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Krishnan Srinivasan - The Rise, Decline And Future Of The Brit - 9780230203679 - V9780230203679
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The Rise, Decline And Future Of The Brit

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Description for The Rise, Decline And Future Of The Brit Paperback. Written by a senior Indian diplomat, this book provides a unique and far-reaching exploration of the British Commonwealth and its impact since the Second World War on Britain's adjustment to a world without Empire. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFC; HBG; HBJD1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 217 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
Written by a senior Indian diplomat who has until recently also served as Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General, this book provides a unique and far-reaching exploration of the British Commonwealth, and its impact since the second World War on the process of Britain adjusting to a world without Empire. Whither the Commonwealth now? What is its record of achievement; what are the benefits of membership to countries in terms of collective political influence, trade, investment, aid, travel and education? Can any practical good be envisaged for this nearly moribund post-colonial organization? Britain, which brought the association into being and is central to ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
199
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230203679
SKU
V9780230203679
Shipping Time
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99-15

About Krishnan Srinivasan
KRISHNAN SRINIVASAN is a former senior Indian diplomat (Foreign Secretary, i.e., permanent secretary), and former Commonwealth deputy Secretary-General, a Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, Cambridge, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London University, UK. PETER LYON is Reader Emeritus in International Relations and Senior Research ... Read more

Reviews for The Rise, Decline And Future Of The Brit
'A masterly and properly controversial assessment of the contemporary Commonwealth...This wide-ranging, unsentimental and sometimes provocative analysis of the post 1945 Commonwealth will be essential reading for students of the decline and fall of the British and other European empires, and the post colonial order, and also for all those interested in the contemporary Commonwealth's attempt to define a role for ... Read more

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