Foreword. 1. The Problem 2. The External Environment 3. The Machinery 4. The Domestic Environment 5. Practice 6. Making British Foreign Policy. Bibliographical Note. Index.

How is foreign policy made? Who makes it? Does public opinion count at all? Originally published in 1968, this study represented the first attempt by a contemporary political scientist to pull together, in brief compass, all the relevant threads - including the constitutional, the political, the institutional and the sociological.