Honeyman, V orcid.org/0000-0003-2084-1395 (2019) New Labour's Overseas Development and Aid Policy - Charity or Self-Interest? Contemporary British History, 33 (3). pp. 313-335. ISSN 1361-9462
Abstract
Robin Cook argued that New Labour’s foreign policy would have ‘ethical dimensions’ , and an assumption is often made, within existing literature, that this is an accurate statement when considering the overseas development agenda of New Labour government’s between 1997 and 2010. Tingley argues that the more left wing a party, the more likely they are to increase attention on, and funding of, overseas development aid projects. This article uses the New Labour governments, from 1997 to 2010, as a case study to test the argument of Tingley and determines that his conclusions are accurate in the case of the UK. This article will then argue, using the work of Breuning that the motivations of the New Labour governments, and the way they conveyed their policy to the electorate changed over time rather than remaining morally focused for the duration of their time in power. By focusing on the rhetoric of the Labour Party, the changes in motivation can be identified in the period 1997-2010, with a distinct move from moral justifications to more self-interested pragmatic reasoning, which confirms Breuning’s argument.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Contemporary British History. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Blair; Brown; Breuning; Overseas Development Aid; New Labour |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 05 Nov 2018 14:32 |
Last Modified: | 03 May 2020 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13619462.2018.1544498 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:138038 |