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New Labour and the European Union
A study of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's failed attempt to sell the European ideal to the British people. Based on an exhaustive survey of New Labour's foreign policy speeches after 1997 and interviews with policy-makers involved in the formulation of New Labour's foreign policy.
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مذكرات طوني بلير : مسيرة رئيس وزارة
هذا الكتاب به يوميات رئيس وزراء بريطانيا (طوني بلير) كتبت بخط يده عن رحلته السياسية في فترة حكمه والسنوات التي تلتها وتناول فيها الأبعاد الإنسانية لرجل السلطة بقدر ما تناول الأبعاد السياسية ويتحدث كيف تزعم حزب العمال عام 1994 وكيف غير المعادلة السياسية البريطانية حين أصبح رئيسا للوزراء عام 1997 منهيا فترة حكم حزب المحافظين التي استمرت ثمانية عشر عاما ويصف للمرة الأولى دوره في صياغة التاريخ الحديث وكيف تتخذ قرارات القيادة في الحزب وفي الحكومة.
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Actor, Audience(s) and Emergency Measures: Securitization and the UK's Decision To Invade Iraq
The concept of securitization has produced a considerable amount of debate over the meaning of security. However, far less attention has been paid to the role of audiences and their relationship to actors in the securitization process. Informed by the work of Thierry Balzacq (2005), and through analysis of the decision of the UK government to join with the USA in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, in this article I show that although the general public can indeed play a valuable role in providing an actor with 'moral' support concerning the 'securityness' of an issue, more crucial, however, is the 'formal' support provided by parliament concerning the 'extraordinaryness' of the means necessary to deal with it. My argument is thus that securitization can in this way be seen as a distinct two-stage process marked by a 'stage of identification' and a 'stage of mobilization'.
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Discourse and manipulation
'Manipulation' is one of the crucial notions of Critical Discourse Analysis that require further theoretical analysis. This article offers a triangulated approach to manipulation as a form of social power abuse, cognitive mind control and discursive interaction. Socially, manipulation is defined as illegitimate domination confirming social inequality. Cognitively, manipulation as mind control involves the interference with processes of understanding, the formation of biased mental models and social representations such as knowledge and ideologies. Discursively, manipulation generally involves the usual forms and formats of ideological discourse, such as emphasizing Our good things, and emphasizing Their bad things. At all these levels of analysis it is shown how manipulation is different from legitimate mind control, such as in persuasion and providing information, for instance by stipulating that manipulation is in the best interest of the dominated group and against the best interests of dominated groups. Finally, this theory is illustrated by a partial analysis of a speech by Tony Blair in the House of Commons legitimating the participation of the UK in the US-led war against Iraq in 2003.
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Blair identity
Why did Tony Blair take Britain to war with Iraq? This book argues that he was following the core political beliefs and style - the Blair identity - manifest and consistent throughout his decade in power. It reconstructs Blair's wars, tracing his personal influence on British foreign policy and international politics during his tumultuous tenure.
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‘It Ain’t What You Say…’: British Political Studies and the Analysis of Speech and Rhetoric
This article discusses the utility and fecundity promised for British political studies by the study of speech and rhetoric. It is argued that the systematic investigation of speech in British politics can shed light on political institutions, ideologies and strategies. After exploring these areas in some detail the article goes on to discuss the last party conference speech Tony Blair delivered as Prime Minister. This discussion is demonstrative and synoptic in nature, surveying a broad territory and showing the kinds of questions that a rhetorical political analysis can ask and what, in response, might be done to answer these questions.
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