Making Foreign Policy by John Coles
Government policy affects everyone. But how good are governments at making policy? What is the process? Is government more about management, efficiency and cost-cutting? Or alternatively, in this age of spin doctors, has presentation taken over as the driving force?;John Coles is the former British senior diplomat and earlier worked as Margaret Thatcher's private secretary and as British High Commissioner in Australia and Ambassador to Jordan. In this work he provides insights on the foreign policy process: how governments have struggled to come to terms with the country's changing circumstances in the second half of the 20th century, how policy is made today, and what foreign policy means at the close of the millennium. He gives his own view of the problems which obstruct good policy and offers his personal solutions. He also considers attempts that have been made to define a role for Britain overseas, arguing that the range and quality of British activity across the globe have much to do with our sense of Britishness. He finds that the Idea of Britain is not as faded as its detractors may like to think.
Sir John Coles was, until late 1997, Head of the British Diplomatic Service and Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office. As such he was the principal adviser to three Foreign Secretaries - Malcolm Rifkind, Douglas Hurd and Robin Cook - and personally supervised the policy-making process. Prior to that, in a career spanning 37 years, he held posts in the Foreign Office, the Cabinet Office, Brussels, Cairo, Dubai and Khartoum, and served as British High Commissioner in Australia, British Ambassador in Jordan and Private Secretary to the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Now retired, he has recently been a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He lives in the New Forest.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780719560460 |
| ISBN 10 | 0719560462 |
| Title | Making Foreign Policy |
| Author | John Coles |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | John Murray Press |
| Year published | 2000-03-16 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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