PLEASE NOTE this is a 2013 reading list—the precise content may change in future years.
Term 1, Week 2
Analysing the war on terror (powerpoint) (video 2012)
1. What are the key methodological problems involved in analysing Britain's role in the war on
terror?
2. In what ways can these problems be addressed?
Core
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Hudson, V. M. (2005), 'Foreign Policy Analysis: Actor-Specific Theory and the Ground of
International Relations',Foreign Policy Analysis, 1(1): 1-30.
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Kampfner, J. (2004). Blair's Wars. Free Press, London.
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Kettell, S. (2006), Dirty Politics?, Zed, London. (chapter 1)
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Kettell, S. (2011), New Labour and the New World Order: Britain's Role in the War on Terror,
MUP, Manchester.
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Naughtie, J. (2004), The Accidental American: Tony Blair and the Presidency, Pan, London.
Supplementary
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Blair, T. (2010), A Journey, Hutchinson, London. (Chapter 11).
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Dyson, S. (2006), 'Personality and Foreign Policy: Tony Blair's Iraq Decisions', Foreign Policy
Analysis, 2: 289-306.
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Gamble, A. (2002), 'Political Memoirs', British Journal of Politics and International Relations,
4(1): 141-51.
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Hay, C. (2002), Political Analysis, Palgrave, Basingstoke. (Chapters 3 and 6).
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Kettell, S. (2008), 'The curious incident of the dog that didn't bark in the nighttime: structure
and agency in Britain's war with Iraq', Politics and Policy, 37(2).
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Marsh, D. and Stoker, G. (eds.) (2010), Theory and Methods in Political Science, Palgrave,
Basingstoke (especially, D. Marsh and G. Stoker, 'Introduction', and F. Devine, 'Qualitative
Methods').