This book provides a penetrating new study of the Labour Party's thinking on international relations, which probes the past, present and future of the party's approach to the international stage.

The foreign policy of the Labour Party is not only neglected in most histories of the party, it is also often considered in isolation from the party's origins, evolution and major domestic preoccupations. Yet nothing has been more divisive and more controversial in Labour's history than the party's foreign and defence policies and their relationship to its domestic programme.

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The current Bush administration has frequently been labelled one of the most ideologically driven administrations in recent American history, its Iraq policy often said to represent the triumph of ideology over sensible policy advice. The name almost always given to the ideology that has supposedly captured the foreign policy of the Bush administration is neoconservatism. Such claims treat both ideology and neoconservatism as highly pejorative terms, robbing this discourse of much of its analytical purchase. In this book we show that the ideological dimension of US foreign policy is an...

The current Bush administration has frequently been labelled one of the most ideologically driven administrations in recent American history, its Iraq policy often said to represent the triumph of ideology over sensible policy advice. The name almost always given to the ideology that has supposedly captured the foreign policy of the Bush administration is neoconservatism. Such claims treat both ideology and neoconservatism as highly pejorative terms, robbing this discourse of much of its analytical purchase. In this book we show that the ideological dimension of US foreign policy is an...