The Blair identity : Leadership and foreign policy.

By:

Dyson, Stephen Benedict

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2009Description: 1 online resource (174 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781847792907
1847792901
9781781702178
1781702179

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Blair identity : Leadership and foreign policy.DDC classification:

327.41 941.0859092

LOC classification:

DA566.7 .D97 2009

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Contents:

9780719079993; 9780719079993; Copyright; Contents; List of tables; 1 Blair's wars; 2 Neoclassical realism and leader psychology: a theory of foreign policy; 3 Tony Blair's personality and leadership style; 4 The Kosovo and Sierra Leone interventions; 5 September 11 and the 'war on terror'; 6 Iraq -- Blair's war; 7 Postwar Iraq; 8 The Blair balance sheet; Index.

Summary: Why did Tony Blair take Britain to war with Iraq? Because, this book argues, he was following the core political beliefs and style - the Blair identity - manifest and consistent throughout his decade in power. Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, and finally Iraq were wars to which Blair was drawn due to his black-and-white framing of the world, his overwhelming confidence that he could shape events, and his tightly-held, presidential style of government. In this new application of political psychology to the British prime ministership, Dyson analyses every answer Blair gave to a foreign policy.

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Why did Tony Blair take Britain to war with Iraq? Because, this book argues, he was following the core political beliefs and style - the Blair identity - manifest and consistent throughout his decade in power. Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, and finally Iraq were wars to which Blair was drawn due to his black-and-white framing of the world, his overwhelming confidence that he could shape events, and his tightly-held, presidential style of government. In this new application of political psychology to the British prime ministership, Dyson analyses every answer Blair gave to a foreign policy.