The result is Britain's chronic entanglement, from time to time highly visible, with some of the most corrupt and cruel regimes in the world. When Labour came in, it had a chance to deconstruct this philosophy, which a fair number of its supporters detest. But there was never a chance that this would happen. No Labour leader in recorded time has promised to wind down the arms industry, and Mr Blair was not going to be the first to try. Instead there has been reform at the edges.
Transparency is a little wider.
The relationship to human-rights threats is rather more explicit. Robin Cook played a positive part in constructing a voluntary code to deter EU countries from outbidding each other in the oppressions they were prepared to overlook to make a quick buck. The Blair doctrine of crusading humanitarianism has practical limits. These turn out to have had horrendous effects. British Hawk aircraft were sold, and used for counter-insurgency purposes in East Timor.