The new mandarins : how British foreign policy works /

Not since Anthony Eden's Suez War of 1956 has Britain's foreign policy provoked such intense controversy. But how are British foreign policy decisions taken? How does British diplomacy actually work? For generations the Foreign Office operated as an elitist, secretive institution resisting...

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Main Author: Dickie, John
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : I.B. Tauris, 2004.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • The 'foresight' saga: The manifesto of a revolution
  • The new generation of mandarins
  • Preparations for the mandarinate
  • Spiralling upward: postings and promotions
  • Mandarins and the ministers
  • The formulation of foreign policy
  • Parliament and foreign policy
  • The campaigners for change
  • The influence-seekers
  • The power of the fourth estate
  • After the revolution.