By P. Williams
This vital new learn presents a severe research of the international guidelines performed in the course of the first phrases of Tony Blair's executive. It focuses upon the government's key international coverage commitments; 3 of its most crucial foreign relationships (with the USA, the ecu Union, and Africa); and the way Blair's govt handled 5 primary coverage concerns (political economic climate, defence, foreign improvement, intervention, and Iraq). It argues that all through this era Labour's international guidelines tried to paper over a few very important contradictions.
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In many respects, this chapter represents an investigation into the form of Labour’s Atlanticism. Moralism was also a constant theme of the relationship. 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.
Tensions also frequently arose over the Labour party’s stance on nuclear weapons, especially its flirtations with unilateralism. Finally, Labour’s economic policies historically stood in stark contrast to the US free-market model of capitalism. 13 At times, these sources of tension resulted in US administrations openly supporting the Conservative party, as happened in 1962 and 1987. On each occasion Washington invoked the ‘spectre’ of a Labour government to justify its policy decisions, as President Kennedy did at the 1962 Nassau conference over the issue of whether to sell the Polaris nuclear system to the UK as a replacement for its Skybolt missiles.
The fifth aspect was anti-militarism. This manifested itself in various periods as the pursuit of collective security, arms control and disarmament, regulation of the arms trade, and a suspicion of the use of military force as an instrument of foreign policy. Finally, Labour’s socialist ideology prompted a belief in solidarity between the workers of the world. In practice, such sentiments were never strong enough to withstand the pull of nationalism or British 24 British Foreign Policy under New Labour imperialism.
