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Britain and Africa Under Blair In pursuit of the good state.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2011.Description: 1 online resource (177 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781847794222
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DA591 .B758 2011
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Contents:
Subject: 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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Copyright; Contents; List of abbreviations; Preface; 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; Bibliography; Index.

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.

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