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‘I’m Proud of the British Empire’: Why Tony Blair Backs George W. Bush
Author(s) -
PARMAR INDERJEET
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the political quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-923X
pISSN - 0032-3179
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-923x.2005.00674.x
Subject(s) - george (robot) , dominance (genetics) , restructuring , administration (probate law) , british empire , foreign policy , order (exchange) , imperial unit system , empire , law , political science , sociology , politics , economic history , history , art history , economics , biochemistry , chemistry , finance , gene
This article considers the three main reasons behind Tony Blair's support for the post‐9/11 foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration, especially the war on Iraq: first, Blair is on a neo‐imperial mission, with deep roots in his personal development, to re‐order the world to better suit British interests; secondly, Bush and Blair independently agree that the post‐1989 period represents wasted time, years of drift that could have been used to press home Anglo‐American dominance; and thirdly, an agreement that 9/11 opened the space for a radical restructuring of international relations and the setting of a more interventionist global agenda.