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New and Published Books

  1. Transformational Diplomacy after the Cold War

    Britain’s Know How Fund in Post-Communist Europe, 1989-2003

    By Keith Hamilton

    Series: Whitehall Histories

    This book examines the 'Know How Fund', Britain’s bilateral technical assistance programme in post-communist central and eastern Europe, devised in response to the end of the Cold War. The Know How Fund (KHF) was the technical assistance programme which Margaret Thatcher’s government launched in...

    Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge

  2. The Coal Question (Routledge Revivals)

    Political Economy and Industrial Change from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day

    By Ben Fine

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    The coal industry has always occupied a symbolic place in British economic and political life, inspiring debates and arousing passions throughout the last two centuries. This account of the economics of coal, first published in 1990, is unique in its comprehensive three-part approach. First, Ben...

    Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge

  3. Recession at Work

    HRM in the Irish Crisis

    By Bill Roche, Paul Teague, Anne Coughlan, Majella Fahy

    Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

    How has the recession affected the conduct of human resource management? How have HR departments and managers fared? Have leading firms taken measures to sustain and revive their businesses through innovative HR measures? How have union representation and influence been affected? Is the recession...

    Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Britain, America and Anti-Communist Propaganda 1945-53

    The Information Research Department

    By Andrew Defty

    Series: Studies in Intelligence

    In the Cold War battle for hearts and minds Britain was the first country to formulate a coordinated global response to communist propaganda. In January 1948, the British government launched a new propaganda policy designed to 'oppose the inroads of communism' by taking the offensive against it.' A...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge

  5. Clinton and Blair

    The Political Economy of the Third Way

    By Flavio Romano

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    The former President of the United States, Bill Clinton and, at the time of publication, still current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair have described their style of government as a ‘Third Way’. In this important and timely book, Flavio Romano identifies and clarifies the...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge

  6. Socialism and Religion

    Roads to Common Wealth

    By Vincent Geoghegan

    Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

    In the past decade philosophers and political theorists have increasingly pondered the role of religion in a modern secular society, and of the possible value of religion as a resource for contemporary thinking. The global resurgence of a new religious politics – graphically symbolised by 9/11 -...

    Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge

  7. British Prime Ministers From Balfour to Brown

    By Robert Pearce, Graham Goodlad

    The origins of the post of Prime Minister can be traced back to the eighteenth century when Sir Robert Walpole became the monarch’s principal minister. From the dawn of the twentieth century to the early years of the twenty-first, however, both the power and the significance of the role have been...

    Published March 13th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Open Government (Routledge Revivals)

    A Study of the Prospects of Open Government Within the Limitations of the British Political System

    Edited by Richard A. Chapman, Michael Hunt

    First published in 1987 this book considers the practical implications of increasing public access to official information in Britain, both from the perspective of increasing Freedom of Information and reforming Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act. It draws attention to the practical problems...

    Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Leadership in the British Civil Service (Routledge Revivals)

    A study of Sir Percival Waterfield and the creation of the Civil Service Selection Board

    By Richard A. Chapman

    First published in 1984, this book examines the style of leadership amongst senior civil servants and its impact on administrative reform by investigating the work of Sir Percival Waterfield who was First Civil Service Commissioner from 1939 to 1951. He was responsible for setting up the Civil...

    Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Decision Making (Routledge Revivals)

    A case study of the decision to raise the Bank Rate in September 1957

    By Richard A. Chapman

    Originally published in 1968, Richard Chapman’s pioneering work illuminates the process of decision making by analysis of a particular example: the decision to raise the Bank Rate in September, 1957. The legal responsibility for a decision may be easy to pinpoint; in this case the Court of...

    Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge