The Labour Party, Denis Healey and the International Socialist Movement
Title | The Labour Party, Denis Healey and the International Socialist Movement PDF eBook |
Author | Ettore Costa (storico.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 333 |
Release | 2018 |
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The Labour Party, Denis Healey and the International Socialist Movement
Title | The Labour Party, Denis Healey and the International Socialist Movement PDF eBook |
Author | Ettore Costa |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2018-05-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 331977347X |
This book describes how, after the Second World War, the Labour Party assumed leadership of the International Socialist Movement, thanks to the achievements of the Attlee Government. International Secretary Denis Healey guided the reconstruction of the Socialist International through the early Cold War, making the British vision for socialist internationalism prevail over the French and Belgian. At first, the provisional Socialist International (International Socialist Conference and Comisco) supported cohabitation with pro-communist socialists and the USSR, but with the Sovietisation of Eastern Europe it committed to militant anti-communism. Ambiguity between the Labour Party and Labour Government influenced British policy in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy and Poland, while the characterization and stereotypes of Eastern and Southern Europe shaped the language and actions of the British. Furthermore, the book shows how international contacts and the British and Swedish model encouraged the transition of socialist parties to responsible government parties fully embracing Western democracy and prepared the ideological revision of the 1950s.
The Labour Party and Foreign Policy
Title | The Labour Party and Foreign Policy PDF eBook |
Author | John Callaghan |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2007-04-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1134540167 |
This book provides a penetrating new study of the Labour Party’s thinking on international relations, which probes the past, present and future of the party’s approach to the international stage. The foreign policy of the Labour Party is not only neglected in most histories of the party, it is also often considered in isolation from the party’s origins, evolution and major domestic preoccupations. Yet nothing has been more divisive and more controversial in Labour’s history than the party’s foreign and defence policies and their relationship to its domestic programme. Much more has turned on this than the generation of tempestuous conference debates. Labour’s credentials as a credible prospect for Governmental office were thought to depend on a responsible approach to foreign and defence policy. Its exclusion from office was often said to stem from a failure to meet this test, as in the 1950s. The composition of Labour Cabinets was powerfully influenced by foreign and defence considerations, as was the centralization of power and decision-making within Labour Governments. The domestic achievements and failures of these periods in office were inextricably connected to international questions. The Labour Party and Foreign Policy is recommended for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in British politics and European history.
Denis Healey and the Policies of Power
Title | Denis Healey and the Policies of Power PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Reed |
Publisher | London : Sidgwick and Jackson |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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The Labour Party and the world, volume 1
Title | The Labour Party and the world, volume 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Rhiannon Vickers |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2013-07-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1847795943 |
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This is the first comprehensive study of the political ideology and history of the Labour Party's world-view and foreign policy. It argues that the development of Labour's foreign policy perspective should be seen not as the development of a socialist foreign policy but as an application of the ideas of liberal internationalism. The first volume outlines and assesses the early development and evolution of Labour's world-view. It then follows the course of the Labour party's foreign policy during a tumultuous period on the international stage, including the First World War, the Russian Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, the build up to and violent reality of the Second World War, and the start of the Cold War. This highly readable book provides an excellent analysis of Labour's foreign policy during the period in which Labour experienced power for the first time.
The Labour Party and the world, volume 2
Title | The Labour Party and the world, volume 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Rhiannon Vickers |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 413 |
Release | 2013-07-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1847795951 |
This is the second book in a unique two-volume study tracing the evolution of the Labour Party’s foreign policy throughout the 20th century to the present date. This is the first comprehensive study of the history of the Labour Party’s worldview and foreign policy. It argues that Labour’s foreign policy perspective should be seen not as the development of a socialist foreign policy, but as an application of the ideas of liberal internationalism. Volume Two provides a critical analysis of Labour’s foreign policy since 1951. It examines Labour’s attempts to rethink foreign policy, focusing on intra-party debates, the problems that Labour faced when in power, and the conflicting pressures from party demands and external pressures. It examines attitudes to rearmament in the 1950s, the party’s response to the Suez crisis and the Vietnam War, the bitter divisions over nuclear disarmament and the radicalisation of foreign and defence policy in the 1980s. It also examines Labour’s desire to provide moral leadership to the rest of the world. The last two chapters focus on the Blair and Brown years, with Blair’s response to the Kosovo crisis, to 9/11 and his role in the ‘war on terror’. Whereas Blair’s approach to foreign affairs was to place emphasis on the efficacy of the use of military force, Brown’s approach instead placed faith in the use of economic measures. This highly readable book provides an excellent analysis of Labour’s foreign policy. It is essential reading for students of British politics, the Labour Party, and foreign policy.
Labour's Decline and the Social Democrat's Fall
Title | Labour's Decline and the Social Democrat's Fall PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Lee Williams |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Political Science |
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This book traces the decline of the Labour Party's popularity and the development of the Social Democratic party. The authors have also written "Crisis in European Defence" and "The European Defence Initiative: Europe's Bid for Equality".