LEADER 04596oam 22006974a 450 001 9910971788703321 005 20200605122716.0 010 $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(UkMaC)1129945979 035 $a(UkMaJRU)992981147225501631 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000870185 100 $a20200226d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNew Labour and the European Union $eBlair and Brown's logic of history /$fOliver Daddow 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aManchester :$cManchester University Press,$d2011 210 2$aNew York :$cNew York :$cDistributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 287 pages) $cillustrations; digital file(s); digital file(s) 311 08$a0-7190-7640-4 311 08$a0-7190-7641-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 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 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 $a327.4104 700 $aDaddow$b Oliver J.$f1974-$01817002 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 801 2$bUkMac 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910971788703321 996 $aNew Labour and the European Union$94374321 997 $aUNINA