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Gordon Brown has explicitly sought to distance his foreign policy from Tony Blair's - has ethical foreign policy ended with Blair's departure or will Brown take up the liberal internationalist mantel? What was ethical foreign policy anyway? If the essence of liberal internationalism is foreign policy driven by morality rather than interests, has Brown already adopted it with his highly moralised policies towards Africa and promises to re-focus British foreign policy on climate change and the provision of free primary school education within the poorest countries? The aim of this panel is to provide both a critical retrospective on Blair's ethical foreign policy and to consider the future of ethical foreign policy under Brown. What exactly was at stake in the argument between liberal internationalist critics of the Iraq intervention and Blair? Why do those most critical of Iraq call for intervention in Darfur and Zimbabwe and hold up interventions in Kosovo
(1999) and Sierra Leone (2000) as 'true' ethical foreign policy, examples of war fought not for narrow national interests but, as Blair argued in his
1999 'Chicago Speech', for values? In a time when DFID receives three times more funding than the Foreign Office how should we think about foreign policy anyway? To what extent can foreign policy be reshaped around moral aims? What does the moralization of foreign policy say about politics today?
Other international relations debates at the Battle of Ideas
The Battle for Africa Saving Africa: The West's new moral mission?
Corruptababble: Film and Q&A
The new Silk Road or Scramble for Africa?: What does China mean for the sub-Saharan continent?
Other development and international relations debates Iraq: what now for the war on terror?
China’s future: continuing dynamism or impending chaos?
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