British Foreign Policy: The New Labour Years

✍ Scribed by Oliver Daddow and Jamie Gaskarth (Editors)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 299
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 account identity, ethics and power.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figure and Tables......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Foreword......Page 13
List of Abbreviations......Page 17
1 Introduction: Blair, Brown and New Labour’s Foreign Policy, 1997–2010......Page 20
Part I: Identity......Page 48
2 The New Labour Governments and Britain’s Role in the World......Page 50
3 New Labour, Devolution and British Identity: The Foreign Policy Consequences......Page 67
4 New Labour, Leadership, and Foreign Policy-making after 1997......Page 82
5 Identity and New Labour’s Strategic Foreign Policy Thinking......Page 103
Part II: Ethics......Page 120
6 From ‘Ethical Foreign Policy’ to National Security Strategy: Exporting Domestic Incoherence......Page 122
7 A Difficult Relationship: Britain’s ‘Doctrine of International Community’ and America’s ‘War on Terror’......Page 142
8 New Labour and Nuclear Weapons......Page 158
Part III: Power......Page 174
9 Still ‘Leading from the Edge’? New Labour and the European Union......Page 176
10 Britain’s Relations with China Under New Labour: Engagement and Repulsion?......Page 189
11 From Asset to Liability: Blair, Brown and the ‘Special Relationship’......Page 207
12 New Labour, Defence and the ‘War on Terror’......Page 224
13 Conclusion......Page 240
Bibliography......Page 255
Index......Page 282