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Epilogue,itish foreign policy would have been changed much, if at all, had his career ended somewhat earlier than it did, or even, if he had not entered ’the career’ in the first place. And yet, in seeking to understand British foreign policy, the administrative edifices that sustained it, as well as the uns

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