The Foreign Policy Centre is a Britishthink tank specialising in foreign policy. It was formed in 1998 and launched by Tony Blair with the aim of developing a "vision of a fair and rule-based world order". It is pro-European. This article is about the institution. ... For the American magazine, see Foreign Policy. ... 1998 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Right Honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ...
They promote:
"Effective multilateral solutions to global problems
Democratic and well-governed states as the foundation of order and development
Partnerships with the private sector to deliver public goods
Support for progressive policy through effective public diplomacy
Inclusive definitions of citizenship to underpin internationalist policies." <aboutus>
It is closely connected to the British Labour Party. The current director (appointed in August 2005) is former Labour minister Stephen Twigg. The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... Stephen Twigg (born December 25, 1966) is a British politician and former Labour Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate. ...
The current (August 2005) advisory council consists of Labour peers Helena Kennedy, Michael Levy, Lord Paul and Baroness Ramsay and economist Sir Michael Butler, LSE Professor Fred Halliday and advertising executive Adam Lury. Helena Ann Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws (born 12 May 1950) is a Labour member of the House of Lords. ... Michael Levy, Lord Levy is a millionare resident of Mill Hill. ... Economics (from the Greek οίκος [oikos], house, and νÎμω [nemo], rules, hence household management) is the social science that studies the production, distribution, trade and consumption of goods and services in the context of the competing alternative allocations of goods and courses of action. ... The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as the London School of Economics or the LSE, is a specialist university based in London, often regarded as the worlds most prestigious social science institution. ...
He was Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2001.
At the time of his death he was president of the ForeignPolicyCentre and a vice-president on the America APPG and the Global Security and Non-Proliferation All Party Parliamentary Group.
Both of these were controversial, the former because it was not sanctioned by the UN Security Council, and the latter because of allegations that the British company Sandline International had supplied arms to supporters of the deposed president in contravention of a United Nations embargo.
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