Britain and Africa under Blair: In pursuit of the good state
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Main Author: Gallagher, Julia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester Manchester University Press 2011
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
1. New Labour: doing good in Africa -- 2. Ideas of the good and the political -- 3. How the British found utopia in Africa -- 4. The good, the bad and the ambiguous -- 5. Healing the scar? -- 6. Idealisation in Africa -- 7. The good state -- 8. Conclusion
Africa was a key focus of Britain's foreign policy under Tony Blair. Military intervention in Sierra Leone, increases in aid and debt relief, and grand initiatives such as the Commission for Africa established the continent as a place in which Britain could 'do good'. Britain and Africa under Blair: in pursuit of the good state critically explores Britain's fascination with Africa. It argues that, under New Labour, Africa represented an area of policy that appeared to transcend politics. Gradually, it came to embody an ideal state activity around which politicians, officials and the wider publ
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 166 Seiten)
ISBN:9781847794222
DOI:10.7765/9781847794222

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