Who will shape the world after Bush?

Foreign policy has been deeply controversial, particularly since September 11th 2001 and the Iraq war. Will new political leadership in Britain, the United States, France and elsewhere provide an opportunity for new thinking or for more of the same?

This strand of work will address the foreign policy lessons of the last decade, and assess the shifting 21st century world order. But our focus will be on how the internationalist left can propose constructive solutions to major global challenges.

What practical agenda should those who believe we need multilateral solutions to global problems be pursuing? What can Britain and the EU do to make these possible?

What will this mean in practice on the biggest questions – such as climate change, global poverty and development, security, Middle East peace and migration?

Can diplomacy and democracy mix? What would a more democratic and ethical foreign policy involve?

The Fabian New Year Conference in January 2008 will be one of the largest public conferences on foreign policy ever held in Britain, providing a focal point for this strand of our work, following a series of events and publications across 2007.

To discuss working with the Fabian Society in this area or dicuss future Fabian work on international issues, please contact Tim Gore.

Publications

• How Peace Broke Out in the Middle East: A short history of the future
• 2025: What next for the Make Poverty History generation?
• Summer 2006: The World After Bush
• Sunder Katwala: The World After Bush
• Trumpets Round the City Walls
• Just World
• The Making of Europe's Constitution
• Progressive Globalisation

Events

• New Year Conference 2008: Change the World
• What do Iran's democrats want from us?
• Peter Mandelson lecture: a New Consensus for Europe

News

• Brown commits to Iraq inquiry "to learn all possible lessons"
• Sunder Katwala: a foreign policy that went astray
• Europe after UKIP