LEADER 04301nam 22006974a 450 001 9910345147503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-15869-4 010 $a9786612158698 010 $a1-4008-2712-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400827121 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788545 035 $a(EBL)457899 035 $a(OCoLC)439825952 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000223985 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11175127 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000223985 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10205012 035 $a(PQKB)10781652 035 $a(DE-B1597)446335 035 $a(OCoLC)1054881508 035 $a(OCoLC)979970148 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400827121 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457899 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312548 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215869 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457899 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788545 100 $a20050819d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe politics of good intentions$b[electronic resource] $ehistory, fear, and hypocrisy in the new world order /$fDavid Runciman 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (223 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-12566-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tPreface -- $tCHAPTER ONE. Introduction: September 11 and the New World Order -- $tPART ONE: Tony Blair, History and Risk -- $tCHAPTER TWO. Tony Blair and the Politics of Good Intentions -- $tCHAPTER THREE. Taking a Chance on War: The Worst-Case Scenarios -- $tCHAPTER FOUR. Taking a Chance on War: Suez and Iraq -- $tCHAPTER FIVE. Who Knows Best? -- $tCHAPTER SIX. Weimar Iraq -- $tPART TWO: Britain, Europe and the United States -- $tCHAPTER SEVEN. A Bear Armed with a Gun -- $tCHAPTER EIGHT. The Garden, the Park, the Meadow -- $tCHAPTER NINE. Two Revolutions, One Revolutionary -- $tCHAPTER TEN. Epilogue: Virtual Politics -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aTony Blair has often said that he wishes history to judge the great political controversies of the early twenty-first century--above all, the actions he has undertaken in alliance with George W. Bush. This book is the first attempt to fulfill that wish, using the long history of the modern state to put the events of recent years--the war on terror, the war in Iraq, the falling out between Europe and the United States--in their proper perspective. It also dissects the way that politicians like Blair and Bush have used and abused history to justify the new world order they are creating. Many books about international politics since 9/11 contend that either everything changed or nothing changed on that fateful day. This book identifies what is new about contemporary politics but also how what is new has been exploited in ways that are all too familiar. It compares recent political events with other crises in the history of modern politics--political and intellectual, ranging from seventeenth-century England to Weimar Germany--to argue that the risks of the present crisis have been exaggerated, manipulated, and misunderstood. David Runciman argues that there are three kinds of time at work in contemporary politics: news time, election time, and historical time. It is all too easy to get caught up in news time and election time, he writes. This book is about viewing the threats and challenges we face in real historical time. 606 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy 606 $aWorld politics$y21st century 606 $aSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001$xInfluence 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1997-2007 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y2001-2009 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aWorld politics 615 0$aSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001$xInfluence. 676 $a973.931 686 $a15.50$2bcl 700 $aRunciman$b David$0475241 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910345147503321 996 $aThe politics of good intentions$92456282 997 $aUNINA