Questions of war were not central to the founding of the Labour
Party, yet questions of war - specifically, under what
circumstances the party would support the dispatch of British
military forces to fight abroad - have divided and damaged the
party throughout its history more deeply than any other single
issue.
The Labour Party, War and International Relations, 1945-2006
opens by identifying and examining the factors that have influenced
the party's thinking about war, before considering the post-1945
Cold War context and analyzing a range of cases:
- the Korean War
- the party's response to the 1956 Suez crisis
- the Wilson government's approach to the Vietnam War
- Labour's response to the 1982 invasion of the Falkland
Islands
- the crisis over the August 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait,
culminating in the 1991 war
- the wars of the 1990s over Bosnia and Kosovo
- the case for war in Iraq developed by the Blair government
during 2002-03.
This is a timely book that both illuminates approaches to past
wars and helps us understand the basis of current military
commitments. As such it will be of great interest to students
across courses in politics, history, and war studies.
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