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Tony Blair’s Vietnam: The Iraq War and the ‘special relationship’ in historical perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2007

ALEX DANCHEV
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Abstract

This article examines Tony Blair’s policy and posture on Iraq through the prism of the special relationship in which he was reared. At the same time, it examines his policy and posture on the special relationship through the prism of Iraq. In this context it proposes a Vietnam analogy of a kind, with reference to Blair’s white-hot predecessor Harold Wilson: a curious affinity of fate – disenchantment, disgrace, and moral ruination.

Type
Research Article
Information
Review of International Studies , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 189 - 203
Copyright
Copyright © British International Studies Association 2007

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