Blair, Labour, and Palestine

Conflicting Views on Middle East Peace After 9/11

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

Av Toby Greene, Dr. Toby Greene

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Many of Tony Blair's policy decisions in the Israeli-Palestinian arena were controversial and politically costly. This book argues that gaps between him and his party were rooted in different world views, which became increasingly significant after 9/11. Based on new interviews and previously unseen documents, this unique case study shows how the distinctive world view of a political leader defined foreign policy, by shaping Britain's response to Islamist violence and its interconnected approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-08-01
Mått229 x 163 x 23 mm
Vikt621 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor312
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781441143723

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Introduction1. Roots of British Policy in the Israeli-Palestinian Arena2. New Labour and the Israeli-Palestinian Question3. "Patient and Quiet Diplomacy" in Labour's First Term4. Radical Islam, 9/11 and the Israeli-Palestinian Issue5. The Israeli-Palestinian Issue and the Response to 9/116. The Israeli-Palestinian Issue and the Iraq War7. The Israeli-Palestinian Arena Becomes "The Issue"8. The Israeli-Palestinian Issue and Domestic Counter-radicalisation9. Blair Confronts "Radical Islam"ConclusionBiblioIndex

A clear and balanced account of the longer history of British foreign policy on the region when Blair was Prime Minister, and particularly after 9/11...If you are interested in what Blair’s policy actually was, as opposed to what the Ribbentrop-Molotov alliance of the right and the anti-left said it was, this is a superb account...The summary of Britain’s involvement in the creation of Israel, and the history of the Labour Party’s attitude to the conflict, is one of the best short accounts I have read...the section on how attitudes among Labour MPs to Israel-Palestine played a part in Blair’s downfall, in the Brownite “coup” of September 2006, is excellent...an impressively fair-minded treatment of an important question, in which Blair continues to play a role.