A major review of New Labour's foreign policy from leading experts. This book re-imagines policy thinking, away from Churchill's idea of Britain as at the intersection of 'three circles' (the English speaking world, Europe, and the Commonwealth) and towards a new conceptual model that takes into acc
British Foreign Policy: The New Labour Years
✍ Scribed by Oliver Daddow, Jamie Gaskarth (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 292
- Category
- Library
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✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction: Blair, Brown and New Labour’s Foreign Policy, 1997–2010....Pages 1-27
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
The New Labour Governments and Britain’s Role in the World....Pages 31-47
New Labour, Devolution and British Identity: The Foreign Policy Consequences....Pages 48-62
New Labour, Leadership, and Foreign Policy-making after 1997....Pages 63-83
Identity and New Labour’s Strategic Foreign Policy Thinking....Pages 84-99
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
From ‘Ethical Foreign Policy’ to National Security Strategy: Exporting Domestic Incoherence....Pages 103-122
A Difficult Relationship: Britain’s ‘Doctrine of International Community’ and America’s ‘War on Terror’....Pages 123-138
New Labour and Nuclear Weapons....Pages 139-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Still ‘Leading from the Edge’? New Labour and the European Union....Pages 157-169
Britain’s Relations with China Under New Labour: Engagement and Repulsion?....Pages 170-187
From Asset to Liability: Blair, Brown and the ‘Special Relationship’....Pages 188-204
New Labour, Defence and the ‘War on Terror’....Pages 205-220
Conclusion....Pages 221-235
Back Matter....Pages 236-280
✦ Subjects
International Relations;British Politics;Political History;Political Science;Public Policy;US Politics
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