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The Official History of the Cabinet Secretaries

The Official History of the Cabinet Secretaries

This book is the official history of British Cabinet Secretaries the most senior civil servants in UK government from the post-war period up to 2002. In December 1916 Maurice Hankey sat at the Cabinet table to take the first official record of Cabinet decisions. Prior to this there had been no formal Cabinet agenda and no record of Cabinet decisions. Using authoritative government papers some of which have not yet been released for public scrutiny this book tells the story of Hankey’s post-war successors as they advised British Prime Ministers and recorded Cabinet’s crucial decisions as the country struggled through the exhaustion that followed World War II grappled with a weak economy that could not support its world ambitions saw the end of the post-war economic and social consensus and faced the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers symbol of Western dominance. It looks at events through the eyes of politically neutral senior civil servants the mandarins of Britain. It shows how the dramatic foreshortening of timescales and global news have complicated the working lives of those who daily face the deluge of potentially destabilising events – the skills required to see dangers and opportunities around corners when to calm things down and when to accelerate action; why secrecy is endemic when government comes close to losing control or when political ambition threatens self-destruction. This book will be of great interest to students of British politics British history and British government. | The Official History of the Cabinet Secretaries

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Ministerial Survival During Political and Cabinet Change Foreign Affairs Diplomacy and War

Ministerial Survival During Political and Cabinet Change Foreign Affairs Diplomacy and War

Political leaders need ministers to help them rule and so conventional wisdom suggests that leaders appoint competent ministers to their cabinet. This book shows this is not necessarily the case. It examines the conditions that facilitate survival in ministerial office and how they are linked to ministerial competence the political survival of heads of government and the nature of political institutions. Presenting a formal theory of political survival in the cabinet it systematically analyses the tenure in office of more than 7 300 ministers of foreign affairs covering more than 180 countries spanning the years 1696-2004. In doing so it sheds light not only on studies of ministerial change but also on diplomacy the occurrence of war and the democratic peace in international relations. This text will be of key interest to students of comparative executive government comparative foreign policy political elites and more broadly to comparative politics political economy political history and international relations. | Ministerial Survival During Political and Cabinet Change Foreign Affairs Diplomacy and War

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Marketing Graffiti The Writing on the Wall

Marketing Graffiti The Writing on the Wall

Radical and unique in its approach and presentation Marketing Graffiti turns the traditional marketing introduction on its head by helping students to understand the part they already play as ‘consumers’ in the marketing process. Most marketing textbooks tackle the subject as a business function – i. e. how to do marketing in companies and other organizations. Marketing Graffiti shows how marketing is not just a business function but a part of our culture and one in which we are all active as part-time marketers. By rejecting managerially-driven structures in this way Saren's approach makes marketing immediate and instantly recognizable as a process and a phenomenon in which we are already complicit. It helps readers to become aware of what they already know. Critically examining a wide range of products businesses technologies information services ads packaging and branding Saren utilizes everyday images and phenomena to draw out the conceptual foundations of marketing from a social science and cultural studies perspective as something that we all experience in everyday life. This new edition of the first critical marketing textbook discusses the role new technologies (such as social media) play in marketing culture and how this can potentially place more power in the clicks of the consumer. It includes new updated or expanded sections on market exclusion the role of the consumer in innovation space and place pricing consumer communities collaborative consumption and social media marketing. Leading experts in these fields of research and marketing practice also contribute additional sections on these topics. This essential marketing guide is supported by a range of teaching support materials including the latest journal and online references guides to further reading teaching slides and test bank questions | Marketing Graffiti The Writing on the Wall

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Bricks in the Wall The Politics of Housing in Europe

Bricks in the Wall The Politics of Housing in Europe

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of how politics shape housing markets and vice-versa. It demonstrates how housing impacts a variety of social and political phenomenon including populist politics generational divides wealth inequality monetary policy and the welfare state. Housing and housing markets have important implications for economic stability public policy domestic politics and wealth inequality in Europe and beyond. Yet despite its importance housing has received relatively little attention in comparative politics scholarship. The contributions within this volume push the scholarship of housing into fresh innovative directions. The chapters focus on housing’s contribution to wealth inequality how housing constrains governments’ policy choices in welfare state reform and how it can strengthen governments’ hands in financial regulation. Other contributions reveal the impact of housing on central bankers’ motivations for implementing monetary expansion highlight the generational divide in gaining access to home-ownership demonstrate how housing-driven wealth inequality steers voters political preferences towards right-wing populism and explain how housing gradually shifted from being a social right to an object of investment in Europe even within its most egalitarian states. These contributions cover a diversity of cases in Western and Eastern Europe and theoretical paradigms that will appeal to scholars and policy makers alike. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of West European Politics. | Bricks in the Wall The Politics of Housing in Europe

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Critical Perspectives on Teaching in Prison Students and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall

Critical Perspectives on Teaching in Prison Students and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall

This volume makes a case for engaging critical approaches for teaching adults in prison higher education (or “college-in-prison”) programs. This book not only contextualizes pedagogy within the specialized and growing niche of prison instruction but also addresses prison abolition reentry and educational equity. Chapters are written by prison instructors currently incarcerated students and formerly incarcerated students providing a variety of perspectives on the many roadblocks and ambitions of teaching and learning in carceral settings. All unapologetic advocates of increasing access to higher education for people in prison contributors discuss the high stakes of teaching incarcerated individuals and address the dynamics conditions and challenges of doing such work. The type of instruction that contributors advocate is transferable beyond prisons to traditional campus settings. Hence the lessons of this volume will not only support readers in becoming more thoughtful prison educators and program administrators but also in becoming better teachers who can employ critical democratic pedagogy in a range of contexts. | Critical Perspectives on Teaching in Prison Students and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall

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Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

Television shows that we might call ‘prestige television’ represent prison in ways that are sometimes reductive sometimes powerful and sometimes exceedingly complex. This book examines various programmes across the genres of drama comedy and horror that utilize prison or places of incarceration as a central theme or setting to show how they conform to or challenge the standard conversation about the prison industrial complex and the common understanding of prisons as violent spaces where we house the worst among us. Drawing on the work of Angela Davis Doran Larson Dylan Rodriguez Michelle Alexander and Lisa Guenther the author presents focused studies of Orange Is the New Black Rectify American Horror Story and The Walking Dead (along with briefer discussions of The 100 police procedurals and popular sitcoms) to explore the responsibility of television to represent prison in as authentic a fashion as possible the exploitation of the incarcerated in reductive representations of prison and the shifting nature of the national conversation about prison as it is depicted on screen. As such the book will appeal to scholars of cultural and media studies criminology and sociology with interests in incarceration and representations of prison in popular culture. | Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

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Gulf Crisis

Gulf Crisis

First published in 1991. Gulf Crisis begins with a psychological look at Saddem Hussein and his decisions surrounding the invasion into Kuwait before the start of the Gulf War in May 1990. Ghazi Algosaibi was the Cabinet Minister of Saudi Arabia during the Crisis and therefore writes with a unique insight into the complex political relationships at Arab leaders’ reactions and debates around the initial Iraqi-Iranian War which proceeded the Gulf War. Also including the reactions of the Gulf Media this book gives an insider’s view of the Crisis and exploration of the previously unknown internal events happening in the Middle East.

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Man in His Original Dignity Legal Ethics in France

Man in His Original Dignity Legal Ethics in France

This title was first published in 2001. This work explores the professional standards of the French bar as it moves rapidly but with misgivings into a world of competition organization and globalism. It focuses on the ideology of French legal ethics in its historical and social contexts rather than the details of the rules governing avocats. Those rules are technical and in many respects similar to the rules in effect in the USA. But lawyers in France and the United States base their rules on strikingly different pictures of lawyers. French avocats classify their duties as a series of virtues - probity honour and delicacy - to follow one official formulation. By contrast lawyers in the USA to judge from the way they justify their rules consider their fellows scoundrels who without regulation would cheat their clients opposing parties and other lawyers. The author's goal is to describe in their cultural and institutional contexts the professional ideals of the French bar as it remembers its past and faces its future. | Man in His Original Dignity Legal Ethics in France

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After Globalization Crisis and Disintegration

After Globalization Crisis and Disintegration

In the 1980s U. S. officials adopted tax and monetary policies that channeled huge new resources into Wall Street which fueled a stock market boom. To increase profits and payouts to investors as stock prices soared corporate managers consolidated businesses outsourced manufacturing to low-wage countries and adopted new technologies to increase productivity. Government officials then facilitated mergers and negotiated free trade agreements to speed the process of globalization. Wall Street became an engine of capital accumulation and a force for global change. These developments resulted in massive job losses and stagnant wages for most Americans. Meanwhile tax cuts and the stock market boom created vast new wealth for the rich and the top 10 percent seized 50 percent of all income in the United States. The result was growing economic inequality. During the decades that followed globalization triggered regional economic crises toppled governments transformed societies galvanized economic development in China and created new forms of wealth and inequality around the world. Then in 2008 a financial crisis rooted in Wall Street triggered the Great Recession wrecked the legitimacy of globalization as a development strategy and unleashed populist or restrictionist social movements and political parties that challenged globalization and attacked its economic and political foundations. This book examines the origins of globalization in the 1980s the developments that triggered the Great Recession and the political and economic forces that contributed to the disintegration of globalization as a force for change in the modern world. After Globalization explains what happened—and what comes next. | After Globalization Crisis and Disintegration

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Contesting Public Spaces Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in London

Contesting Public Spaces Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in London

This book explores concerns for spatial justice as streets squares and neighbourhoods are continuously made and remade through planning processes political ambitions and everyday activities. By investigating three sites in London that have been the focus of masterplanning Ed Wall exposes conflicts between planning offices and private developers who direct large urban change and community groups market traders and residents whose public lives are inseparable from their neighbourhoods being reconfigured. The book uniquely brings sociological approaches to what are often considered architectural concerns revealing challenges as London's public spaces are designed regulated and lived. Through in-depth research Ed Wall identifies how uncertainty caused by large-scale urban strategies the realisation of visual priorities and uneven relations between private interests public organisations and daily lives determine the public realm of global cities. This work is intended for readers interested in how the urban spaces of their cities are continually produced in competing ways—from architecture and urban studies scholars to planners and politicians. | Contesting Public Spaces Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in London

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Uniting Germany Actions And Reactions

Uniting Germany Actions And Reactions

This is an account of the dramatic events leading to the reunification of Germany. The author looks into the complex intertwining of popular action national politics and international moves that culminated in the historic events of 1989. After providing a brief historical background the author analyzes the sequence of events in East Germany the interplay between East German discontent and Bonn's policies and Chancellor Kohl's role in mobilizing domestic and international support for reunification. Paying special attention to the attitudes and actions of other powers particularly Russia the author provides a detailed look at the decisive negotiations with Gorbachev that cleared the way for German reunification. The book combines action on the streets with cabinet politics and the challenge of balancing domestic priorities with international concerns. | Uniting Germany Actions And Reactions

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Russian War 1854 Baltic and Black Sea Official Correspondence

Russian War 1854 Baltic and Black Sea Official Correspondence

This volume reproduces the Cabinet Confidential print of January 1855 a time of crisis in British Government when the Aberdeen Ministry heavily defeated on a vote of confidence was eventually replaced by Lord Palmerston’s Ministry. The First Lord of the Admiralty Sir James Graham survived the change and the print reflected his decision to use the Vice Admirals commanding the principal theatres of war the Baltic and the Black sea as scapegoats for the failure of his overly ambitious under-funded strategy. While Sir James Dundas went quietly Sir Charles Napier fought back. While the two collections provide a sound introduction to the key issues of the campaign including the capture of Bomarsund plans to attack other Baltic fortresses the economic blockade the bombardment of Odessa the invasion of the Crimea and the disastrous loss of shipping of Balaklava in November 1854 this collection should be read in conjunction with the other official and private correspondence. | Russian War 1854 Baltic and Black Sea Official Correspondence

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British Politics The Basics

British Politics The Basics

Fully updated and expanded the second edition of this still compact text on British politics expertly analyses the major changes in British political life placing them revealingly within the context of the evolution of British society from absolute monarchy to representative democracy. The author considers each of the major components of British politics in digestible chapters such as the Monarchy and the House of Lords the Commons voting behaviour parties and pressure groups the prime minister and cabinet devolution local government and foreign policy. The book includes two new chapters on the EU referendum and Brexit and the extraordinary December 2019 election as well as coverage of events such as the coronavirus pandemic and the respective travails of the increasingly split two major political parties. This readable and comprehensive introduction will be of key interest to A-level students undergraduates and those new to the study of British politics. | British Politics The Basics

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US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa A Bridge between Global Conflict and the New World Order 1988-1994

US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa A Bridge between Global Conflict and the New World Order 1988-1994

This book investigates the end of the Cold War in Africa and its impact on post-Cold War US foreign policy in the continent. The fall of the Berlin Wall is widely considered the end of the Cold War; however it documents just one of the many ends since the Cold War was a global conflict. This book looks at one of the most neglected extra-European battlegrounds the African continent and explores how American foreign policy developed in this region between the late 1980s and the early 1990s. Drawing on a wide range of recently disclosed documents the book shows that the Cold War in Africa ended in 1988 preceding the fall of the Berlin Wall. It also reveals how since then some of the most controversial and inconsistent episodes of post-Cold War US foreign policy in Africa have been deeply rooted in the unique process whereby American rivalry with the USSR found its end in the continent. The book challenges the traditional narrative by presenting an original perspective on the study of the end of the Cold War and provides new insights into the shaping of US foreign policy during the so-called ‘unipolar moment’. This book will be of much interest to students of Cold War history US foreign policy African politics and international relations. | US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa A Bridge between Global Conflict and the New World Order 1988-1994

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New Zealand Adopts Proportional Representation Accident? Design? Evolution?

New Zealand Adopts Proportional Representation Accident? Design? Evolution?

First published in 1998 this volume is based upon the files of the Royal Commission on the Electoral System plus extensive interviews with the Commissioners cabinet ministers MPs and officials as well as leaders of the principal pressure groups. It seeks to place this highly important change in context reviewing both the long-term trends and shorter term considerations which led to the adoption of MMP as well as the immediate consequences It is an axiom of political science that whatever promises political parties may make about electoral reform as governments they do not kick away the ladder that brought them to power. This book seeks to discover how and why that axiom was disregarded in New Zealand and above all how a reputedly conservative party was ultimately responsible for the change. It provides an object lesson in both how and how not to change an electoral system and should be of particular interest in countries with simple plurality electoral systems. | New Zealand Adopts Proportional Representation Accident? Design? Evolution?

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Drag Interperformance and the Trouble with Queerness

Drag Interperformance and the Trouble with Queerness

This story of drag kings and queens at Cleveland Ohio’s most popular gay bar reveals that these genres have little in common and introduces interperformance a framework for identity formation and coalition building that provides strategies for repairing longstanding rifts in the LGBT community. Drag Interperformance and the Trouble with Queerness is the first book centered on queer life in this growing midwestern hub and the first to focus simultaneously on kinging and queening. It shows that despite the shared heading of drag these iconically queer institutions diverge in terms of audience movement vocabulary stage persona and treatment of gender class race and sexuality. Horowitz argues that the radical (in)difference between kings and queens provides a window into the perennial rift between lesbians and gay men and challenges the assumption that all identities subsumed under the queer umbrella ought to have anything in common culturally politically or otherwise. Drawing on performer interviews about the purpose of drag contestations over space and the eventual shuttering of the bar they called home Horowitz offers a new way of thinking about identity as a product of relations and argues that relationality is our best hope for building queer communities across lines of difference. The book will be key reading for students and faculty in the interdisciplinary fields of feminist gender and sexuality studies; performance studies; American studies; cultural studies; ethnography; and rhetoric. It will be useful to graduate students and faculty interested in queer culture gender performance and transgender studies. At the same time the clear and relatable writing style will make it accessible to undergraduates and well suited to upper-level courses in queer theory LGBTQ identities performance studies and qualitative research methods.

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Japanese Culture Through Videogames

Japanese Culture Through Videogames

Examining a wide range of Japanese videogames including arcade fighting games PC-based strategy games and console JRPGs this book assesses their cultural significance and shows how gameplay and context can be analyzed together to understand videogames as a dynamic mode of artistic expression. Well-known titles such as Final Fantasy Metal Gear Solid Street Fighter and Katamari Damacy are evaluated in detail showing how ideology and critique are conveyed through game narrative and character design as well as user interface cabinet art and peripherals. This book also considers how ‘Japan’ has been packaged for domestic and overseas consumers and how Japanese designers have used the medium to express ideas about home and nation nuclear energy war and historical memory social breakdown and bioethics. Placing each title in its historical context Hutchinson ultimately shows that videogames are a relatively recent but significant site where cultural identity is played out in modern Japan. Comparing Japanese videogames with their American counterparts as well as other media forms such as film manga and anime Japanese Culture Through Videogames will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese culture and society as well as Game Studies Media Studies and Japanese Studies more generally.

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The Empty Chair Tales from Gestalt Therapy

The Empty Chair Tales from Gestalt Therapy

Through eight compelling stories we get to know the Gestalt therapist Vikram Kolmannskog and some of his clients. These include the businessman Carl who is suffering from chronic burnout the overwhelmed Marianne who believes she may have been the victim of sexual assualt the trans woman Annette who breaks with dominant gender norms the prisoner Jonny who is now encircled by his own self-made wall of isolation and the beautiful Ask who falls in love and others fall in love with - including the therapist Vikram. Through these tales of psychotherapy we see how both suffering and healing can occur. With increased awareness and through dialogue we can experience more of ourselves the other and our world. We become more whole - and that is a good definition of health. | The Empty Chair Tales from Gestalt Therapy

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How Autocrats Abuse Power Resistance to Trump and Trumpism

How Autocrats Abuse Power Resistance to Trump and Trumpism

Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy this book provides the definitive account of both Trump’s efforts to erode democracy’s essential elements and opposition to those efforts. This book is about the threat of autocracy which antedated Donald Trump and will persist after he leaves the stage. Autocrats blur or breach the separation of powers use executive orders to bypass the legislature pack the courts replace career prosecutors with political appointees abuse the pardon power and claim immunity from the law. They seek to hobble opposition from civil society by curtailing speech and assembly tolerating and even encouraging vigilante violence and attacking the media. As this book demonstrates Trump followed the autocrat’s playbook in many ways. He was a huckster of hate aiming his vitriol at women and racial minorities and making attacks on immigrants the focus of his 2016 campaign as well as his first years in office. Nevertheless his rhetoric and policies encountered widespread opposition—from religious leaders business executives lawyers and bar associations and civil servants. His executive orders (on which he relied) were almost all struck down by courts: including the first two “Muslim bans ” the detention of children and their separation from parents the diversion of military funds to build the border wall the insertion of a citizenship question in the census and the limits on asylum. Just as Trump sought to weaponize the criminal justice system against his political opponents so he manipulated it to defend his cronies derailing some of their prosecutions. Trump also intervened in courts martial and criminal prosecutions of those convicted of war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq and those accused of desertion and terrorism. Again however there was resistance as some career prosecutors withdrew from cases or resigned when subjected to political pressure and federal courts convicted all of Trump’s allies—even though the president went on to use his unreviewable pardon power. This book then documents the abuses that are characteristic of autocracy and assesses the various forms of resistance to them. This definitive account and analysis of Trumpism in action as well as the resistance to it will appeal to scholars students and others with interests in politics populism and the rule of law and more specifically to those concerned with resisting the threat that autocracy poses to liberal democracy. | How Autocrats Abuse Power Resistance to Trump and Trumpism

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The Makeup Artist Handbook Techniques for Film Television Photography and Theatre

The Makeup Artist Handbook Techniques for Film Television Photography and Theatre

Learn first-rate techniques and tips from some of the best makeup artists in the business in the new edition of The Makeup Artist Handbook. Renown makeup pros Gretchen Davis and Mindy Hall bring an impressive set of experience in all areas to the book including work on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Steve Jobs The Wolf of Wall Street Blue Jasmine Star Trek Pearl Harbor HBO’s Looking and many other films and TV shows. This full-color comprehensive new edition offers brand new photographs and on-the-job examples to demonstrate makeup techniques and fundamentals on topics such as beauty time periods black and white photography and up-to-date information on cutting-edge techniques like computer-generated characters makeup effects mold-making air brushing and plenty of information on how to work effectively on set. | The Makeup Artist Handbook Techniques for Film Television Photography and Theatre

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Therapeutic Conversations with Adolescents Helping Teens in Therapy Thrive in an Ultra-Competitive Screen-Saturated World

Therapeutic Conversations with Adolescents Helping Teens in Therapy Thrive in an Ultra-Competitive Screen-Saturated World

Therapeutic Conversations with Adolescents takes readers into the office of a seasoned therapist where they can be a fly on the wall of live therapy sessions. Full of actual dialogue and the processing behind the choice of responses and interventions this book stands in contrast to the dozens of books about adolescent therapy that discuss only theory conjecture and generic strategies. Teenagers today need therapists who can offer robust and unpretentious therapeutic relationships as well as conversations that matter enough to hold their clients’ attention and make them want to come back for more. Readers will come away from this book understanding how to tread the delicate balance between the support and confrontation the forthrightness and discretion and the humor and tenacity that therapists need to make a real and lasting impact with teenagers. | Therapeutic Conversations with Adolescents Helping Teens in Therapy Thrive in an Ultra-Competitive Screen-Saturated World

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Making British Defence Policy Continuity and Change

Making British Defence Policy Continuity and Change

This book explores the process by which defence policy is made in contemporary Britain and the institutions actors and conflicting interests which interact in its inception and continuous reformulation. Rather than dealing with the substance of defence policy this study focuses upon the institutional actors involved in this process. This is a subject which has commanded far more interest from public Parliament government and the armed forces since the protracted bloody and ultimately unsuccessful British military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. The work begins with a discussion of two contextual factors shaping policy. The first relates to the impact of Britain’s ‘special relationship’ with the United States over defence and intelligence matters while the second considers the impact of Britain’s relatively disappointing economic performance upon the funding of British defence since 1945. It then goes on to explore the role and impact of all the key policy actors from the Prime Minister Cabinet and core executive to the Ministry of Defence and its relations with the broader ‘Whitehall village’ and the Foreign Office and Treasury in particular. The work concludes by examining the increasing influence of external policy actors and forces such as Parliament the courts political parties pressure groups and public opinion. This book will be of much interest to students of British defence policy security studies and contemporary military history. | Making British Defence Policy Continuity and Change

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Beyond Hybrid Working A Smarter & Transformational Approach to Flexible Working

Beyond Hybrid Working A Smarter & Transformational Approach to Flexible Working

Much more than a book about flexible working Beyond Hybrid Working is an engaging and practical management book to help organisations rethink all aspects of traditional work in the emerging post-pandemic landscape and reap the benefits from working smarter. Many organisations that had rapidly improvised and implemented Hybrid Working now want to take a more strategic approach. ‘Smart Working’ is being adopted across sectors from technology companies through the financial services sector to the public sector. Andy Lake has supported implementations in businesses and public sector organisations for nearly 30 years including advising the UK Cabinet Office. He sets out a strategic comprehensive and integrated approach to Smart Working in the context of new possibilities for working on a more distributed basis and the impact of new AI-based technologies coming over the horizon. He also explores the possibilities for greater flexibility for workers with hands-on and site-specific roles. Featuring detailed case studies the book takes a pragmatic and evidence-based approach covering different sectors and types of work and presents practical techniques for implementing change. This is essential reading for anyone involved in transformational workplace change and increasing the efficiency of organisations. It is written for managers who need to deliver change and professionals and researchers in the fields of People Workplace and Technology. | Beyond Hybrid Working A Smarter & Transformational Approach to Flexible Working

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Nelson Mandela Peace Through Reconciliation

Nelson Mandela Peace Through Reconciliation

This book reflects on the life and politics of Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) and his efforts to broker peace and reconciliation in a deeply divided country. Through examples from apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa it explores conflict and methods for realising peace social justice and democracy. The book looks at the festering of animosity and racial bitterness between the white Afrikaner community and the black community during years of racial violence injustices and authoritarianism in South Africa. In the most violent phase of the country’s history Mandela offered to both communities peaceful means to ensure equality justice and inclusivity. The author highlights the extraordinary challenges which Mandela faced in mobilising consent and persuading both the black and the Afrikaner community to acquiesce to a peaceful transfer of power. The volume further details the socio-political contexts and negotiations which resulted in the swift transfer of power Mandela’s insistence on crafting inclusive systems of nationhood his multi-cultural cabinet and the institutionalisation of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to address challenges facing the two communities in the post-conflict period. An accessible introduction to one of the greatest leaders in contemporary history this book will be essential reading for scholars and researchers of peace and conflict studies social exclusion and discrimination critical race theory human rights politics decolonisation and post-colonial studies sociology and history. | Nelson Mandela Peace Through Reconciliation

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Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe The Influence of Smaller Powers

Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe The Influence of Smaller Powers

The Cold War is conventionally regarded as a superpower conflict that dominated the shape of international relations between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Smaller powers had to adapt to a role as pawns in a strategic game of the superpowers its course beyond their control. This edited volume offers a fresh interpretation of twentieth-century smaller European powers – East–West neutral and non-aligned – and argues that their position vis-à-vis the superpowers often provided them with an opportunity rather than merely representing a constraint. Analysing the margins for manoeuvre of these smaller powers the volume covers a wide array of themes ranging from cultural to economic issues energy to diplomacy and Bulgaria to Belgium. Given its holistic and nuanced intervention in studies of the Cold War this book will be instrumental for students of history international relations and political science. | Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe The Influence of Smaller Powers

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