Making foreign policy matter From: RUSI Journal | Date: June 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies Jun 2000. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

In life nothing matters very much and most things don't matter at all'. That mantra used to be recited by a former Foreign Office Minister to help him keep his sense of perspective in international crises. I am sure he believed that foreign policy did matter. That wasn't true of another former colleague in the Foreign Office who resigned to become a member of Parliament and for a time, a Junior Minister and who became disillusioned with Government, Parliament and a lot of other things. I spoke to him when I was Permanent Under Secretary hoping for a bit of help with foreign policy, but his ...

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