Author profile: Stephen Dyson

Stephen Benedict Dyson is associate professor of political science at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Blair Identity: Leadership and Foreign Policy and the forthcoming Leaders in Conflict: Bush and Rumsfeld in Iraq (both Manchester University Press).

Conviction Foreign Policy: Thatcher and Blair Compared

Stephen Dyson • Apr 30 2013 • Articles

Both Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair can be described as implementing conviction foreign policies. This is a product of their temperament and characterised by relentless certainty.

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