• There are still 16 overseas possessions under the jurisdiction of the British:
• Overseas Territory (9): Anguilla, Bermuda, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, he stunned the game LVL Island, St. Helena and its subsidiary Island, Turks and Caicos Islands .
• Special possessions (1): Cyprus Sovereign Base Areas
Britain Then and Now
• After the WWBiblioteka BaiduI, the British empire began to decline as more and more former colonies declared their political independence.
• Europe (3): Ireland, Cyprus, Malta.
• 2 Regions: part of the United States (referring to New York and surrounding), Hong Kong, China.
How many today?