The Labour Party And Foreign Policy

Author : John Callaghan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134540167

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The Labour Party and Foreign Policy by John Callaghan Pdf

This book provides a penetrating new study of the Labour Party’s thinking on international relations, which probes the past, present and future of the party’s approach to the international stage. The foreign policy of the Labour Party is not only neglected in most histories of the party, it is also often considered in isolation from the party’s origins, evolution and major domestic preoccupations. Yet nothing has been more divisive and more controversial in Labour’s history than the party’s foreign and defence policies and their relationship to its domestic programme. Much more has turned on this than the generation of tempestuous conference debates. Labour’s credentials as a credible prospect for Governmental office were thought to depend on a responsible approach to foreign and defence policy. Its exclusion from office was often said to stem from a failure to meet this test, as in the 1950s. The composition of Labour Cabinets was powerfully influenced by foreign and defence considerations, as was the centralization of power and decision-making within Labour Governments. The domestic achievements and failures of these periods in office were inextricably connected to international questions. The Labour Party and Foreign Policy is recommended for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in British politics and European history.

Author : John Saville
Publisher : Verso
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0860914569

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The Politics of Continuity by John Saville Pdf

Drawing on substantial new research, Saville focuses on the role of Ernest Bevin and his differences with Clement Attlee, particularly with regard to the Middle East. Countering the widely held view that Bevin sought accommodation with the Soviet Union, he reveals Labour's Foreign Secretary as a fervent ideologue, wholly in agreement with the deep-seated anti-Sovietism of his permanent officials.

Author : James Ramsay MacDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:$B265725

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The Foreign Policy of the Labour Party by James Ramsay MacDonald Pdf

Author : Rhiannon Vickers
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0719067456

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The Labour Party and the World, Volume 1 by Rhiannon Vickers Pdf

Part of a set tracing the evolution of the Labour Party's foreign policy during the 20th century, this text assesses the development and evolution of Labour's world-view and follows its foreign policy during World War I, the Russian Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, World War II and the Cold War.

Author : Lucian Ashworth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857713612

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International Relations and the Labour Party by Lucian Ashworth Pdf

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS AN NJR AND BLURB SHOULD NOT BE USED IN ITS RAW FORM: From 1918 to 1945 the British Labour Party worked closely with some of the biggest names in international relations (IR) scholarship. Through such structures as the Advisory Committee on International Questions IR scholars were instrumental in the construction of Labour foreign policy, and the experience of working closely with Labour's leadership influenced the approach to IR taken by these scholars. One of the major effects of the collaboration of Labour with IR experts was a wealth of memoranda, reports and pamphlets written by IR scholars for the Party. This material, despite its relevance to the history of the discipline of IR, has received scant attention in modern IR scholarship. This study has three major goals. The first is to add to the literature on the study of Labour foreign policy by examining the crucial role played by IR theorists and writers. The Advisory Committee and its intellectual members did much to shape the foreign policy of the Party, giving it a coherent approach to international problems. The second is to put the international theories of five key writers - Leonard Woolf, H, N. Brailsford, Philip Noel Baker, Norman Angell and David Mitrany - into the context of both the development of Labour's international policy, and the evolution of the international environment between the wars. Although all five writers are acknowledged as key thinkers in this period, the memoranda on foreign affairs that they did for the Labour Party are little known within IR. The final goal is to demonstrate the inadequacy of the current interpretation within IR of the inter-war period. The obsession with the anachronistic division between realism and idealism - terms that had different connotations before the Second World War - masks both the very different debates that were going on at the time, and the changing international landscape of the inter-war period itself.

Author : Elaine Windrich
Publisher : Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press [1952]
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:B3465328

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British Labour's Foreign Policy by Elaine Windrich Pdf

Author : Paul Corthorn,Jonathan Davis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857711113

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The British Labour Party and the Wider World by Paul Corthorn,Jonathan Davis Pdf

The legacy of Blair and the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan continue to loom large for the Labour Party, whether in opposition or in government, giving rise to fierce debates over Labour's attitude and posture towards the wider world. This book considers the idea of Labour's international identity, examining how world events and Labour's response to them have helped to shape ideology, political culture and domestic agendas from the 1920s until the Iraq War. It provides a fascinating and original exploration of Labour both on the world stage and at home - from the influence of the Soviet Union on political thought in the interwar years to the international student revolts of the 1960s, and from media in the 1990s to Kosovo and New Labour Interventionism. This is essential reading for scholars of modern British politics, as well as anyone interested in the motivations and influences behind the Labour Party's actions on the world stage.

Author : Richard Little,Mark Wickham-Jones
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0719059623

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New Labour's Foreign Policy by Richard Little,Mark Wickham-Jones Pdf

On 12 May 1997, the foreign secretary, Robin Cook, launched a mission statement for New Labour's foreign policy. This essay asks whether New Labour have re-orientated the path of foreign policy from that established by the Conservatives.

Author : O. Daddow,J. Gaskarth
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230307315

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British Foreign Policy by O. Daddow,J. Gaskarth Pdf

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.

Author : R. M. Douglas
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0714655236

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The Labour Party, Nationalism and Internationalism, 1939-1951 by R. M. Douglas Pdf

The Second World War was a watershed moment in foreign policy for the Labour Party in Britain. Before the war, British socialists had held that nationalism was becoming obsolete and that humanity was steadily evolving towards the ideal of a single world government. The collapse of the League of Nations destroyed this optimistic vision, compelling Labour to undertake a fundamental review of its entire approach to foreign affairs during a period of unprecedented global crisis. This book traces the controversy that ensued, as the British democratic left set about the task of defining the principles of a radically new international system for the postwar world. The schemes proposed by Labour policymakers during these years encompassed a wide variety of political institutions aiming at the restraint or supersession of the sovereign nation-state. What they shared in common, however, was a reconceptualization of British identity, in which the hyper-patriotism of the wartime period blended with the left's traditional internationalism. This new 'muscular' internationalism was to have a major impact upon the evolution of entities as diverse as the United Nations Organizations, the British Commonwealth and the accelerating campaign in favor of European unity after Labour assumed the reins of government in 1945. Breaking with the traditional accounts that place Cold War tensions at the centre of the Attlee government's activities in the immediate postwar years, R.M. Douglas's book provides an entirely new framework for reassessing British foreign policy and left-wing concepts of national identity during the most turbulent moment of Britain's modern history. This book will be essential reading for all students and researchers of British foreign policy, the Labour Party and international relations.

Author : Kenneth Neal Waltz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCBK:C098097921

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Foreign Policy and Democratic Politics by Kenneth Neal Waltz Pdf

Author : Henry Winkler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351322300

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British Labour Seeks a Foreign Policy, 1900-1940 by Henry Winkler Pdf

Since World War II, the British Labour Party has played a central role in dealing with complex international issues. Achieving real power in parliament for the first time, Labour governments have acted responsibly, and are usually in accord with the views of a substantial majority of the British people. Such was not always the case. In British Labour Seeks a Foreign Policy, 1900-1940, Henry R. Winkler synthesizes twenty years' study of the subject to offer the first full-scale treatment of the Labour Party's evolution in foreign affairs. The Labour Party came into existence at the beginning of the twentieth century to deal with the domestic problems of the working class, and it showed relatively little interest in foreign policy issues. In the aftermath of World War I, however, small groups of moderates made the case against the bitter rejection of the Versailles Treaty by many in the Labour Party and the trade union movement. Most of these argued that the League of Nations could be used to remedy some of the deficiencies of the settlement and that such a League must have the sanction of force if it was to be effective. During the 1930s, the failures of the League--in the Far East, Abyssinia, Spain, and Central Europe--compelled some of its advocates to conclude that, League or no League, the threat from Nazi Germany mandated support for a program of preparedness and rearmament even under the aegis of a hated National Government. The result, by 1937, was the final formal abandonment of many of the radical illusions of the twenties and thirties, as Labour reluctantly but formally assumed a posture that enabled it to share in the governance of wartime Britain and to take a key role in dealing with the international issues that emerged in the aftermath of the Second World War. This volume contains valuable lessons on the responsibilities of political parties as well as the pros and cons of specific policies. It is essential reading for understanding Britain's later stands as its leaders tried to adjust to Britain's diminished power in the post-World War II world.

Author : Ritchie Ovendale
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015010325846

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The Foreign Policy of the British Labour Governments, 1945-1951 by Ritchie Ovendale Pdf

Author : David Carlton
Publisher : New York : Humanities Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:B3727687

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MacDonald Versus Henderson by David Carlton Pdf

Author : Rhiannon Vickers
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847795953

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The Labour Party and the world, volume 2 by Rhiannon Vickers Pdf

This is the second book in a unique two-volume study tracing the evolution of the Labour Party’s foreign policy throughout the 20th century to the present date. This is the first comprehensive study of the history of the Labour Party’s worldview and foreign policy. It argues that Labour’s foreign policy perspective should be seen not as the development of a socialist foreign policy, but as an application of the ideas of liberal internationalism. Volume Two provides a critical analysis of Labour’s foreign policy since 1951. It examines Labour’s attempts to rethink foreign policy, focusing on intra-party debates, the problems that Labour faced when in power, and the conflicting pressures from party demands and external pressures. It examines attitudes to rearmament in the 1950s, the party’s response to the Suez crisis and the Vietnam War, the bitter divisions over nuclear disarmament and the radicalisation of foreign and defence policy in the 1980s. It also examines Labour’s desire to provide moral leadership to the rest of the world. The last two chapters focus on the Blair and Brown years, with Blair’s response to the Kosovo crisis, to 9/11 and his role in the ‘war on terror’. Whereas Blair’s approach to foreign affairs was to place emphasis on the efficacy of the use of military force, Brown’s approach instead placed faith in the use of economic measures. This highly readable book provides an excellent analysis of Labour’s foreign policy. It is essential reading for students of British politics, the Labour Party, and foreign policy.