P. Williams 
British Foreign Policy Under New Labour, 1997–2005 

This important new study provides a critical analysis of the foreign policies conducted during the first two terms of Tony Blair’s government. It focuses upon the government’s key foreign policy commitments; three of its most important international relationships (with the US, the European Union, and Africa); and how Blair’s government dealt with five fundamental policy issues (political economy, defence, international development, intervention, and Iraq). It argues that throughout this period Labour’s foreign policies attempted to paper over some important contradictions.

Table of Content

List of Tables List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction PART 1: COMMITMENTS Understanding Labour’s Foreign Policy PART 2: RELATIONSHIPS The Closest Ally Living in (and with) Europe Healing a Scar on the World’s Conscience PART 3: ISSUES Navigating in the Global Economy Defending the Realm…and the Defence Industry? The Right (and Prudent) Thing To Do Other People’s Wars Iraq and Labour’s Moment in the Middle East Conclusions Notes Index

About the author

PAUL D. WILLIAMS is Senior Lecturer in Security Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. His main research interests are British foreign policy and international peacekeeping. He is co-author of
Understanding Peacekeeping and co-editor of
Africa in International Politics and
Peace Operations and Global Order.