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| | Politics | Blair: first among equals? |
 | | But for all the immediacy of its approach, most of the speech had first been made two years ago, when he introduced the idea of international community in a speech in Chicago, on the eve of Nato's 50th anniversary. |
 | | A significant influence then was the work of Robert Cooper, a diplomat on secondment to the Cabinet Office, whose pamphlet, The post-modern state and the world order, dividing the world not into rich and poor but by political development, was published by the Blairite Foreign Policy Centre. |
 | | For the first time, two special advisers have joined the senior diplomats at the heart of the cabinet secretariat. |
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