British Foreign Policy under New Labour

✍ Scribed by Paul D. Williams

• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 278
• 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

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 9
List of Abbreviations......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Introduction......Page 16
Part I Commitments......Page 28
1 Understanding Labour's Foreign Policy......Page 30
Part II Relationships......Page 48
2 The Closest Ally......Page 50
3 Living in (and with) Europe......Page 71
4 Healing a Scar on the World's Conscience?......Page 90
Part III Issues......Page 112
5 Navigating in the Global Economy......Page 114
6 Defending the Realm…and the Defence Industry......Page 135
7 The Right (and Prudent) Thing To Do......Page 156
8 Other People's Wars......Page 179
9 Iraq and Labour's Moment in the Middle East......Page 200
Conclusions......Page 222
Notes......Page 228
B......Page 268
C......Page 270
F......Page 271
I......Page 272
L......Page 273
N......Page 274
Q......Page 275
S......Page 276
U......Page 277
Z......Page 278