What is Labour’s foreign policy these days?

As William Hague found before last year’s election, getting your voice heard on foreign policy is difficult for an Opposition. You are, at best, reduced to providing commentary to on-going events, vying not with the government for access to the media but with an array of better-informed foreign policy experts. Having a distinctive take on the changes in the world and practical ideas for how to affect change is harder still. You don’t have a 1,500-person strong Foreign Office.
 
For Labour, there is a different set of problems. Does the party opt for Blairite interventionism, tempered by the fiscal and political realities? If so, what’s the difference to what David Cameron is doing? Does the party go back to a Brownite worldview, focused primarily on the so-called “new” threats — scarcity, environmental change and the need for a reworked international order? If so, how does it explain the likelihood of such an agenda, when Gordon Brown failed to succeed it in far richer times? Or does the party back a new isolationism, urging the nation to focus inward, on what Barack Obama has called “nation-building at home”, at the risk of violating its internationalist legacy?
 
Labour Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander is giving it his best shot.