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Informationen zum Autor Paul Corthorn is Lecturer in Modern British History at University College! Oxford. He is the author of 'In the Shadow of the Dictators: The British Left in the 1930s' (I.B.Tauris! 2006). Jonathan Davis is Lecturer in Russian and Soviet History at Anglia Ruskin University! Cambridge. Klappentext Following Britain's - and specifically the Blair Government's - decision to support the United States in the war against Iraq! much has been written about the Labour party's international posture and perspectives. Yet very little serious academic analysis of Labour's stance towards the wider world has taken place among specialists. 'The British Labour Party and the Wider World' examines how throughout the twentieth century Labour's international policies have been influenced by domestic politics! and how in turn world events and Labour's response to them have helped to change the party's ideology! political culture and domestic agenda from the 1920s up to the Iraq War. This is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the motivations and influences behind the Labour Party's actions on the world stage! as well as students and researchers of British politics. Examines how throughout the twentieth century Labour's international policies have been influenced by domestic politics, and how in turn world events and Labour's response to them have helped to change the party's ideology, political culture and domestic agenda from the 1920s up to the Iraq War. Zusammenfassung Examines how throughout the twentieth century Labour's international policies have been influenced by domestic politics, and how in turn world events and Labour's response to them have helped to change the party's ideology, political culture and domestic agenda from the 1920s up to the Iraq War. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction (Andrew Thorpe)1 - A Gentleman at the Foreign Office: influences in shaping Ramsay MacDonald’s internationalism in 1924 (John Shepherd)2 - ‘A Commanding Group’? Labour’s Advisory Committee on International Questions 1928-31 (Casper Sylvest)3 - Labour’s Political Thought: the Soviet influence in the interwar years (Jonathan Davis)4 - The Labour Party in the Era of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939-41 (Paul Corthorn)5 - The Foreign Policy of the Attlee Government, 1945-50 (John Callaghan)6 - Labour Party Factionalism and West German Rearmament, 1950-4 (Robert Crowcroft)7 - ‘The Challenge of Co-Existence’: the Labour Party, affluence and the Cold War, 1951-64 (Richard Tye and Nicholas Lawton)8 - From ‘Danny the Red’ to British Student Power: Labour and the international student revolts of the 1960s (David Fowler)9 - Humanitarian Intervention, the Labour Party and the Press: the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s (Ann Schreiner)10 - From Clinton to Bush: New Labour, the USA and the Iraq War (Mark Phythian)...
