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Decision making in the Iraq war 2003 an analytical study of tony Blair's foreign policy
مقدم أطروحة جامعية
مشرف أطروحة جامعية
أعضاء اللجنة
الجامعة
جامعة بيرزيت
الكلية
كلية الآداب
القسم الأكاديمي
دائرة العلوم الاجتماعية و السلوكية
دولة الجامعة
فلسطين (الضفة الغربية)
الدرجة العلمية
ماجستير
تاريخ الدرجة العلمية
2006
الملخص الإنجليزي
On 15 February 2003, more than one million people had taken to the streets of London to protest against the prospect of war.
Later that month, British Prime Minister Tony Blair faced the largest parliamentary rebellion in over a hundred years where 121 of his Lab our Party colleagues voted against the government’s policy of support for US military action against Iraq.
Blair has faced a fierce opposition from Britain’s major partners in Europe-France and Germany-who believed that the unilateral decision of Blair’s government to go to war has undermined Britain’s pivotal role of providing a bridge of understanding between Europe and the United States and damaged the multilateral approach to world problems.
Prime Minister Blair even faced personal attacks in the media which threatened his political survival.
Facing such constraints, it would have been conceivable if the Blair-led government had taken a less determined position on Iraq.
But that was not the case.
Ignoring the UN, the public, the party, the parliament, and the EU partners, Blair decided enthusiastically to join the war, not only verbally but militarily.
In an attempt to explain Blair’s foreign policy decision making in the Iraq War 2003, I recall the underpinnings of Tony Blair’s Third Way Lab our (New labor) which I expect to assist me in understanding Blair’s decision.
Principles of humanitarian intervention, international community, multilaterals and interconnectedness between domestic and foreign policies resonated in his New Labour discourse.
Putting these principles into the Iraq war test, I discovered an exacerbating gulf between this policy and Blair’s actual political action on the ground.
Faced with a challenging dilemma and trying to understand that dilemma, I formulated the thesis hypothesis which stated that Blair used the New Labour teachings in his discourse to knit a list of pretexts and justifications in an attempt to manipulate his public, party members, and parliament into believing in the legality of the war.
This in turn would conceal the real reasons of intervention behind a screen of pluralist and moral rhetoric devising evidence to support decisions that had already been agreed upon especially at the level of Blair-Bush.
Methodologically and through the use of both primary and secondary data, I exploited three international relations perspectives suggested by a first analysis of Blair’s New Labour Policy and discourse.
These are normative, pluralist and realist perspectives.
Both the first and second perspectives failed to unravel the dilemma and explain Blair’s decision in the Iraq war due to the fact that the actual performance on the ground violated the moral values of peace, human rights, and democracy.
It also undermined the credibility of the UN as an international organization, damaged the multilateral approach to world issues and neglected (through Blair’s prime ministerial style of leadership) both the public and parliament ; the very basis of a democratic nation.
The thesis then, through relating the resultant hypothesis with the assumptions of the realist school of thought mainly band wagering, public opinion and power of interests, contends that Blair’s real motivation behind the Iraq war was advancement of British interests through tightening the relationship with the US hegemon .
These interests are composed but not limited to the nuclear build-up (and what relates to Britain’ security and survival), unrestricted flow of oil (and what relates to Britain’s economic and industrial prosperity), and Britain’s influential role in the international arena as a pivotal power.
التخصصات الرئيسية
الموضوعات
عدد الصفحات
118
قائمة المحتويات
Table of contents.
Abstract.
Chapter One : introduction.
Chapter Two : british foreign policy under Blair.
Chapter Three : realist school of thought.
Chapter Four : a realist explanation of Blair's decision making in the Iraq war 2003.
Chapter Five : a literature review of the realist reading of Blair's decision making in the Iraq war.
Conclusions, Recommendation.
References.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
Dar Tawil, Nur T.. (2006). Decision making in the Iraq war 2003 an analytical study of tony Blair's foreign policy. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Birzeit University, Palestine (West Bank)
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-302443
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
Dar Tawil, Nur T.. Decision making in the Iraq war 2003 an analytical study of tony Blair's foreign policy. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Birzeit University. (2006).
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-302443
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
Dar Tawil, Nur T.. (2006). Decision making in the Iraq war 2003 an analytical study of tony Blair's foreign policy. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Birzeit University, Palestine (West Bank)
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-302443
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
نوع البيانات
رسائل جامعية
رقم السجل
BIM-302443
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