New Labour and the European Union : Blair and Brown's logic of history

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This book explores Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's attempt to sell the European ideal to the British people. New Labour came to power in 1997 promising to modernize the country and make it fit for the twenty-first century. In foreign policy, Blair and Brown set about rethinking core components of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Daddow, Oliver J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Brown, Gordon, > 1951-
Blair, Tony, > 1953-
Labour Party (Great Britain)
European Union.
Politics and government.
International relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Great Britain.
European Union countries.
Pays de l'Union europeenne > Relations > Grande-Bretagne.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1997-2007.
European Union countries > Relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Relations > European Union countries.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1997-2007.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • New Labour and the European Union: Blair and Brown's logic of history: Oliver Daddow; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Images, figures, boxes and tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Context I. The New Labour project; Chapter 3. Context II. Discourse and norm entrepreneurship; Chapter 4. Interests rate: economics, influence and security; Chapter 5. Context III. A permanent state of discursive war; Chapter 6. Identities: New Labour and the Eurosceptics; Chapter 7. Context IV. New Labour, old history.
  • Chapter 8. Escaping the past?Chapter 9. Projecting an image: New Labour, the EU and the wider world; Chapter 10. Conclusion; Epilogue: New Labour after Blair: British European discourses 2007-10; Appendix 1: Coding scheme; Appendix 2: A coded speech; Bibliography; Index.

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