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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791915803321

Autore

Gallagher Julia

Titolo

Britain and Africa under Blair [[electronic resource] ] : in pursuit of the good state / / Julia Gallagher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press

New York, : distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

ISBN

1-78170-225-X

1-84779-422-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Classificazione

ML 5400

Disciplina

327.4106

Soggetti

Economic assistance, British - Africa - History

Great Britain Foreign relations Africa

Africa Foreign relations Great Britain

Great Britain Foreign relations 1997-

Great Britain Politics and government 1997-2007

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. New Labour: doing good in Africa -- 2. Ideas of the good and the political -- 3. How the British found utopia in Africa -- 4. The good, the bad and the ambiguous -- 5. Healing the scar? -- 6. Idealisation in Africa -- 7. The good state -- 8. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Africa was a key focus of Britain's foreign policy under Tony Blair. Military intervention in Sierra Leone, increases in aid and debt relief, and grand initiatives such as the Commission for Africa established the continent as a place in which Britain could 'do good'. Britain and Africa under Blair: in pursuit of the good state critically explores Britain's fascination with Africa. It argues that, under New Labour, Africa represented an area of policy that appeared to transcend politics. Gradually, it came to embody an ideal state activity around which politicians, officials and the wider publ