Margaret P. Doxey

The Commonwealth Secretariat and the Contemporary Commonwealth

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A review of the Commonwealth Secretariat's organization, resources and performance together with an exploration of the role of the Secretary-General and a discussion of the problems of financial stringency and political strain over South Africa. It is aimed at specialists and general readers.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Commonwealth Series
• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-09969-6
• 1st ed. 1989
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9781349099696
• ISBN-10: 1349099694
• Artikelnr.: 44460954

Inhaltsangabe

The shape and character of the modern Commonwealth; the secretariat - organization and resources; the office of Commonwealth secretary-general; the secretariat at work - economic affairs, food production and rural development, the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation (CFTC), fellowships and training, the Technical Assistance Group (TAG), export market development, industrial development; co-operation in social and professional fields - education, health, management development, law, the Commonwealth Science Council (CSC), the Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP), women and development; international affairs - the political dimension - membership, consular relations, human rights, the problems of the small States, political field work, crisis and controversy in the Commonwealth context - Nigeria, Cyprus, Grenada; Southern African problems - Rhodesia and Zimbabwe, the front line states and SADCC, South Africa.