British Foreign Policy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction: Blair, Brown and New Labour’s Foreign Policy, 1997–2010

   1. Introduction: Blair, Brown and New Labour’s Foreign Policy, 1997–2010

      • Oliver Daddow, Jamie Gaskarth

      Pages 1-27

3. Identity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. The New Labour Governments and Britain’s Role in the World

      • David McCourt

      Pages 31-47

   3. New Labour, Devolution and British Identity: The Foreign Policy Consequences

      • Pauline Schnapper

      Pages 48-62

   4. New Labour, Leadership, and Foreign Policy-making after 1997

      • Stephen Benedict Dyson

      Pages 63-83

   5. Identity and New Labour’s Strategic Foreign Policy Thinking

      • Jamie Gaskarth

      Pages 84-99

4. Ethics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. From ‘Ethical Foreign Policy’ to National Security Strategy: Exporting Domestic Incoherence

      • Tara McCormack

      Pages 103-122

   3. A Difficult Relationship: Britain’s ‘Doctrine of International Community’ and America’s ‘War on Terror’

      • Jason Ralph

      Pages 123-138

   4. New Labour and Nuclear Weapons

      • David Allen

      Pages 139-153

5. Power

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155

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   2. Still ‘Leading from the Edge’? New Labour and the European Union

      • Patrick Holden

      Pages 157-169

   3. Britain’s Relations with China Under New Labour: Engagement and Repulsion?

      • Kerry Brown

      Pages 170-187

   4. From Asset to Liability: Blair, Brown and the ‘Special Relationship’

      • Mark Phythian

      Pages 188-204

   5. New Labour, Defence and the ‘War on Terror’

      • Max Taylor

      Pages 205-220

   6. Conclusion

      • Oliver Daddow

      Pages 221-235

6. Back Matter

   Pages 236-280

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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.

• Europe
• European Union (EU)
• foreign policy
• Government
• Policy
• policy-making
• British Politics
• us politics

• Department of Politics, History and International Relations, Loughborough University, UK

  Oliver Daddow

• School of Management, University of Plymouth, UK

  Jamie Gaskarth

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

Policies and ethics