Global Statesman

'David Webber has written an important book on an important topic. He subjects Gordon Brown's core political economy, both as Chancellor and Prime Minister and both in its domestic and global contexts, to rigorous and deserved scrutiny. Brown is praised and criticised en route, but above all he is understood.' Anthony Payne, Director of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI), University of Sheffield An authoritative portrait of Labour's longest-serving Chancellor of the Exchequer and his personal crusade against global poverty Revisiting the years that Gordon Brown spent as the architect-in-chief and centrifugal force of the New Labour project, this book explores how, during his time at the Treasury, Brown was able to exercise more power than any of his predecessors in the setting of economic policy both at home and abroad. Drawing upon an array of speeches and policies made by the former Chancellor and Prime Minister, this book charts a frequently forgotten but crucial dimension of Brown's politics: his deeply rooted commitment to international development. Offering a critical assessment of the terms upon which the former Chancellor and Prime Minister took his own carefully cultivated model of British political economy to the world, this book reveals how Brown exported this as a means of increasing overseas aid, and addressing the issues of debt, HIV and AIDS in the global South. David Webber is a Teaching Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. Cover image: Gordon Brown, 2010 (c) Mitch Jenkins / Contour by Getty Images Cover design: Richard Budd, based on a design concept by David Webber [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-2356-4 Barcode

David Webber is Senior Lecturer in Football Studies in the School of Sport, Health & Social Science at Southampton Solent University. He has been published in the New Statesman and the International Review for the Sociology of Sport.