Nepal, Jan. 9 -- A chaotic Brexit could do great damage to ordinary people, but those ordinary people will be overwhelmingly British. The days when Britain could move the world are long gone

WASHINGTON, DC - The contours of the nineteenth and early twentieth century were defined in part by a series of consequential British foreign policy and economic decisions. As recently as 2007-2009, British policy affected global outcomes: whereas deregulation of the City of London contributed to the severity of the global financial crisis, British leadership at the London G20 summit in April 2009 ultimately proved a stabilizing influence. Today, however, despite all the political theater and dramatic rhetoric, Britain's impending exit from the Europ...