TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dyson,Stephen Benedict
TI  - The Blair identity: Leadership and foreign policy
SN  - 9781847792907
AV  - DA566 .B535 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Blair, Tony,
KW  - Blair, Tony, 1953-
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 1997-
KW  - Political leadership
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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