ABSTRACT
It has been said of the period after the Second World War that Great Britain had lost an Empire and was in search of a new role in the international system.1 During the Cold War, Britain managed to maintain a role as one the world’s major Powers through its special relationship with the United States that provided access to a formidable nuclear deterrent and as one of the two leading European North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Powers with troops deployed in Germany and one of the four Powers that controlled the city of Berlin.2
