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Labour’s defence thinking, then, comprised of five elements. The firs. was a strong commitment to peace and security through disarmament agreements and arms control which are seen as both means and ends in themselves. Thus for Labour this involved a commitment to international negotiations and détente.1
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Peter Byrd, Social Democracy and Defence: The British Labour Party. British Atlantic Publications, 1984.
Geoffrey Lee Williams, Global Defence: Motivations and Policy in a Nuclear Age. Vikas, 1984, p. 222.
Paul Mercer, Peace of the Dead: The Truth Behind the Nuclear Disarmers. Policy Research Publications, 1986.
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Williams, G.L., Williams, A.L. (1989). The Split. In: Labour’s Decline and the Social Democrats’ Fall. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19948-8_5
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