Blair's Wars

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Simon and Schuster, 2003 - Всего страниц: 367
A riveting and thought-provoking insight into the processes by which Tony Blair has taken us to war more often than any other recent Prime Minister. No Prime Minister in modern times has led Britain into as many wars as Tony Blair. In six years in office he has committed soldiers to action in Kosovo, in Operation Desert Fox against Iraq, in Sierra Leone and Afghanistan -- and now he is making preparations for a final battle with Saddam Hussein. It has been a dramatic course of action for a man who, until he won the 1997 General Election, showed only a rudimentary understanding of the workings of foreign policy. Combining page-turning narrative and revelation with an analysis of the philosophy underlying his adventures abroad, BLAIR's WARS shows how this government has sought to be at the forefront of a new and turbulent world order. Putting the reader into the 'smoke-filled rooms' of Whitehall and Washington where the real decision-making takes place, John Kampfner draws on his unparalleled contacts within and outside government to provide a compelling account of the tensions, rivalries, deal-making and back-stabbing that have accompanied inexorable acquisition of foreign-policy co

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Travelling Light
3
Fox in the Desert
18
Most Moral of Wars?
36
White Mans Burden
62
Unlikely Friends
78
Scars and Traumas
107
Walking Away
129
Evil Axis
152
The UN Route
191
Could We Not Disagree a Bit More?
223
Old and New
238
Trust Me
255
Liberation Not Occupation
310
Repairing the Damage
329
Bibliography
352
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Mapping the Road
174

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