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Article: Britain and the world: Ambiguous Albion.(Gordon Brown's foreign policy )
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 28, 2008
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Gordon Brown's foreign policy is timid and unclear
SO MUCH that has transpired during Gordon Brown's first year as prime minister has been unexpected. A politician renowned for strategic cunning has erred repeatedly (most famously over whether to call a snap election last autumn) and now languishes in the polls; an intellectual with an eye for the big picture still lacks a theme for his government, or even a signature reform. Less surprising, perhaps, is that foreign policy has not played the vaulting role in his premiership that it did under Tony Blair, his predecessor, whose time on the world stage included five wars, the pronouncement of a radical doctrine of ...