LEADER 04475oam 22006734a 450 001 9910827107303321 005 20191222111322.0 010 $a0-7190-9515-8 024 7 $a10.7765/9780719095153 035 $a(CKB)3710000000870185 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4705535 035 $a(OCoLC)1132688052 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78037 035 $a(DE-B1597)679085 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780719095153 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000870185 100 $a20110713d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aNew Labour and the European Union$eBlair and Brown's logic of history /$fOliver Daddow 210 1$aNew York :$cDistributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,$d2011. 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE, $d2020 210 4$d©2011. 215 $a1 online resource (304 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a0-7190-7640-4 311 $a0-7190-7641-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 259-277) and index. 327 $tFront matter -- $tDedication -- $tContents -- $tLists of images, figures, boxes and tables -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tList of abbreviations -- $t1 Introduction -- $t2 Context I. The New Labour project -- $t3 Context II. Discourse and norm entrepreneurship -- $t4 Interests rate -- $t5 Context III. A permanent state of discursive war -- $t6 Identities -- $t7 Context IV. New Labour, old history -- $t8 Escaping the past? -- $t9 Projecting an image -- $t10 Conclusion -- $tEpilogue. New Labour after Blair -- $tAppendix 1 -- $tAppendix 2 -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism$2bisacsh 607 $aEuropean Union countries$xRelations$zGreat Britain 607 $aGreat Britain$xRelations$zEuropean Union countries 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1997-2007 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aBritish European policy. 610 $aBritish history. 610 $aBritish national interests. 610 $aEuropean history. 610 $aEuroscepticism. 610 $aGordon Brown. 610 $aNew Labour project. 610 $aTony Blair. 610 $adecision-making style. 610 $adiscourse analysis. 610 $aforeign policy. 610 $amodern political communication. 610 $anorm entrepreneurship. 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism. 676 $a324.24107 700 $aDaddow$b Oliver J.$f1974-$01598329 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827107303321 996 $aNew Labour and the European Union$93973537 997 $aUNINA