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Book SynopsisA study of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's failed attempt to sell the European ideal to the British people. Based on an exhaustive survey of New Labour's foreign policy speeches after 1997 and interviews with policy-makers involved in the formulation of New Labour's foreign policy.
Trade ReviewOliver Daddow has written an interesting, timely and innovative analysis of the nuances of the 'New Labour' approach towards what they had hoped would be a 'new Europe'. -- .
Table of Contents1. Introduction
2. Context I: The New Labour project
3. Context II: Discourse and norm entrepeneurship
4. Interests rate: economics, influence and security
5. Context III: A permanent state of discursive war
6. Identities: New Labour and the Eurosceptics
7. Context IV: New Labour, old history
8. Escaping the past?
9. Projecting an image: Blair, the EU and the wider world
10. Conclusion
Epilogue
Appendices
Bibliography
