The impact of foreign policy on local communities

This paper was commissioned as part of JRF’s programme on Globalisation, which explores and promotes awareness of the impacts of globalisation on the UK and focuses on communities and people in poverty.

This paper:

• explains how the nature of UK foreign policy has changed;
• demonstrates how local authorities and local communities have built their own international links; and
• discusses how globalisation has brought local communities into contact with UK foreign policy and how it affects them.