By P. Williams
This crucial new research presents a serious research of the overseas guidelines performed through the first phrases of Tony Blair's executive. It focuses upon the government's key international coverage commitments; 3 of its most crucial overseas relationships (with the united states, the ecu Union, and Africa); and the way Blair's executive handled 5 primary coverage concerns (political financial system, defence, overseas improvement, intervention, and Iraq). It argues that all through this era Labour's overseas rules tried to paper over a few vital contradictions.
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Indeed, individual ministers regularly altered their interpretation of this slippery concept to suit their target audiences. That said, globalisation was most commonly conceived in broadly liberal terms as consisting of both the spread of liberal Understanding Labour’s Foreign Policy 27 political and economic values and the intensification of linkages between the world’s actors to create a situation of interdependence where (economic, political and sometimes moral) shocks in one part of the world stimulated ripple effects that crossed political borders.
56 Similarly, by drawing attention to the ethical foundations of foreign policy, Labour’s moralism was largely responsible for reinvigorating debates about the UK’s role in world politics. Cook’s memorable phrase released a cosmopolitan genie from the official UK foreign policy bottle and no matter how hard subsequent foreign secretaries may try they are unlikely to succeed in putting it back. That Blair’s government fell short of its more grandiose statements of intent does not negate the fact that it provided friends and foes alike with an important yardstick by which to evaluate its foreign policy record.
In large part, this was based on the liberal self-images held by both states. It also played an important role in justifying the use of military force since 1997 (see Chapter 8). Nevertheless, moralism came to play an even more prominent role after 9/11 with the themes of ‘good versus evil’, ‘chaos versus stability’ and ‘barbarism versus civilization’ peppering the speeches of UK and US officials alike. Neoliberal ideas about political economy were also central to the US–UK relationship. 8 In relation to multilateralism, an emphasis was placed upon the construction of ad hoc coalitions at the expense of more established institutions.
