The British Labour Party and the wider world : domestic politics, internationalism and foreign policy
This is an examination of Labour's international policies throughout the 20th century, focusing on how they have been influenced by domestic policies. The impact of world events on the party's ideology, polictical culture and domestic agenda is also explored
History
1 volume
9781848859715, 1848859716
751754432
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)