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Sidekick - Bulldog to Lapdog - British Global Strategy from Churchill to Blair (Paperback)
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Everyone is still asking: Why did Britain go to war in Iraq? Why
did Prime Minister Blair support America at every turn? How has the
bulldog become a lapdog? And, is Britain now forever just a part of
the American empire? In his new book Sidekick Stephen Haseler
answers these highly topical and urgent questions. Drawing on
research over many years, and on his own experiences in public life
on both sides of the Atlantic in London and Washington think-tanks,
he outlines the key reasons for Britain's supine attitude towards
the USA. Dr. Haseler suggests that it was Tony Blair's desperate
need to become a 'celebrity world leader' that led him to become a
'sidekick' to America. He shows how this British 'sidekick'
strategy goes back to 1940, and even beyond. And he also shows how
the 'lingering imperial illusions' of Britain's official class has
led them into becoming a subaltern of Washington in the American
empire; and how Whitehall special interests - in the intelligence
services and the military - are no longer independent, but serve
this empire. Sidekick amounts to a history of how a whole post-war
British political generation has turned Britain into a virtual
province of the American empire - and in the process shunned
improving our relationship with Europe. Finally, he argues that in
the new century Britain needs to make a choice between, on the one
hand, continuing in 'the unhealthy' relationship with Washington,
and, on the other, making a real contribution to building Europe.
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