The Blair identity : Leadership and foreign policy.

The Blair identity : Leadership and foreign policy.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Dyson, Stephen Benedict.
Imprint:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (174 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:	Blair, Tony, -- 1953- -- Psychology. Blair, Tony, -- 1953- -- Political and social views. Blair, Tony, -- 1953- Political leadership. Diplomatic relations. Political and social views. Political leadership. Psychology. Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1997- Great Britain. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11166885

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ISBN:	9781847792907 1847792901 9781781702178 1781702179 9780719079993 0719079993
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Why did Tony Blair take Britain to war with Iraq? Because, this book argues, he was following the core political beliefs and style - the Blair identity - manifest and consistent throughout his decade in power. Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, and finally Iraq were wars to which Blair was drawn due to his black-and-white framing of the world, his overwhelming confidence that he could shape events, and his tightly-held, presidential style of government. In this new application of political psychology to the British prime ministership, Dyson analyses every answer Blair gave to a foreign policy.
Other form:	Print version: Dyson, Stephen Benedict. Blair identity : Leadership and foreign policy. Manchester : Manchester University Press, ©2009 9780719079993

Table of Contents:

9780719079993; 9780719079993; Copyright; Contents; List of tables; 1 Blair's wars; 2 Neoclassical realism and leader psychology: a theory of foreign policy; 3 Tony Blair's personality and leadership style; 4 The Kosovo and Sierra Leone interventions; 5 September 11 and the 'war on terror'; 6 Iraq
Blair's war; 7 Postwar Iraq; 8 The Blair balance sheet; Index.