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Autore |
Gallagher Julia (Lecturer in international relations) |
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Titolo |
Britain and Africa under Blair : in pursuit of the good state / / Julia Gallagher |
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Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press |
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New York, : distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 |
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1-78170-225-X |
1-84779-422-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (177 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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