№4-2022-11
DOI: 10.22281/2413-9912-2022-06-04-103-108
Petrosova T.G.
BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY STRATEGY IN THE FAR EARSTERN REGION
AT THE END OF THE 19th CENTURY, BEGINNING OF THE 20th CENTURY.
The article examines the British foreign policy strategy in the Far Eastern region in the late XIX – early XX centuries. In the second half of the XIX century, the final division of spheres of influence in the world took place. Despite this fact, a number of states sought to redistribute it, so it is not surprising that the Far East in these conditions aroused interest from the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, France and Germany, Japan. During the designated period, Great Britain tried to maintain its leadership position in the international arena in the changing geopolitical and economic conditions. The competition of the leading powers in the Far Eastern region was active. Gradually, against this background, Great Britain’s diplomacy is moving from a policy of «brilliant isolation» to a policy of concluding alliances with those powers whose interests are closest to the British. From the second half of the XIX century until the beginning of the XX century, Great Britain resisted Russia’s aggressive policy in Central Asia and the Far East and, based on this, built its relations with other states. Great Britain pursued its colonial policy very carefully, resorting to colonial seizures only when a violation of British interests was inevitable.
Keywords: the Far East, the big game, imperialism, British foreign policy, the policy of «brilliant isolation», the concept of «white man’s burden», colonialism, the Far Eastern question.
Academician I.G. Petrovskii Bryansk State University (Russia)
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