Offers a challenging perspective on the nature of history by analysing the character, role, functioning and wider uses of historiography. Taking British policies towards European integration since the Second World War as a case study, this book demonstrates how its interpretation and reportage over time is subject to changing trends.
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. -- .
Written in a straightforward and clear style, this course companion is designed to augment, rather than replace, existing textbooks for the course and provides easy access to the key theories in international relations.