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THE COMMONWEALTH IN THE 1980s Also edited by A. J. R. Groom and Paul Taylor FUNCTIONALISM INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: A Conceptual Approach Also by A. J. R. Groom THE MANAGEMENT OF BRITAIN'S EXTERNAL RELATIONS (editor with Robert Boardman) BRITISH THINKING ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS THE STUDY OF WORLD SOCIETY: A London Perspective (with J. W. Burton, A. V. S. De Reuck and C. R. Mitchell) INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY: A Critical Bibliog raphy (editor with C. R. Mitchell) BRITAIN BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: Concerned Independence (with J. W. Burton, Margot Light, C. R. Mitchell and D. Sandole) STRATEGY AND CONFLICT IN THE MODERN WORLD Also by Paul Taylor INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION TODAY THE LIMITS OF INTEGRATION IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES A SURVEY OF INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS (editor) THE COMMONWEALTH IN THE 1980s Challenges and Opportunities Edited by A. J. R. Groom University of Kent at Canterbury and Centre for the Analysis of Conflict and Paul Taylor London School of Economics and Political Science M MACMILLAN ©A. J. R. Groom and Paul Taylor 1984 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1984 978-0-333-30073-2 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission First edition 1984 Reprinted 1989 Published by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD London and Basingstoke Companies and representatives throughout the world Filmset by Latimer Trend & Company Ltd, Plymouth British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Groom, A. J. R. The Commonwealth in the 1980s 1. Commonwealth of Nations I. Title II. Taylor, Paul, 1939- 909'.09712410828 DA18 ISBN 978-1-349-05693-4 ISBN 978-1-349-05691-0 (eBook) DOI10.1007/978-1-349-05691-0 Contents Notes on the Contributors Vll Preface Xl PARTI THEFRAMEWORK The Continuing Commonwealth: its Origins and Character istics A. J. R. Groom and Paul Taylor 3 2 The Commonwealth Secretariat Margaret Doxey 15 3 Regionalism and the Commonwealth A. E. Thorndike 40 PART II FUNCTIONAL DIMENSIONS 4 The Commonwealth Youth Programme and Youth-oriented Activities L. S. Trachtenberg 55 5 Education Ruth Butterworth (with a Note on Regional Examination Councils by L. S. Trachtenberg) 65 6 The Arts: an Emerging Dimension A. J. R. Groom 83 7 Science and Technology: the Commonwealth Dimension Kaye Turner 94 8 Commonwealth Co-operation in the Field of Health John Martin 107 9 Military Ties William Gutteridge 116 10 Law of the Commonwealth Alfred M. Kamanda 125 v VI Contents II The Residual Legatee: Economic Co-operation in the Contemporary Commonwealth Arthur Kilgore and James Mayall 140 12 By Way of Comparison: French Relations with Former Colonies R. J. Harrison 166 PART III HIGH POLITICS 13 Continuity without Consensus: the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings, 1971-81 Michael O'Neill 185 14 Conflict Management in the Commonwealth C. R. Mitchell 225 15 Migration in the Commonwealth Hugh Tinker 244 16 The Existing Dependencies L. S. Trachtenberg 260 PART IV CONCLUSIONS 17 The Commonwealth as an International Organisation A. J. R. Groom 293 18 The Commonwealth in the 1980s: Challenges and Opportunities Paul Taylor 305 Appendices A The Commonwealth- Members and Organisations 327 B The Agreed Memorandum on the Commonwealth Secretariat 338 C The Declaration of Commonwealth Principles 346 D Commonwealth Statement on Apartheid in Sport (The Gleneagles Agreement) 348 E The Lusaka Declaration of the Commonwealth on Racism and Racial Prejudice 350 F The Melbourne Declaration 353 Bibliography 355 Index of Authors, Politicians, etc. 362 Index of Subjects 365 Notes on the Contributors Dr Ruth Butterworth is Associate Professor in Political Studies, University of Auckland. She was formerly Research Officer, Royal Institute of Public Administration, and Deputy Personnel Manager, Simpson (Piccadilly) Ltd. She is the author of numerous papers on the politics of education and information, and on Southern African affairs. Dr Margaret Doxey was born and educated in Britain. She has taught economics and international relations at South African and Canadian universities and worked in industry and government in Britain. She has been Professor of Political Studies at Trent University, Ontario, since 1976, and is the author of Economic Sanctions and International Enforcement (2nd edition published by Macmillan for the Royal Institute of International Affairs in 1980). She has also contributed articles on aspects of international organisation to International Aj}[<irs, International Journal, International Organization, the Year Book of World Affairs, and other periodicals. Dr A. J. R. Groom is Reader in International Relations at the University of Kent at Canterbury and Co-Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Conflict. He previously taught at University College London. He is the author (or co-author) of several books, including British Thinking about Nuclear Weapons, Britain between East and West and Strategy and Conflict in the Modern World, and co-editor of five volumes of original essays. William Gutteridge is Professor Emeritus of International Studies at the University of Aston in Birmingham. He taught previously at Sandhurst and Lanchester Polytechnic in Coventry. His books include Armed Forces in New States, Military Institutions and Power in New States, The Military in African Politics, Military Regim~s in Africa, European Security, Nuclear Weapons and Public Confidence (co-editor), and The Dangers of New Weapon Systems (co-editor). Vll viii Notes on the Contributors Dr R. J. Harrison taught politics at Victoria University, Wellington, from 1957 to 1967 and was a well-known broadcaster and television commentator in New Zealand. Following a developing interest in European politics and European integration, he returned to England in 1967 and is now Senior Lecturer at the University of Lancaster. He is the author of Europe in Question, Pluralism and Corporatism and a large number of articles and reviews. He spent 1981-2 as Visiting Fellow, Victoria University, Wellington. Dr Alfred M. Kamanda was born in Sierra Leone. He is presently Senior Lecturer in Law at the Polytechnic of Central London. He was previously Legal Officer at the ILO, Principal Secretary in the Foreign Office of Sierra Leone and High Commissioner of Sierra Leone in London as well as Professor of International Law at Leuven, Belgium. Arthur Kilgore is a research student and tutor in international organi sations, in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics. Dr John Martin is a medical graduate of Queen's University, Belfast. Following a year in Bangladesh he undertook postgraduate studies in community health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has worked as a community physician in the East End of London and as a consultant to the Medical Division of the Com monwealth Secretariat. Since 1979 Dr Martin has been working as Adviser on Primary Health Care to the Government of Zambia. James Mayall is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics. He has published widely on the theory of international relations, and is the author of a volume on international relations in Africa. Dr C. R. Mitchell has taught international relations at University College London, at Southampton University and at the University of Surrey. He is currently Senior Lecturer at The City University, London, where he continues research into various forms of conflict management and dispute settlement. He is the author of The Structure ofI nternational Conflict (Macmillan, 1981), Peacemaking and the Consultant's Role and numerous articles and reviews on social and international conflict. Notes on the Contributors IX Dr Michael O'Neill is Lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at Sheffield City Polytechnic. His research interest lies in the post colonial relationship with a developing interest in the attitudes and approaches of French politicians to their former colonies. Dr Paul Taylor is Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has published widely on international organisations and on the European Communities, and teaches these subjects. Dr A. E. Thorndike is currently Head of the Department oflnternational Relations and Politics at the North Staffordshire Polytechnic, Stoke-on Trent. He is a specialist in Caribbean and Central American political affairs, several articles on which have been published. Hugh Tinker is Professor of Politics in the University of Lancaster and formerly Director of the Institute of Race Relations. He is the author of a number of books on South and South-East Asia, including three on the emigrant communities from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and of Race, Conflict and the International Order: from Empire to United Nations (Macmillan, 1977). Kaye Turner is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Zambia. She is working on urban community research. A New Zealander, Kaye Turner has co-edited Women and the Law in New Zealand. L. S. Trachtenberg is Associate Director of Studies of the University of Southern California's UK Program. He is currently completing a PhD on the United Nations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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