04475oam 22006734a 450 991082710730332120191222111322.00-7190-9515-810.7765/9780719095153(CKB)3710000000870185(MiAaPQ)EBC4705535(OCoLC)1132688052(MdBmJHUP)muse78037(DE-B1597)679085(DE-B1597)9780719095153(EXLCZ)99371000000087018520110713d2011 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierNew Labour and the European UnionBlair and Brown's logic of history /Oliver DaddowNew York :Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,2011.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, 2020©2011.1 online resource (304 pages) illustrations0-7190-7640-4 0-7190-7641-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-277) and index.Front matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- Lists of images, figures, boxes and tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Context I. The New Labour project -- 3 Context II. Discourse and norm entrepreneurship -- 4 Interests rate -- 5 Context III. A permanent state of discursive war -- 6 Identities -- 7 Context IV. New Labour, old history -- 8 Escaping the past? -- 9 Projecting an image -- 10 Conclusion -- Epilogue. New Labour after Blair -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Bibliography -- IndexThis book explores Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s attempt to sell the European ideal to the British people. New Labour came to power in 1997 promising to modernize the country and make it fit for the twenty-first century. In foreign policy, Blair and Brown set about rethinking core components of the British national identity, especially the country’s relationship to its past and its role in the world. Rebranding Britain, they argued, meant helping the British people feel comfortably at home in the European Union. What did New Labour achieve and did its European policy succeed? How did Blair and Brown try and persuade the British to accept a European future? What were the obstacles they faced and the strategies they used to overcome them?This timely study of New Labour’s effort to build a ‘pro-European consensus’ in Britain argues that the government failed to live up to its early promises. Based on evidence from well over one hundred of Blair and Brown’s foreign policy speeches supplemented by interviews with policy-makers, advisers and speech-writers from the time, the book is sympathetic to the challenge New Labour set itself but also critical of the rhetorical techniques it used to advance the Europeanist cause. Trapped between a broadly hostile media and an apathetic public, Blair and Brown failed to provide the necessary leadership to see Britain to a European future. Theoretically informed, empirically robust and methodologically innovative, this novel book will appeal to anyone interested in contemporary British foreign policy, the New Labour project and Euroscepticism in Britain.POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismbisacshEuropean Union countriesRelationsGreat BritainGreat BritainRelationsEuropean Union countriesGreat BritainPolitics and government1997-2007Electronic books. British European policy.British history.British national interests.European history.Euroscepticism.Gordon Brown.New Labour project.Tony Blair.decision-making style.discourse analysis.foreign policy.modern political communication.norm entrepreneurship.POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism.324.24107Daddow Oliver J.1974-1598329MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910827107303321New Labour and the European Union3973537UNINA