Oliver Daddow
Biographic Data
| ID | 443936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oliver Daddow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oliver |
| FAMILY NAME | Daddow |
| SIGNATURE | DADDOW O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5010-0120 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 195 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Interpreting toxic masculinity in political parties: A framework for analysis
The term ‘toxic masculinity’ (TM) was coined in the 1990s by sociologists and psychologists. It has since been appropriated by scholars and commentators interested in gendered behaviours, policies and outcomes in politics. However, despite the attention belatedly being paid to masculinities as part of that research, the analysis of, specifically, TM’s part in shaping political practices remains underdeveloped. This article proposes a move in this…
From secrecy to accountability: The politics of exposure in the Belgrano affair
This article adds to the intersubjective research into policy failures by analysing the furore that erupted in UK politics over the sinking in May 1982 of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano during the Falklands War. The article examines the ways in which the Thatcher government initially tried to conceal what had really happened and how, over time, the revelations piled up and the sinking came to be narrated as a serious case of government wr…
The battle of Bruges: Margaret Thatcher, the foreign office and the unravelling of British European policy
Drawing on newly released archival material, this article reassesses Margaret Thatcher’s 1988 Bruges speech, widely depicted to have instigated Britain's drift towards Brexit. It opens by giving an essential recap of the main contents of the speech. Next, the article explains why and how we use the address as a prism through which to see Thatcher's European policy-making in action. The third section tells how the speech was written to show how in…
GlobalBritainTM: The discursive construction of Britain’s post-Brexit world role
Of the many dilemmas faced by Theresa May in negotiating Britain’s withdrawal from the EU, finding a workable narrative to explain Britain’s new world role post-Brexit proved one of the most intractable. She and her top government ministers alighted on the idea of “Global Britain”. Giving it the shorthand GlobalBritainTM, the article interprets the vision using qualitative discourse analysis. It begins by positioning the article as a contribution…
Covert action failure and fiasco construction: William Hague’s 2011 Libyan venture
In 2011 William Hague, then British Foreign Secretary, authorized a Special Forces team to enter Libya and attempt to contact rebels opposed to Muammar Gaddafi in the unfolding civil war. However, its members were detained by the rebels, questioned and ejected from the country. This article puts the literature on public policy failures into dialogue with that on covert action as a tool of foreign policy. It asks: why did this not develop into a f…
Interpreting the Outsider Tradition inBritishEuropean Policy Speeches fromThatcher toCameron
This article investigates howBritishEuropean policy thinking has been informed by what it identifies as an ‘outsider’ tradition of thinking about ‘Europe’ inBritish foreign policy dating from imperial times to the present. The article begins by delineating five phases in the evolution of the outsider tradition back to 1815 through a survey of the relevant historiography. The article then examines how prime ministers fromMargaretThatcher toDavidCa…
Introduction: InterpretingBritishEuropean Policy
Britain has had particular problems reconciling itself to the idea of being a ‘European’ actor and a wholehearted member of theEEC/EUsince 1973. Now, potentially, the ‘awkward partner’ is edging towards the exit door of theEUbecause a membership a referendum gauging the opinion of a sullenly Eurosceptical UK public is a likely prospect in the coming years. The aim of this special issue ofJCMSis to consider how one can account for the present stat…
Constructing a 'great' role for Britain in an age of austerity: Interpreting coalition foreign policy, 2010-2015
This article interprets the ideational underpinnings of the British Conservative-Liberal coalition government's foreign policy from 2010 to 2015. It uses qualitative discourse analysis of speeches, statements and policy documents to unpack the traditions of foreign policy thought which informed some of the key foreign policy practices of the coalition government. The analysis centres on the British identity constructed by liberal Conservatives, a…
Interpreting foreign policy: National, comparative and regional studies
This Special Issue advances an interpretive research programme into Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) and International Relations by showcasing new work on the study of foreign policy and regional cooperation. This introductory article explains the rationale and contents of the Special Issue in three parts. The opening part explains how the contributions complement the broader study of ideas in FPA and International Relations through a critique of me…
New Labour: A Witness History
This article is the edited transcript of a witness history seminar which brought together high profile ‘insiders’ and ‘outside’ academic commentators to reflect critically on New Labour's governance of Britain, 1997–2010. The contributions cover major areas of government activity, notably the economy, industrial policy, social justice, energy policy, ‘Europe’, military intervention, the use of intelligence, party and image management, and governm…
Darth Vader or Don Quixote? Keith Jenkins in review
Keith Jenkins is undoubtedly one of the most controversial and divisive historical theorists of the contemporary era. This article examines the reception that Jenkins's work has received from academic reviewers, in order to see how the Jenkins ‘brand’, so to speak, has been constructed over the past 20 years or so. The article studies how the reception of Jenkins's work by reviewers allowed them to continue the ‘history wars’ away from the main b…
Liberal intervention in the foreign policy thinking of Tony Blair and David Cameron
David Cameron was a critic of Tony Blair's doctrine of the ‘international community’, which was used to justify war in Kosovo and more controversially in Iraq, suggesting caution in projecting military force abroad while in opposition. However, and in spite of making severe cuts to the defence budget, the Cameron-led Coalition government signed Britain up to a military intervention in Libya within a year of coming into office. What does this say …
The Use of Force in British Foreign Policy: From New Labour to the Coalition
This article studies the ideational underpinnings of the UK Coalition government's ‘liberal conservative’ foreign policy. It begins by suggesting that an Iraq‐centric account of Blair's foreign policy suggests a grand vision on the prime minister's part that was lacking from his earlier foreign policy adventures, which relied on a more conventional form of British statecraft. The second section contends that the Gordon Brown years 2007–10 and, si…
Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and the Eurosceptic Tradition in Britain
This article advances the interpretivist perspective on British foreign policy by studying Tony Blair's difficult encounter with the Eurosceptic tradition in Britain, popularized by Margaret Thatcher from the late 1980s. Using discourse data taken from key foreign policy speeches by the two leaders across their periods in office, the article investigates the problems Blair and his New Labour team faced when trying to justify and legitimize Britai…
Introduction: Interpreting British Foreign Policy
This special issue collects together a series of essays that investigate the analytical possibilities offered to the study of British foreign policy by the interpretive approach to political science and international relations.The interpretive approach concentrates on the beliefs of various policy actors, the meanings of their actions, and, crucially, explains the beliefs by locating them in historical traditions and as responses to dilemmas.It h…
The UK media and 'Europe: From Permissive Consensus to Destructive Dissent
This article examines the nature and impact of changing media coverage of European integration in Britain from accession to the European Economic Community in 1973 to the present day. It does so through a consideration of the causes behind the collapse of the ‘permissive consensus’ on European affairs, which since the time of the 1975 referendum has given way to a form of ‘destructive dissent’ across vast swaths of the written and broadcast media…
Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life - By Martin L. Davies
Essays written at various times with varying audiences in mind do not invariably, when collected, 'add up'.Those collected in this sparkling volume explore what Stefan Collini refers to as 'the literary and intellectual culture' of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present.Most of them have been published elsewhere and there has been only light revision.In no sense, therefore, is this an attempt at a systematic exploration in a plan…
Half-Remembered Quotations from Mostly Forgotten Speeches: The Limits of Labour's European Policy Discourse
This article uses discourse analysis to study the continuities in British foreign policy thinking within the Labour party from the 1960s to the present day. Using representative extracts from speeches by Hugh Gaitskell, Harold Wilson, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, it identifies the ideational consistencies in the leaders' attitudes to: Empire; federalism in the EEC/EU; and laying down conditions that have to be met before any constructive engageme…
Harold Wilson's Cold War: The Labour Government and East-West Politics, 1964-1970. By Geraint Hughes
A much maligned Prime Minister, Harold Wilson's governance of Britain continues to fascinate, intrigue and irk scholars in equal measure. A skilful politician he may have been, but relatively few commentators have been willing or able to stand outside the contemporaneous critiques of the Wilson premierships to try and understand his worldview and policies on their own terms, as it were. The release of official government records under the Thirty …
Narrative and History ‐ By Alun Munslow
History and Cultural Theory ‐ By Simon Gunn
Tony's war'? Blair, Kosovo and the interventionist impulse in British foreign policy
Operation Allied Force had a decisive impact on Tony Blair's leadership of UK foreign policy. This article begins with Blair's famous Chicago speech of April 1999; his clearest statement of an apparently underlying moral purpose in international relations. It then contrasts the conventional wisdom that over Kosovo Blair was acting out of a sense of moral obligation (sharpened by recent British failings to act to prevent humanitarian disasters in …
Exploding history: Hayden White on disciplinization
This article explores Hayden White's documentation and interpretation of the processes of disciplinization that occurred in the field of historical studies from the nineteenth century onwards. It identifies two of White's concerns about professionalization in particular: the increasing set of repressions within the study of the past as far as radical or progressive historiographical approaches were concerned and an unhappy divorce between history…
What is History for? - by Beverley Southgate
Anand Menon (2004) Britain and European Integration: Views From Within
This slim but interesting volume is an
Introduction: Interpreting British Foreign Policy
This special issue collects together a series of essays that investigate the analytical possibilities offered to the study of British foreign policy by the interpretive approach to political science and international relations.The interpretive approach concentrates on the beliefs of various policy actors, the meanings of their actions, and, crucially, explains the beliefs by locating them in historical traditions and as responses to dilemmas.It h…
Interpreting the Outsider Tradition inBritishEuropean Policy Speeches fromThatcher toCameron
This article investigates howBritishEuropean policy thinking has been informed by what it identifies as an ‘outsider’ tradition of thinking about ‘Europe’ inBritish foreign policy dating from imperial times to the present. The article begins by delineating five phases in the evolution of the outsider tradition back to 1815 through a survey of the relevant historiography. The article then examines how prime ministers fromMargaretThatcher toDavidCa…
Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and the Eurosceptic Tradition in Britain
This article advances the interpretivist perspective on British foreign policy by studying Tony Blair's difficult encounter with the Eurosceptic tradition in Britain, popularized by Margaret Thatcher from the late 1980s. Using discourse data taken from key foreign policy speeches by the two leaders across their periods in office, the article investigates the problems Blair and his New Labour team faced when trying to justify and legitimize Britai…
Interpreting toxic masculinity in political parties: A framework for analysis
The term ‘toxic masculinity’ (TM) was coined in the 1990s by sociologists and psychologists. It has since been appropriated by scholars and commentators interested in gendered behaviours, policies and outcomes in politics. However, despite the attention belatedly being paid to masculinities as part of that research, the analysis of, specifically, TM’s part in shaping political practices remains underdeveloped. This article proposes a move in this…
The UK media and 'Europe: From Permissive Consensus to Destructive Dissent
This article examines the nature and impact of changing media coverage of European integration in Britain from accession to the European Economic Community in 1973 to the present day. It does so through a consideration of the causes behind the collapse of the ‘permissive consensus’ on European affairs, which since the time of the 1975 referendum has given way to a form of ‘destructive dissent’ across vast swaths of the written and broadcast media…
GlobalBritainTM: The discursive construction of Britain’s post-Brexit world role
Of the many dilemmas faced by Theresa May in negotiating Britain’s withdrawal from the EU, finding a workable narrative to explain Britain’s new world role post-Brexit proved one of the most intractable. She and her top government ministers alighted on the idea of “Global Britain”. Giving it the shorthand GlobalBritainTM, the article interprets the vision using qualitative discourse analysis. It begins by positioning the article as a contribution…
Introduction: InterpretingBritishEuropean Policy
Britain has had particular problems reconciling itself to the idea of being a ‘European’ actor and a wholehearted member of theEEC/EUsince 1973. Now, potentially, the ‘awkward partner’ is edging towards the exit door of theEUbecause a membership a referendum gauging the opinion of a sullenly Eurosceptical UK public is a likely prospect in the coming years. The aim of this special issue ofJCMSis to consider how one can account for the present stat…
Half-Remembered Quotations from Mostly Forgotten Speeches: The Limits of Labour's European Policy Discourse
This article uses discourse analysis to study the continuities in British foreign policy thinking within the Labour party from the 1960s to the present day. Using representative extracts from speeches by Hugh Gaitskell, Harold Wilson, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, it identifies the ideational consistencies in the leaders' attitudes to: Empire; federalism in the EEC/EU; and laying down conditions that have to be met before any constructive engageme…
Liberal intervention in the foreign policy thinking of Tony Blair and David Cameron
David Cameron was a critic of Tony Blair's doctrine of the ‘international community’, which was used to justify war in Kosovo and more controversially in Iraq, suggesting caution in projecting military force abroad while in opposition. However, and in spite of making severe cuts to the defence budget, the Cameron-led Coalition government signed Britain up to a military intervention in Libya within a year of coming into office. What does this say …
Euroscepticism and History Education in Britain
This article examines the role played by national history in generating and sustaining the popularity of British Eurosceptic arguments. The core argument advanced is that the modernist approach to history prevalent among British historians and the society in which they work has to be considered the key reason for Euroscepticism retaining such a popular appeal in Britain. The overly reverential attitude to recent martial history on the part of the…
The Use of Force in British Foreign Policy: From New Labour to the Coalition
This article studies the ideational underpinnings of the UK Coalition government's ‘liberal conservative’ foreign policy. It begins by suggesting that an Iraq‐centric account of Blair's foreign policy suggests a grand vision on the prime minister's part that was lacking from his earlier foreign policy adventures, which relied on a more conventional form of British statecraft. The second section contends that the Gordon Brown years 2007–10 and, si…
The battle of Bruges: Margaret Thatcher, the foreign office and the unravelling of British European policy
Drawing on newly released archival material, this article reassesses Margaret Thatcher’s 1988 Bruges speech, widely depicted to have instigated Britain's drift towards Brexit. It opens by giving an essential recap of the main contents of the speech. Next, the article explains why and how we use the address as a prism through which to see Thatcher's European policy-making in action. The third section tells how the speech was written to show how in…
Tony's war'? Blair, Kosovo and the interventionist impulse in British foreign policy
Operation Allied Force had a decisive impact on Tony Blair's leadership of UK foreign policy. This article begins with Blair's famous Chicago speech of April 1999; his clearest statement of an apparently underlying moral purpose in international relations. It then contrasts the conventional wisdom that over Kosovo Blair was acting out of a sense of moral obligation (sharpened by recent British failings to act to prevent humanitarian disasters in …
From secrecy to accountability: The politics of exposure in the Belgrano affair
This article adds to the intersubjective research into policy failures by analysing the furore that erupted in UK politics over the sinking in May 1982 of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano during the Falklands War. The article examines the ways in which the Thatcher government initially tried to conceal what had really happened and how, over time, the revelations piled up and the sinking came to be narrated as a serious case of government wr…
Covert action failure and fiasco construction: William Hague’s 2011 Libyan venture
In 2011 William Hague, then British Foreign Secretary, authorized a Special Forces team to enter Libya and attempt to contact rebels opposed to Muammar Gaddafi in the unfolding civil war. However, its members were detained by the rebels, questioned and ejected from the country. This article puts the literature on public policy failures into dialogue with that on covert action as a tool of foreign policy. It asks: why did this not develop into a f…
Constructing a 'great' role for Britain in an age of austerity: Interpreting coalition foreign policy, 2010-2015
This article interprets the ideational underpinnings of the British Conservative-Liberal coalition government's foreign policy from 2010 to 2015. It uses qualitative discourse analysis of speeches, statements and policy documents to unpack the traditions of foreign policy thought which informed some of the key foreign policy practices of the coalition government. The analysis centres on the British identity constructed by liberal Conservatives, a…
Euroscepticism and the culture of the discipline of history
This article explores the uses of history in contemporary Eurosceptic discourse in Britain. It does so in the knowledge that studying an essentially contested concept such as Euroscepticism poses severe methodological problems, and in the first section I situate my article in the emerging scholarly literature on the subject. Having explained why I limit my research to popular Euroscepticism in the tabloid press, in the second section I critically…
Interpreting foreign policy: National, comparative and regional studies
This Special Issue advances an interpretive research programme into Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) and International Relations by showcasing new work on the study of foreign policy and regional cooperation. This introductory article explains the rationale and contents of the Special Issue in three parts. The opening part explains how the contributions complement the broader study of ideas in FPA and International Relations through a critique of me…
Playing Games with History: Tony Blair's European Policy in the Press
This article examines how Tony Blair on the one hand and the Euro-sceptical press on the other have ransacked history to support their respective arguments about British European policy since 1997. It considers first of all why history plays a key role in British discussions about European affairs; it does so, firstly, because of the discipline's intimate connection with the making of national identities and, secondly, because Europe has long bee…
British military doctrine in the 1980s and 1990s
(2003). British military doctrine in the 1980s and 1990s. Defence Studies: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 103-113
New Labour: A Witness History
This article is the edited transcript of a witness history seminar which brought together high profile ‘insiders’ and ‘outside’ academic commentators to reflect critically on New Labour's governance of Britain, 1997–2010. The contributions cover major areas of government activity, notably the economy, industrial policy, social justice, energy policy, ‘Europe’, military intervention, the use of intelligence, party and image management, and governm…
The Ideology of Apathy: Historians and Postmodernism
This article explores the reasons why the relationship between historians on the one hand and philosophers and theorists of history on the other tends to be acrimonious more than harmonious. Having examined the continuing allure of ‘truth’, ‘science’ and ‘objectivity’ to those who seek to construct history's disciplinary identity, the article invites us to deconstruct these terms as a means of refining our understanding of what historians do in p…
Facing the future: History in the writing of British military doctrine
(2002). Facing the future: History in the writing of British military doctrine. Defence Studies: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 157-164
Facing the future: History in the writing of British military doctrine
(2002). Facing the future: History in the writing of British military doctrine. Defence Studies: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 157-164
Facing the future: History in the writing of British military doctrine
British military doctrine in the 1980s and 1990s
(2003). British military doctrine in the 1980s and 1990s. Defence Studies: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 103-113
The Ideology of Apathy: Historians and Postmodernism
This article explores the reasons why the relationship between historians on the one hand and philosophers and theorists of history on the other tends to be acrimonious more than harmonious. Having examined the continuing allure of ‘truth’, ‘science’ and ‘objectivity’ to those who seek to construct history's disciplinary identity, the article invites us to deconstruct these terms as a means of refining our understanding of what historians do in p…
Debating history today
This miniature explores the state of contemporary disagreements about the nature and practice of history and argues that it is time to rethink the way we debate history. It suggests that the discipline needs to take greater account of new directions in the philosophy of history, since even the most empirically minded of practising historians agree that their narratives are infused with prejudice and bias. These are born out of the questions they …
No Philosophy Please, We're Historians
A significant part of the work of academic historians since the professionalization of the discipline of history in the nineteenth century has been to define what ‘history’ is as an academic discipline with regard to its neighbouring disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. This miniature argues that the politics of disciplinary identity formation is a strong explanation for the often apathetic and sometimes hostile reaction by empirici…
Still no philosophy please, we're historians 1
Works of history are social constructions influenced by a host of factors that are both particular to the historian and endemic to the environment within which he or she researches and narrativises the past. Focusing on how academic historians have gone about constructing their identity since the end of the 19th century, this paper is a further contribution to the debate that continues to rage between historians and philosophers of history about …
Euroscepticism and the culture of the discipline of history
This article explores the uses of history in contemporary Eurosceptic discourse in Britain. It does so in the knowledge that studying an essentially contested concept such as Euroscepticism poses severe methodological problems, and in the first section I situate my article in the emerging scholarly literature on the subject. Having explained why I limit my research to popular Euroscepticism in the tabloid press, in the second section I critically…
Euroscepticism and History Education in Britain
This article examines the role played by national history in generating and sustaining the popularity of British Eurosceptic arguments. The core argument advanced is that the modernist approach to history prevalent among British historians and the society in which they work has to be considered the key reason for Euroscepticism retaining such a popular appeal in Britain. The overly reverential attitude to recent martial history on the part of the…
Anand Menon (2004) Britain and European Integration: Views From Within
This slim but interesting volume is an
Playing Games with History: Tony Blair's European Policy in the Press
This article examines how Tony Blair on the one hand and the Euro-sceptical press on the other have ransacked history to support their respective arguments about British European policy since 1997. It considers first of all why history plays a key role in British discussions about European affairs; it does so, firstly, because of the discipline's intimate connection with the making of national identities and, secondly, because Europe has long bee…
Postsocial History: An Introduction By Miguel A. Cabrera, translated by Marie McMahon
Exploding history: Hayden White on disciplinization
This article explores Hayden White's documentation and interpretation of the processes of disciplinization that occurred in the field of historical studies from the nineteenth century onwards. It identifies two of White's concerns about professionalization in particular: the increasing set of repressions within the study of the past as far as radical or progressive historiographical approaches were concerned and an unhappy divorce between history…
What is History for? - by Beverley Southgate
Harold Wilson's Cold War: The Labour Government and East-West Politics, 1964-1970. By Geraint Hughes
A much maligned Prime Minister, Harold Wilson's governance of Britain continues to fascinate, intrigue and irk scholars in equal measure. A skilful politician he may have been, but relatively few commentators have been willing or able to stand outside the contemporaneous critiques of the Wilson premierships to try and understand his worldview and policies on their own terms, as it were. The release of official government records under the Thirty …
Narrative and History ‐ By Alun Munslow
History and Cultural Theory ‐ By Simon Gunn
Tony's war'? Blair, Kosovo and the interventionist impulse in British foreign policy
Operation Allied Force had a decisive impact on Tony Blair's leadership of UK foreign policy. This article begins with Blair's famous Chicago speech of April 1999; his clearest statement of an apparently underlying moral purpose in international relations. It then contrasts the conventional wisdom that over Kosovo Blair was acting out of a sense of moral obligation (sharpened by recent British failings to act to prevent humanitarian disasters in …
Half-Remembered Quotations from Mostly Forgotten Speeches: The Limits of Labour's European Policy Discourse
This article uses discourse analysis to study the continuities in British foreign policy thinking within the Labour party from the 1960s to the present day. Using representative extracts from speeches by Hugh Gaitskell, Harold Wilson, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, it identifies the ideational consistencies in the leaders' attitudes to: Empire; federalism in the EEC/EU; and laying down conditions that have to be met before any constructive engageme…
Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life - By Martin L. Davies
Essays written at various times with varying audiences in mind do not invariably, when collected, 'add up'.Those collected in this sparkling volume explore what Stefan Collini refers to as 'the literary and intellectual culture' of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present.Most of them have been published elsewhere and there has been only light revision.In no sense, therefore, is this an attempt at a systematic exploration in a plan…
Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and the Eurosceptic Tradition in Britain
This article advances the interpretivist perspective on British foreign policy by studying Tony Blair's difficult encounter with the Eurosceptic tradition in Britain, popularized by Margaret Thatcher from the late 1980s. Using discourse data taken from key foreign policy speeches by the two leaders across their periods in office, the article investigates the problems Blair and his New Labour team faced when trying to justify and legitimize Britai…
Introduction: Interpreting British Foreign Policy
This special issue collects together a series of essays that investigate the analytical possibilities offered to the study of British foreign policy by the interpretive approach to political science and international relations.The interpretive approach concentrates on the beliefs of various policy actors, the meanings of their actions, and, crucially, explains the beliefs by locating them in historical traditions and as responses to dilemmas.It h…
The UK media and 'Europe: From Permissive Consensus to Destructive Dissent
This article examines the nature and impact of changing media coverage of European integration in Britain from accession to the European Economic Community in 1973 to the present day. It does so through a consideration of the causes behind the collapse of the ‘permissive consensus’ on European affairs, which since the time of the 1975 referendum has given way to a form of ‘destructive dissent’ across vast swaths of the written and broadcast media…
Darth Vader or Don Quixote? Keith Jenkins in review
Keith Jenkins is undoubtedly one of the most controversial and divisive historical theorists of the contemporary era. This article examines the reception that Jenkins's work has received from academic reviewers, in order to see how the Jenkins ‘brand’, so to speak, has been constructed over the past 20 years or so. The article studies how the reception of Jenkins's work by reviewers allowed them to continue the ‘history wars’ away from the main b…
Liberal intervention in the foreign policy thinking of Tony Blair and David Cameron
David Cameron was a critic of Tony Blair's doctrine of the ‘international community’, which was used to justify war in Kosovo and more controversially in Iraq, suggesting caution in projecting military force abroad while in opposition. However, and in spite of making severe cuts to the defence budget, the Cameron-led Coalition government signed Britain up to a military intervention in Libya within a year of coming into office. What does this say …
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