http://www.entangledalliances.com/2009/03/g20-preview-gordon-and-goliath/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:14:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.entangledalliances.com/2009/03/g20-preview-gordon-and-goliath/comment-page-1/#comment-238 London’s Not Calling | Entangled Alliances Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:16:10 +0000 http://www.entangledalliances.com/?p=904#comment-238 [...] Interestingly, McGuire’s comparisons are not just historical, but allude to a Britain in decline while other countries rise from the ashes of their own recent past and, as a corollary, to a Prime Minister engaging in “Jeeves” diplomacy, evidently desperate to bask in the Obamian glow for a chance of electoral salvation.  This, we understand, in contrast to the optimistic verve of the Clinton-Blair “special relationship” (of which we are reminded by this weekend’s Progressive Governance Conference, a Clinton-Blair brainchild of 1999, and the announcement of a new Peter Morgan film).  Today, no more British bridge between the indispensable American nation and an idealistic integrationist Europe, but a country trapped in outdated alliance frameworks while Europe looks inward and America looks East (as the positioning before this week’s G20 summit has shown). [...] [...] Interestingly, McGuire’s comparisons are not just historical, but allude to a Britain in decline while other countries rise from the ashes of their own recent past and, as a corollary, to a Prime Minister engaging in “Jeeves” diplomacy, evidently desperate to bask in the Obamian glow for a chance of electoral salvation.  This, we understand, in contrast to the optimistic verve of the Clinton-Blair “special relationship” (of which we are reminded by this weekend’s Progressive Governance Conference, a Clinton-Blair brainchild of 1999, and the announcement of a new Peter Morgan film).  Today, no more British bridge between the indispensable American nation and an idealistic integrationist Europe, but a country trapped in outdated alliance frameworks while Europe looks inward and America looks East (as the positioning before this week’s G20 summit has shown). [...]

]]> http://www.entangledalliances.com/2009/03/g20-preview-gordon-and-goliath/comment-page-1/#comment-190 Fiddling while Rome burns: Britain’s missing stimulus | Entangled Alliances Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:57:23 +0000 http://www.entangledalliances.com/?p=904#comment-190 [...] G20 summit is going to be very interesting indeed.  As Mark Bailey reported in his recent post “G20 Preview: Gordon and Goliath”, Gordon Brown and Barack Obama are both calling for a global fiscal stimulus. The likes of France [...] [...] G20 summit is going to be very interesting indeed.  As Mark Bailey reported in his recent post “G20 Preview: Gordon and Goliath”, Gordon Brown and Barack Obama are both calling for a global fiscal stimulus. The likes of France [...]

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