British Foreign Policy: The New Labour Years

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:
Foreword; S.Wall Introduction: Blair, Brown and New Labour's Foreign Policy, 1997-2010; J.Gaskarth & O.Daddow PART I: IDENTITY The New Labour Governments and Britain's Role in the World; D.McCourt New Labour, Devolution and British Identity: The Foreign Policy Consequences; P.Schnapper New Labour, Leadership, and Foreign Policy-making after 1997; S.Dyson Identity and New Labour's Strategic Foreign Policy Thinking; J.Gaskarth PART 2: ETHICS From 'Ethical Foreign Policy' to National Security Strategy: Exporting Domestic Incoherence; T.McCormack A Difficult Relationship: Britain's 'Doctrine of International Community and America's 'War on Terror'; J.Ralph New Labour and Nuclear Weapons; D.Allen PART 3: POWER Still 'leading from the edge'? New Labour and the European Union; P.Holden Britain's Relations with China Under New Labour: Engagement and Repulsion?; K.Brown From Asset to Liability: Blair, Brown and the 'Special Relationship; M.Phythian New Labour, Defence and the 'War on Terror'; M.Taylor Conclusion; O.Daddow

About the Author :
DAVID ALLEN Professor of European and International Politics in the Department of Politics, History and International Relations at Loughborough University, UK KERRY BROWN Senior Fellow, Asia Programme, Chatham House, UK STEPHEN DYSON Assistant Professor of Political Science, Wabash College, United States PATRICK HOLDEN Lecturer in International Relations, University of Plymouth, UK TARA MCCORMACK Lecturer in International Politics, University of Leicester, UK DAVID MCCOURT Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for British Studies, University of California-Berkeley, USA MARK PHYTHIAN Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations and Professor, University of Leicester, UK JASON RALPH Professor of International Relations at the University of Leeds, UK PAULINE SCHNAPPER Professeur de Civilisation Britannique Contemporaine, Université Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle, France MAX TAYLOR Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews, UK SIR STEPHEN WALL former Diplomat and Special Advisor to the United Kingdom Prime Minister, Tony Blair