224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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te Velde examines Commonwealth identity through the lens of its membership criteria, its recent enlargement and its constant reincarnation. Far from being an old relic of the past, the Commonwealth is a growing, vibrant modern international organisation and despite its traditional image, Commonwealth membership is shown to be a rather fluid concept that evolves with the times. This book... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Commonwealth and International Relations Theory; Chapter 3 The Commonwealth Brand: Membership and Identities; Chapter 4 Two Case Studies: Mozambique and Rwanda; Chapter 5 Mapping Commonwealth Peripheries: A Classification and Analysis of Commonwealth Pre-accession States; Chapter 6 Conclusion;
Biography
Dr. Victoria te Velde is an Independent Consultant
'Non- as well as inter-state Commonwealths display considerable resilience and renewal at the start of the second decade of the 21st century, symbolised by recent/imminent members like Rwanda and South Sudan, respectively. The Commonwealths play invaluable roles in terms of inter-racial/religious relations given their innumerable diasporas, codes of conduct for resource industries, promising relations between two of the five BRICS, myriad formal and informal cultural, educational and sporting networks etc, symbolised by its latest EPG report on norms for CHOGM in Perth before end-2011.' Timothy M. Shaw, University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago 'At last we have an analysis of the issue of new membership in the Commonwealth. For the many people who remain puzzled that Mozambique and Rwanda, which were never British colonies, have been admitted into membership, Victoria te Velde provides detailed analysis and thoughtful answers and she sets them convincingly in the context of international relations theory.' W. David McIntyre, Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, New Zealand
