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

By:

Gallagher, Julia [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781847794222

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

DA591 .B758 2011

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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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	DA591.56 G35 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn818847550

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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