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New Labour and the European Union: Blair and Brown´s Logic of History
Oliver Daddow
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Paperback. A study of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's failed attempt to sell the European ideal to the British people. Based on an exhaustive survey of New Labour's foreign policy speeches after 1997 and interviews with policy-makers involved in the formulation of New Labour's foreign policy. Num Pages: 304 pages, Tables, black & white|Line drawings, black & white|Halftones, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QFE; JPL. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 466.
This book explores Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's attempt to sell the European ideal to the British people. New Labour came to power in 1997 promising to modernize the country and make it fit for the twenty-first century. In foreign policy, Blair and Brown set about rethinking core components of the British national identity, especially the country's relationship to its past and its role in the world. Rebranding Britain, they argued, meant helping the British people feel comfortably at home in the European Union. What did New Labour achieve and did its European policy succeed? How did Blair and Brown ... Read more
This book explores Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's attempt to sell the European ideal to the British people. New Labour came to power in 1997 promising to modernize the country and make it fit for the twenty-first century. In foreign policy, Blair and Brown set about rethinking core components of the British national identity, especially the country's relationship to its past and its role in the world. Rebranding Britain, they argued, meant helping the British people feel comfortably at home in the European Union. What did New Labour achieve and did its European policy succeed? How did Blair and Brown ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
466g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719076411
SKU
V9780719076411
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About Oliver Daddow
Oliver Daddow is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Loughborough University -- .
Reviews for New Labour and the European Union: Blair and Brown´s Logic of History
Oliver Daddow has written an interesting, timely and innovative analysis of the nuances of the 'New Labour' approach towards what they had hoped would be a 'new Europe'.
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