Dyson, Stephen Benedict. <br/><br/>
The Blair identity  Leadership and foreign policy. 

 - Manchester :  Manchester University Press,  (c)2009. 
 - 1 online resource (174 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781847792907 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Blair, Tony, 1953- --Psychology.<br/>Blair, Tony, 1953- --Political and social views.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Blair, Tony, 1953---Political and social views.<br/>Blair, Tony, 1953---Psychology.<br/>Great Britain--Foreign relations--1997-<br/>Political leadership.<br/>Political leadership.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DA566  / .B535 2009