The Commonwealth Secretariat and the contemporary Commonwealth
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The Commonwealth Secretariat and the contemporary Commonwealth
(Cambridge commonwealth series)
Macmillan, 1989
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Margaret Doxey presents here 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. The Commonwealth is one of many international institutions in which governments grapple with common political, economic and social problems. Since 1965 it has had its own secretariat and secretary-general and as central features of the association they are the specific focus of this study. The Commonwealth Secretariat is small in terms of personnel and budget but plays a significant role in promoting co-operation and development in a wide range of functional areas and both Secretaries-General have brought a political dimension to its work. The author has tried to bring the Commonwealth as a whole into sharper profile and has directed the work towards general readers as well as to specialists in international organizations.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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