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Profiles politicians, celebrities, military personnel and others who made a difference in 2003. Victory of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger in the October 2003 California recall election for governor; Why British Prime Minister Tony Blair supported the U.S. in the Iraq War; How Jessica Lynch inspires by giving credit to others; The heavy responsibility of L. Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq; Role of retired army doctor Jiang Yanyong in revealing China's cover-up of the SARS epidemic; Others, including Kim Jong Il, Vladimir Putin and Lebron James.

In this article the author examines the impact of the Iraq War on British politics. The article is written in 2008 on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the start of the war. The author suggests that the war has reduced international respect for Great Britain and has coarsened domestic political discourse. He states that the war caused the government of prime minister Tony Blair to cede control of British foreign policy to the United States.

The article reports on the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Tony Blair. The author focuses on the end of Blair's term and the toll the Iraq War has taken on his legacy. His association with U.S. President George W. Bush and a scandal involving Britain's Labor Party have dropped his approval rating to twenty-six percent. Blair's future career plans are also discussed.

This article describes the implications of the Iraqi War for the administration of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his plans for Great Britain after war. What distinguished Great Britain from the rest of Europe during the Iraq crisis was that it not only gave verbal support to the United States throughout the crisis, but that it was willing to make a large military contribution to the war. Blair never opposed the use of force to eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. However, he did differ from the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush in clearly indicating that the elimination of such weapons, not regime change, was the goal. The dominant reason for Blair's commitment to U.S. policy on Iraq was his moral perspective on international politics. The Iraqi crisis challenged the cornerstone of the grand strategy of Blair--that Great Britain could act as the bridge between the U.S. and Europe. It damaged the relationship with France established by Blair in 1998. Great Britain, as France saw it, stood in the way of unity in Europe. It raised questions about the relationship of Great Britain with the U.S. and it even threatened the survival of Blair's premiership. The Iraq crisis proved that in order to influence Europe effectively, Great Britain must fully affirm its identity as part of Europe, and the Blair program toward Europe must be completed.

The article discusses efforts by British prime minister Gordon Brown to subtly distance Great Britain from U.S. President George W. Bush. Brown, in the early days of his premiership, has maintained that the special relationship between Great Britain and the U.S. remains intact, but some of his cabinet members have made statements criticizing U.S. policies. Brown's predecessor, Tony Blair, saw his reputation and popularity suffer for aligning himself too closely with an unpopular President Bush.

The article comments on the decision of British Prime Minister Tony Blair to support U.S. President George W. Bush's declaration of war against Iraq. Blair failed to get the United Nations sanction and had to convince the British House of Commons that the war against Iraq was not only inevitable but also justified, despite the absence of UN sanction.

The article reports on the stand of Great Britain on the war in Iraq. Great Britain has long been opposing wars started by the U.S. until British Prime Minister Tony Blair made his statement on the television of David Frost. Blair said that he will support the U.S. in the Iraq war despite possible sanctions from the United Nations. Blair is also said to have a close relationship with the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush. Blair's decision to support the war in Iraq might split his Labour Party.

Relates the difficulties experienced by U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair in persuading the United Nations (U.N.) Security Council to pass a resolution addressing Iraq's defiance. Response of other permanent members of the Security Council to Blair's dossier documenting Iraq's illegal weapons programs; Derailment of the U.S.-Great Britain strategy by Iraq's promise to allow weapons inspectors to return; Terms of the memoranda of understanding between the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and the Iraqi government; Failure of UNMOVIC head Hans Blix to prevent Iraq from pursuing a nuclear weapons program.

Explains that Great Britain Prime Minister Tony Blair's support to the plan of U.S. President George W. Bush to push for regime change in Iraq could end his political career. Percentage of the British House of Commons who are against the plan of President Bush to use force against Iraq; Dissatisfaction of the Labour Party with Prime Minister Blair's policies.

The article assesses the legacy of British Prime Minister Tony Blair after Blair's announcement of when he will step down. It looks at his early accomplishments revitalizing Great Britain's Labour Party and then leading the country as prime minister. The article attributes much of Blair's subsequent dramatic fall in popularity to his decision to join the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. His greatest achievement is seen to be his push for peace in Northern Ireland.

Focuses on the relationship between Great Britain and France, and if they will ever be able to work together again as a check on the power of the United States. Discussion of America's role, or lack of role, in several conflicts that have occurred, suggesting the United States only gets involved when it perceives a threat to its interests; Comparison of Great Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair and French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac with respect to each country's relationship with America.

Discusses the manner in which British Prime Minister Tony Blair has betrayed his goal of placing Britain at the center of European politics by supporting the plans of the United States to attack Iraq. Political consequences of this support; Progress made by Blair toward this goal prior to his support; His failure to anticipate German and French confidence in European leadership; U.S. approaches to European politics and relations; Success of European multilateralism prior to this conflict.

Examines tensions between the United States and the European nations over foreign policy, and how this has put Great Britain in the middle. How British Prime Minister Tony Blair may react to U.S. President George W. Bush, as opposed to President Bill Clinton; Question of whether Britain can have good relations with the U.S. and the European Union (EU) at the same time; Problems concerning the status of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

The article focuses on the political friendship of U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. It notes that the friendship is the axis on which the security of the West and ultimately the peace of the world turns. The author compares the friendship to that of the friendship between political leaders Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, or Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.

Presents an interview with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Role of Blair in organizing the G-8 summit of world leaders around issues of poverty in Africa; Views on cooperation between the U.S. and Great Britain in the War on Terrorism; Critique of U.S. policy on economic aid to Africa; Comments on the importance of providing aid to HIV/AIDS prevention, education, and peacekeeping forces in Africa; Reaction to the views of U.S. President George W. Bush on climate change and environmental policy; Goals for the G-8 summit.

Discusses how the Iraq War has affected British Prime Minister Tony Blair's popularity. Weapons of mass destruction that have not been found; Response of the British to the war; Argument of Blair and U.S. President George W. Bush that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction; Role of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; Likelihood of a parliamentary inquiry; Possibility that Bush and Blair torqued up weapons of mass destruction evidence; Response of Blair to accusations.

Discusses strains on the friendship between the United States and Great Britain, under pressures of a diplomatic crisis at the United Nations (UN) and an imminent war in Iraq. Conclusion by UN inspectors that U.S. and British claims about Iraq's secret nuclear program were based on forged documents; Tensions between the two countries; How U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minster Tony Blair differ on the UN process; Political outlook for Blair.

Speculates on whether Prime Minister Tony Blair can convince the British public of the necessity of military action against Iraq. Relationship between Great Britain and the U.S.; Risks from supporting the U.S., including alienating British voters and members of the Labour Party; Poll of British voters opposed to a war with Iraq; Possibility that Blair can persuade the U.S. to take its case to the United Nations for sanction.

The article focuses on the foreign policies of Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of Great Britain. Brown is notably less involved with and advocates more cautious policies than his predecessor Tony Blair. His prime focus has been issues relating to international economic development. Brown has been preoccupied by his own country's weakening economic condition and his own weakened political position.

The article reports that resigning British Prime Minister Tony Blair handed down the review of the British African policy to his successor, Gordon Brown. The passing of the policy requires a thorough review on its provisions, including its equity investment, debt instruments and direct investment. Brown's assumption of the responsibility faces a lot of challenges which is perceived by development economists on whether efficacy and ethics on foreign aid programs can be maintained.

The article considers the legacy of departing British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Blair's economic improvements, the human rights act and civil unions, self-government for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and growing internationalism are all positive relics of Blair's career. They are also all, for the moment, likely to be forgotten in the anger over the Iraq War. The article notes that Blair was ill-prepared to govern and wasted much of his first term in office.

The article reports on British Prime Minister Tony Blair's role in the world and in Great Britain. Blair's decision to stand by United States President George W. Bush and refrain from trying to rein in Israel in its conflict with Lebanon has left him looking isolated and vulnerable. Blair's foreign policy is to stay close to the U.S. and attempt to influence it in private.

Letters to the editor are presented regarding such topics as policy changes from Great Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, smoking bans in Great Britain, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, relations between Great Britain and continental Europe, and the founding of Duke University.

In this article the author discusses the state of relations between Great Britain and Germany with Thomas Matussek as he prepares to surrender his post as German ambassador to Britain in 2006. Matussek states that relations between the two countries are at their lowest since the Second World War. He notes that the once-warm friendship between Prime Minister Tony Blair and the former chancellor Gerhard Schröder deteriorated into mutual dislike over Germany's refusal to participate in the Iraq war.

Focuses on the relationship between the United States and Great Britain, and suggests it's not as close as America's relationship with Australia. Recount of a meeting between Australia's departing ambassador to the U.S., Michael Thawley, and U.S. President George W. Bush; Other high-ranking officials attending the meeting, suggesting America's growing new affection for Australia; Speculation as to why America is growing closer to Australia, noting that country's prime minister, John Howard, was in America at the time of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks; View that Tony Blair, the prime minister of Great Britain, is not as close to Bush as the Aussies; Discussion of Cherie Blair's speaking engagement at the Kennedy Center; Question as to why those high-ranking officials that met with the Aussie diplomat did not meet Blair when he arrived in America; Belittlement by the author of the Bush-Blair meeting being referred to as a "summit."

Reports on how the rise of anti-Americanism in Great Britain may effect relations between the U.S. and Great Britain. How British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a series of mistakes in presenting the case for going to war with Iraq; Claims he made that the war was legal under international laws; How the Liberal Democrat party shares anti-American feelings; How new members of the Labour Party may be hostile towards Blair for past decisions he has made.

Argues that Colombia's huge murder rate is linked to the country's regime. Suggestion that the British government finds it convenient to blame the problem on the drugs trade; Examples of human rights violations by soldiers in Colombia; Call for an investigation by the United Nations; Observation that the Colombian military and police have the worst human rights record in the western hemisphere; View that the issue of cocaine is a distraction; Excerpt from Mark Curtis' study of British foreign policy, "Unpeople"; Role of death squads linked to Colombian governments; Refusal of Prime Minister Tony Blair's government to say where most of British taxpayers' drug-related assistance money to Colombia ends up; Comments of Bill Rammell, the Foreign Office junior minister.

Looks at Great Britain's relations with Romania after the election of President Traian Basescu. Report that Basescu defeated outgoing premier Adrian Nastase in the presidential election; Description of Basescu as a left-wing politician; Potential political impact of a visit between Basescu and Great Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair in London, England; Efforts of Blair to win Basescu's support for the Iraq War; Potential impact of Basescu's policies on European politics.

Focuses on the role of British soldiers in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners during the war in Iraq. Desire of British Prime Minister Tony Blair to distance himself from United States President George W. Bush; Reference to the photographs of British soldiers abusing Iraqis; Consequences of the photographs for Blair's diplomatic ambitions; Ways in which the photographs tarnish the image of the British Army as a peacekeeping force.

Queen Elizabeth II's visit to France kicks off six months of festivities to mark the centenary of the entente cordiale, a colonial-era deal between Britain and France that ended centuries of military hostility. Tony Blair, Britain's prime minister, visits Paris next month. Jacques Chirac, the French president, goes to London in the autumn. The awkwardness is that these celebrations take place at a time when the Franco-British relationship is one of deep ambivalence. Blair is in some ways more open towards continental co-operation after losing an Atlanticist friend in Spain's José María Aznar, and with popular disillusion at home towards the Americans over Iraq. Meanwhile the French realise that the Franco-German alliance is not going to be enough to preserve their influence in the European Union (EU). Michel Barnier, their new foreign minister, was formerly a European commissioner and has greater interest in EU affairs than predecessor Dominique de Villepin. The French also know that, when forced to choose, Britain believes that its interests are best served by aligning with America. This is always going to make it an uncertain European partner.

This article focuses on the relationship between the United States and Great Britain, focusing on U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The last time an American president stayed in Buckingham Palace was 85 years ago, when Woodrow Wilson visited King George V to toast the end of the first world war. Mr. Bush's visit may have been planned with a similar aim in mind, but the continuing conflict in Iraq has limited the scope for cheers and fuelled hostility to Mr. Bush. Sceptics argue that neither Britain nor Tony Blair have gained much from the closeness between Mr. Blair and Mr. Bush. In Mr. Blair's view, it does not make sense to ask what Britain gets out of the relationship. The newly departed British ambassador to America, Sir Christopher Meyer, said this week that Britain should have been tougher over steel tariffs when it was committing itself to fighting with America in Iraq.

Argues that British Prime Minister Tony Blair should not continue his support of United States President George W. Bush. Discussion of relations between Great Britain and European countries because of the war on Iraq; Impact of Britain's support of the war on relations with Islamic countries and the developing world; View that the war was not one of liberation, but one of U.S. imperialism; Idea that Blair made a strategic error in forwarding his special relationship with then President Bill Clinton to the following administration; The impact of Blair's partnership with a right-wing government in the U.S. on leftist leaders within the European Union.

Expounds on the future of Great Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair and how it is tied to a successful military campaign in Iraq and the United States keeping its promise. Discussion of the deal U.S. President George W. Bush agreed to regarding the establishment of a Palestinian state; View that Blair's political future is tied America's behavior in the post-Iraqi war environment.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair insists that every waking hour is spent fighting to get a second United Nations (UN) resolution authorizing military action against Iraq, the onset of hostilities may come as a relief. The worst week so far of Blair's tenure in office began late on Sunday evening when Clare Short, the cabinet minister responsible for dispensing Britain's overseas aid budget, said on a radio program that if Britain joined America in attacking Iraq without a second resolution, she would quit the government. Despite one of the most flagrant breaches of cabinet collective responsibility in recent memory, Short neither resigned nor got fired. While loyalist ministers lined up to express poorly feigned surprise at Short's timing and self-indulgence, the British government insisted that the prime minister was too busy telephoning world leaders about that second UN resolution to deal with Short just yet. More and more, Blair looked like a man caught between growing American impatience with its ally's frenzied but fruitless diplomacy, and the determination of the French and Russians to shoot down any compromise proposed by the British.

Prime Minister Tony Blair's Great Britain is a willing warrior in any war to rid Iraq of Saddam Hussein and his alleged weapons of mass destruction. While dodging questions on how long inspectors should be given before France might join a war, France's President Jacques Chirac noted that before the United Nations (UN) inspectors were withdrawn from Iraq in 1998, they had destroyed more arms than America and its allies did in the Gulf war itself. Since the French position on this was already obvious to the British, the two sides agreed swiftly to disagree. They also glossed over a divergence of views about Zimbabwe, a country mentioned only in passing in a joint document promising Franco-British co-operation in the thankless task of bringing peace and development to Africa. France has invited Zimbabwe's dictatorial President Robert Mugabe to a France-Africa summit due to take place later this month. The invitation comes despite Britain's opposition and a European Union (EU) ban on visits by Mr. Mugabe. If he does get his visa, he might feel entitled to a visa for the EU's African summit in Lisbon in April, which in turn would be a flop because it would then be boycotted by Mr. Blair and several other EU leaders. Yet even with Iraq and Zimbabwe off the table, the French and English summiteers can still argue that their taxpayers had their money's worth. One reason, apart from a feel-good agreement for more educational and commercial exchanges, is that Mr. Blair and Mr. Chirac claim to have restored momentum to the collaboration on defense that they signed at a summit in St. Malo in 1998. Part of this is commercial: a British decision last week to share the building of two aircraft carriers between BAE of Britain and Thales of France will create the economies of scale to let France build another aircraft carrier to float alongside the Charles de Gaulle.

Evaluates the European Union's reaction to Britain Prime Minister Tony Blair's relationship with U.S. President George W. Bush. Opposition to Britain's ties with the United States; Appreciation for Blair's moderate influence on Bush; Isolation of Blair in Europe; Central European nations that are pro-American; Blair's ambitions for the European Union; Europe's reliance on Britain.

The article looks at British politics and foreign policy as of June 2014, focusing on former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and on the country's participation in the Iraq War. The author criticizes Blair's decision to take part in the invasion of Iraq and notes that he continues to be called on by the country's news media to offer opinions on military and foreign relations matters despite a wide consensus that his policy decisions as prime minister were wrong.