British foreign policy : the New Labour years / edited by Oliver Daddow and Jamie Gaskarth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Daddow, Oliver J., 1974-

Gaskarth, Jamie, 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labour Party (Great Britain).

Great Britain--Foreign relations--1997-.

Great Britain.

International relations.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1997-2007.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xvii, 280 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

New Labour came to power in 1997 promising to modernize Britain and its role in the world. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown made ambitious pledges and launched bold policy initiatives. After thirteen years during which Britain became mired in divisive and costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. New labour's early promises came to resemble little more than the cynical political 'spin' of which the government was so often accused of producing. Criticized as a poodle to the US and a deeply divisive presence in the European Union, where did it go so badly wrong for New Labour's conduct of foreign policy? This book provides a fresh and challenging perspective on British foreign policy during the New Labour years, 1997-2010. The collection is themed around the development of a brand new model of British foreign policy in three interlocking circles: Identity, Ethics and Power. The contributors are as one in arguing that the conceptual basis of British foreign policy action needs a more radical overhaul than New Labour either promised or provided. Book jacket.

Contents:

Foreword / Stephen Wall

Introduction : Blair, Brown and New Labour's foreign policy, 1997-2010 / Jamie Gaskarth and Oliver Daddow

The New Labour governments and Britain's role in the world / David McCourt

New Labour, devolution and British identity : the foreign policy consequences / Pauline Schnapper

New Labour, leadership, and foreign policy-making after 1997 / Stephen Dyson

Identity and New Labour's strategic foreign policy thinking / Jamie Gaskarth

From "ethical foreign policy" to national security strategy : exporting domestic incoherence / Tara McCormack

A difficult relationship : Britain's "doctrine of international community" and America's "war on terror" / Jason Ralph

New Labour and nuclear weapons / David Allen

Still "leading from the edge"? : New Labour and the European Union / Patrick Holden

Britain's relations with China under New Labour : engagement and repulsion? / Kerry Brown

From asset to liability : Blair, Brown and the "special relationship" / Mark Phythian

New Labour, defence and the "war on terror" / Max Taylor

Conclusion / Oliver Daddow.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780230280427

0230280420

OCLC:

704120939