British Foreign Policy Under New Labour, 1997–2005

✍ Scribed by Paul D. Williams (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 271
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This important new study provides a critical analysis of the foreign policies conducted during the first two terms of Tony Blair's government. It focuses upon the government's key foreign policy commitments; three of its most important international relationships (with the US, the European Union, and Africa); and how Blair's government dealt with five fundamental policy issues (political economy, defence, international development, intervention, and Iraq). It argues that throughout this period Labour's foreign policies attempted to paper over some important contradictions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Understanding Labour’s Foreign Policy....Pages 15-31
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
The Closest Ally....Pages 35-55
Living in (and with) Europe....Pages 56-74
Healing a Scar on the World’s Conscience?....Pages 75-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Navigating in the Global Economy....Pages 99-119
Defending the Realm … and the Defence Industry....Pages 120-140
The Right (and Prudent) Thing To Do....Pages 141-163
Other People’s Wars....Pages 164-184
Iraq and Labour’s Moment in the Middle East....Pages 185-206
Conclusions....Pages 207-212
Back Matter....Pages 213-263

✦ Subjects

British Politics; Political Science; Diplomacy; Popular Science, general; Foreign Policy