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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452947803321

Autore

Hamilton Keith <1942-, >

Titolo

Transformational diplomacy in the Cold War : Britain's Know How Fund in post-communist Europe 1989-2003 / / Keith Hamilton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-38158-0

1-299-46922-1

1-134-12299-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Collana

Whitehall histories: Foreign and Commonwealth Office publications, , 1471-2083

Disciplina

338.91/4104309049

Soggetti

Technical assistance - Europe, Central - History

Technical assistance - Europe, Eastern - History

Electronic books.

Great Britain Foreign economic relations Europe, Central

Europe, Central Foreign economic relations Great Britain

Great Britain Foreign economic relations Europe, Eastern

Europe, Eastern Foreign economic relations Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: banana ripening in Belarus -- Exciting times -- Practice and principles -- Maximum glitz, minimum bucks -- Measuring success -- Evolving exit strategies -- New Labour, new strategy -- Conclusion: knowing how, when and where.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the 'Know How Fund', Britain's bilateral technical assistance programme in post-communist central and eastern Europe, devised in response to the end of the Cold War.The Know How Fund (KHF) was the technical assistance programme which Margaret Thatcher's government launched in the spring of 1989 to encourage Poland's transition from communism to democracy and free-market capitalism. It was subsequently extended to other countries of central and eastern Europe and might be considered a novel experiment in what the US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, would later