ABSTRACT
The Conclusion restates the book’s argument and findings, considering in sum how the tropes of Island Race identity have endured in British parliamentary discourse and reflecting on their future configurations. It explores the theoretical and practical implications of these findings, questioning poststructuralism’s tendency to highlight continuity over change and arguing that a more nuanced view of change within continuity is made possible by a genealogical approach. This highlights the domestic imperatives of foreign policy practice such as parliamentary debates and the inter- and intra-party struggles to define national identity according to the mediation of established tropes. This leads into considerations of potential future avenues of research opened up by the book.
