Gladstone's First Ministry: Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy is how your country deals with the problems outisde/in different countries. 

Gladstone's priciples:

• To foster the strength of the empire by maintaining not expanding it
• To aim for peace and avoid conflict- Retrenchment & Moral views
• To cultivate and maintain the Concert of Europe
• To acknowledge equal rights of all nations (moral)
• That British foreign policy should always be inspired by a love of freedom 

Main Foriegn Policy Incidents 1868-74

1. The Franco-Prussian War (1870-71)                                                                                     When war broke out between France and Prussia, Britain decided to remain neutral as…