Labour’s Ballistic Missile Defence Policy 1997-2010: A Strategic Relational Analysis

This book uses the Strategic-Relational Approach to explain how the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown integrated the United Kingdom into the US Ballistic Missile Defence systemto maintain national security and to uphold the ’Special Relationship’ whilst recognising that voters were in general opposed to missile defence.

Dr James Simpkin is a tutor at Craven College, North Yorkshire. He gained his PhD from the University of Leeds in 2021. His research interests are focused on ballistic missile defence in a British context and its impact on Labour Party defence policy. He lives with his family in Keighley, West Yorkshire.