Author : Anthony Seldon
Publisher :
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Ex-prime ministers
ISBN : 9780511367229
Tony Blair dominated British political life for more than a decade. Bringing together eminent academics and commentators, this title presents a wide-ranging overview of the achievements and failures of the Blair years.
Author : Anthony Seldon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 10,36 MB
Release : 2007-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139468987
Tony Blair has dominated British political life for more than a decade. Like Margaret Thatcher before him, he has changed the terms of political debate and provoked as much condemnation as admiration. At the end of his era in power, this book presents a wide-ranging overview of the achievements and failures of the Blair governments. Bringing together Britain's most eminent academics and commentators on British politics and society, it examines the effect of the Prime Minister and his administration on the machinery of government, economic and social policy and foreign relations. Combining serious scholarship with clarity and accessibility, this book represents the authoritative verdict on the impact of the Blair years on British politics and society.
Author : Somerville, Will
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 37,55 MB
Release : 2007-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1847422578
Lurid headlines on every aspect of migration have been a consistent feature of the last decade, from worries over asylum seekers to concerns about unprecedented economic immigration from Eastern Europe. This book presents the first comprehensive account of government policy on immigration over the last ten years, providing an in-depth analysis of policy and legislation since Tony Blair and New Labour were first elected. The account begins by placing policy change under Labour in their proper historical context, before examining the key policy themes - economic migration; security; integration; asylum; delivery - of the last decade. Through an analysis of such policy themes, the author contends that immigration policy has undergone an intense and innovative transformation in the period from May 1997 to May 2007. Arguing that a more plural system of governance exists, the author challenges traditional accounts of policy development. By addressing the various influences on immigration policymaking, from globalisation, the European Union and the law, to politics, the media and the networks of special interests, he seeks to provide a holistic explanation for the transformation of immigration policy. The author concludes with an evaluation of Labour's immigration reforms, and whether government policy can be judged a success. The book will be of interest to policymakers, academics, students studying immigration, and readers interested in serious current affairs.
Author : Tony Blair
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 34,2 MB
Release : 2004-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813342351
New Britain presents Tony Blair on all the major debates of British public life: from nationalized health care to crime prevention, from the welfare state to monetary policy, from religion to family values, from individualism to isolationism, from taxation to trade unions, from NATO to Northern Ireland, from community rebirth to economic growth. After seventeen years of Conservative Party rule under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, a change in Great Britain's leadership appears imminent. In Blair's Stakeholder Nation, government works in partnership with private and voluntary sectors to harness the pawer of the market to serve the public interest. In New Britain, we read in Blair's own articulate words how to improve the standard of living of all Britain's families; how to base a new social order on merit, commitment, and inclusion; how to decentralize British institutions of political power; and how to expand Britain's leadership in foreign affairs.
Author : Tony Blair
Publisher : Hutchinson Radius
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Ex-prime ministers
ISBN : 9780091925567
In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end 18 years of Conservative government. He has been one of the most dynamic leaders of modern times; few British prime ministers have shaped the nation's course as profoundly as Blair during his ten years in power, and his achievements and his legacy will be debated for years to come. Now his memoirs reveal in intimate detail this unique political and personal journey, providing an insight into the man, the politician and the statesman, and charting successes, controversies and disappointments with an extraordinary candour.
Author : Anthony Seldon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139449021
Tony Blair's strong start to his third term, with his role in capturing the Olympic Games for Britain, his statesman-like handling of the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on London, his promise of a new start to the European Union and his leadership of the G8 summit at Gleneagles, has brought his relatively lacklustre second term into sharp relief. The second term should have been the time when New Labour fulfilled its manifesto promises. So what changed between 2001 and 2005 and what was achieved? How far was Blair himself responsible, and what was Gordon Brown's influence? What was the impact of the Iraq war? And what of Blair's policy towards Europe? Anthony Seldon and Dennis Kavanagh gather together leading academics and journalists to provide an authoritative assessment of Blair's second term, including a review of New Labour in government from 1997 to the present.
Author : Anthony Seldon
Publisher :
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 38,68 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
When Tony Blair entered Downing Street on 2 May 1997 Britain seemed a different place. On that brilliant spring day the country suddenly appeared fresher, brighter -- a marked contrast to the greyness of the dog days of the Major government. That early optimism was in large part a reaction to the personality of Blair himself. The acceptable face of a Labour Party he had already modernised beyond recognition, his charisma and drive won two successive three-figure majorities. But with the triumphs have come allegations of arrogance, of hubris. Was this an inevitable consequence of supreme, almost presidential power, or were these traits always there? We know Blair is a religious man, but what really motivates him? Rejecting the constraints of formal biography, Anthony Seldon has produced a profile of the Prime Minister that rewrites the bibliography of Blair studies. career and the key advisers he has courted so ardently, it assesses the Blair psychology in all its forms, including his pathological fear of alienating middle-class voters and his unprecedented contempt for the media. Gripping and revelatory, it is a major book about the man who has shaped modern Britain.
Author : M. Beech
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230584373
Evaluates the Blair government from 1997-2007 conducting high quality research into aspects of British politics with particular emphasis on parties, policies and ideologies. With contributions from key figures in the field further topics include New Labour's record on social policy, defence policy, constitutional reform and public expenditure.
Author : Jonathan Bailey
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1409437361
En række afhandlinger baseret på britiske ledende officerers erfaringer fra operationer, udført under krige britiske tropper har deltaget i efter afslutningen af den kolde krig i den periode, Tony Blair var britisk statsminmister. Vægten er lagt på krigene i Irak og Afghanistan. Konflikterne og krigene var i høj grad udfordrende for de officer, der førte de britiske enheder. Man var nødt til at revidere koncepter og doktriner gældende under den kolde krig, for at kunne leve op til krav, der stilles til militær indsats i nutiden.
Author : Andrew McDonald
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 19,77 MB
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0520098625
"First [originally] published in Great Britain in 2007 by Politico's Publishing ..."--Title page verso.
