Capitalising upon Globalisation

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474423564.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

David M. Webber

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

Foreign Policy ◽

International Development ◽

Macroeconomic Policy ◽

Domestic Policy ◽

Policy Decisions ◽

Gordon Brown ◽

Development Policies ◽

At Home

Having mapped out in the previous chapter, New Labour’s often contradictory and even ‘politically-convenient’ understanding of globalisation, chapter 3 offers analysis of three key areas of domestic policy that Gordon Brown would later transpose to the realm of international development: (i) macroeconomic policy, (ii) business, and (iii) welfare. Since, according to Brown at least, globalisation had resulted in a blurring of the previously distinct spheres of domestic and foreign policy, it made sense for those strategies and policy decisions designed for consumption at home to be transposed abroad. The focus of this chapter is the design of these three areas of domestic policy; the unmistakeable imprint of Brown in these areas and their place in building of New Labour’s political economy. Strikingly, Brown’s hand in these policies and the themes that underpinned them would again reappear in the international development policies explored in much greater detail later in the book.

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A World of Challenge and Opportunity

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474423564.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

David M. Webber

Keyword(s):

International Development ◽

Global Economy ◽

New Labour ◽

Domestic Policy ◽

Government Officials ◽

Gordon Brown ◽

Development Policies ◽

The World ◽

Golden Opportunity ◽

The Right

Since it was globalisation that, in part at least, necessitated the break from ‘old Labour’, chapter 2 begins by locating the New Labour project within the context of the global economy, and the various ways in which the perceived realities of ‘globalisation’ were internalised and articulated by various government officials. The place of Gordon Brown, this chapter argues, was crucial in this. His role as architect-in-chief of the New Labour project reveals an interesting paradox at the heart of the party’s thinking and discourse regarding globalisation. For while colleagues frequently viewed globalisation as a constraint upon what was politically possible, Brown actually saw it as representing a golden opportunity for Britain and its place in the world provided it was managed in the right way. This understanding would shape Brown’s redesign of Britain’s macroeconomic architecture, New Labour’s claim as the ‘new party of business’, and the recasting of its welfare strategy. With his influence writ large on each of these three areas of domestic policy, this would extend into the international development policies that Brown would design and oversee, and that the latter chapters of this book explore in greater detail.

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Building a ‘New Jerusalem’

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474423564.003.0004 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

David M. Webber

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

International Development ◽

Global Governance ◽

Development Policy ◽

Washington Consensus ◽

New Jerusalem ◽

Gordon Brown ◽

Lock In ◽

Governance Arrangements

Chapter 4 focuses upon the institutional framework that Gordon Brown and his chief economic advisor, Ed Balls, put in place to make the Treasury the pilot agency of New Labour’s political economy. Insofar as the newly established Department for International Development (DFID) was concerned, this would ensure that it was the Chancellor, rather than the Secretary of State for International Development who would design New Labour’s international development policy. Yet the role that the Treasury played in ‘internationalising’ New Labour’s domestic political economy went beyond the conquest of other Whitehall departments. Brown took the macroeconomic blueprint – the ‘new economic architecture’ – that he had mapped out at home, to a number of key international financial actors abroad. This blueprint would create, in Brown’s mind, ‘a new Jerusalem’, a biblical phrase that the Chancellor used to describe the vision that he had of a world free from poverty, debt and disease. Embedding this vision into the orthodoxy of the ‘post-Washington Consensus’, Brown wanted to maintain not only a clear transmission of policy but also a distinct institutional ‘lock-in’, and a set of global governance arrangements that would provide the framework for the policies explored in the following three case study chapters.

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International Migration, International Relations and Foreign Policy

International Migration Review ◽

10.1177/019791838902300315 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 681-708 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Christopher Mitchell

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

Foreign Policy ◽

International Relations ◽

International Political Economy ◽

Domestic Policy ◽

International Comparative ◽

State Entry ◽

State Relations ◽

Global Systems ◽

Policy Setting

Recent literature on migration, international relations and foreign policy is reviewed in this article, stressing applications of global systems paradigms, studies of state entry and exit rules, and anatomies of domestic policy-setting processes on migration. After a concise assessment of the contemporary theory of global political economy, the paper argues for seeking midrange generalizations on the international relations of migration. It also suggests that analysis begin with the policy-setting processes of the state. Especially through the use of comparative perspectives available from domestic policymaking studies and from the field of international comparative public policy, this approach offers the opportunity to fix empirically the political roles of transnational social forces, which often present themselves as participants in domestic policy contests. Promising future directions in the study of state-to-state relations are also evaluated, with the anticipation that verifying regional or other intermediate patterns of world migration politics may contribute to more general theories of international political economy.

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Hegemonic Disarray—American Internationalisms and World Disorder

10.1093/oso/9780198828945.003.0011 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Daniel Deudney

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Cold War ◽

Middle East ◽

International Order ◽

The World ◽

The Usa ◽

The Cold War ◽

At Home

The end of the Cold War left the USA as uncontested hegemon and shaper of the globalization and international order. Yet the international order has been unintentionally but repeatedly shaken by American interventionism and affronts to both allies and rivals. This is particularly the case in the Middle East as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as the nuclear negotiations with Iran show. Therefore, the once unquestioned authority and power of the USA have been challenged at home as well as abroad. By bringing disorder rather than order to the world, US behavior in these conflicts has also caused domestic exhaustion and division. This, in turn, has led to a more restrained and as of late isolationist foreign policy from the USA, leaving the role as shaper of the international order increasingly to others.

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Internationalization at Home

International Journal of Educational Reform ◽

10.1177/105678791702600201 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 104-122 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Sheena Choi ◽

Joseph Khamalah

Keyword(s):

Global Economy ◽

Education Institution ◽

The United States ◽

Intercultural Understanding ◽

Global Era ◽

Development Policies ◽

Internationalization At Home ◽

Staff Recruitment ◽

Midwestern City ◽

At Home

Responding to the needs of intercultural understanding and competencies in a global economy, universities have devised strategies and programs to internationalize the campus to prepare students to work effectively in an increasingly interconnected economy and society. Internationalization at home (IaH) attempts to more effectively address gaps left by the traditional study abroad. This study examines the IaH activities at a regional higher education institution in a Midwestern city of the United States in faculty/staff recruitment and development, policies, and curriculum development. Results show that implementation of IaH is at odds with the institution's regional mission and underscores the need for a reconceptualization to better serve the region in this global era.

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