Statecraft
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Margaret Thatcher. Statecraft
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Introduction
CHAPTER 1. Cold War Reflections. PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION
DEBATES IN PRAGUE
THE WEST WON
CHAPTER 2. The American Achievement. MY AMERICA
JUST ONE POLE
MILITARY PREPAREDNESS – MATÉRIEL
MILITARY PREPAREDNESS – MORALE
RMA
‘REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR’
MISSILES AND MISSILE DEFENCE
TAKING THE STRAIN
CHAPTER 3. The Russian Enigma. A VISIT TO NIZHNY NOVGOROD
THE PERILS OF PREDICTION
THE BURDEN OF HISTORY
THE LEGACY OF COMMUNISM
ECONOMIC REFORM AND THE IMF
WHY ECONOMIC REFORM HAS FAILED SO FAR
RUSSIA AS A MILITARY POWER
NATIONALITY PROBLEMS AND THE ‘NEAR ABROAD’
DOING BUSINESS WITH MR PUTIN?
CHAPTER 4. Asian Values. PART I: WHY ASIA MATTERS
PART II: THE TIGERS. SINGAPORE – A MAN-MADE MIRACLE
ECONOMIC CRISES AND PROSPECTS
ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS, 1997–98
1997
1998
POLITICAL CRISES AND PROSPECTS
INDONESIA – A MAN-MADE MESS
PART III: JAPAN. THE JAPANESE PHENOMENON
JAPANESE CAPITALISM
AKIO MORITA
OUT OF THE DOLDRUMS?
JAPAN AS A WORLD POWER
THE KOBE EXPERIENCE
CHAPTER 5. Asian Giants. PART I: CHINA. HARD POUNDING IN BEIJING
THE PAST AND THE PRESENT
CHINA TODAY: THE ECONOMY
CHINA TODAY: POLITICS
PROSPECTS FOR REFORM
THE CHINESE THREAT
TAIWAN – TROUBLE SPOT
TAIWAN – MODEL
REFLECTIONS ON A LOTUS BOWL
HONG KONG POSTSCRIPT
PART II: INDIA
THE BRITISH LEGACY
LOST OPPORTUNITIES
THE PATH OF REFORM
CONFLICT RESOLUTION
CHAPTER 6. Rogues, Religions and Terrorism. WHAT IS A ROGUE?
NORTH KOREA
CHALLENGES OF ISLAM
IRAQ
SYRIA
LIBYA
IRAN
THE HOLY LAND
CHAPTER 7. Human Rights and Wrongs. RIGHTS AND THE RIGHT
WHAT HUMAN RIGHTS MEANT – AND DID NOT MEAN
GENOCIDE AND NUREMBERG
THE YUGOSLAV AND RWANDA CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS
THE PROPOSED INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
THE PINOCHET CASE
EUROPE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
CHAPTER 8. Balkan Wars. A SUITABLE CASE FOR INTERVENTION
VUKOVAR
CHRONOLOGY OF KEY EVENTS IN THE BALKANS, 1987–2001. 1987
1989
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
WAR AGAINST SLOVENIA AND CROATIA
WAR AGAINST BOSNIA
WAR IN KOSOVO
THE BALKANS – BEYOND KOSOVO
CHAPTER 9. Europe – Dreams and Nightmares. THE PROBLEMS OF EUROPE
NEW STATES FOR OLD
THE EUROPEAN IDEA
THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL MODEL
EUROPE’S PENSIONS CRISIS
THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY AND PROTECTION
WIDER STILL AND WIDER …
DEFYING DEMOCRACY
EUROPEAN CURRENCY – PROGRAMME FOR A SUPERSTATE
EUROPEAN ARMY – PROGRAMME FOR A ‘SUPERPOWER’
CHAPTER 10. Britain and Europe – Time to Renegotiate
KEEP THE POUND
EU MEMBERSHIP – LOSSES AND GAINS
OPTIONS
CHAPTER 11. Capitalism and its Critics. FREE-ENTERPRISE CAPITALISM
THE RIGHT WAY AND THE THIRD WAY
THE MORAL CASE AND ITS CRITICS
GUILT, POVERTY AND THE THIRD WORLD
DOOM AND REALITY
HOT AIR AND GLOBAL WARMING
GLOBALISM AND ANTI-GLOBALISM
Postscript. RUNNYMEDE
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Footnotes. Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Postscript
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Also By
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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This book is dedicated to Ronald Reagan
To whom the world owes so much
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The figures for defence spending show this.* They demonstrate that America cut too far and that Europe was even worse. The West as a whole in the early 1990s became obsessed with a ‘peace dividend’ that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forgot that the only real peace dividend is peace.
America’s defence budget decreased every year from the end of the Cold War until 1998–99. It now stands at about 60 per cent of its peak of 1985. And this occurred during a period in which public expenditure on all other sectors of the federal budget rose. As a result, American active and reserve military forces in 2000 were more than a million below the levels reached in 1987. The Clinton administration reduced the number of active army divisions to ten, from the eighteen divisions under the Reagan administration. It reduced the airforce by almost half from the Reagan levels. And it reduced the number of naval ships and aircraft carrier battle groups by almost 45 per cent. Moreover, there was a severe shortfall in recruitment of service personnel – the US Navy missed its recruiting goal by nearly seven thousand in 1998.†
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