Public Management and Complexity Theory [EPUB ebook] 
Richer Decision-Making in Public Services

At a time when Europeans across the continent are focused on the EU”s future direction, this book provides an important contribution to the current debate. Created for reasons quite unconnected with …

That public services exhibit unpredictability, novelty and, on occasion, chaos, is an observation with which even a casual observer would agree. Existing theoretical frameworks in public management f …

Reflecting on North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) at 70, and the organisation’s eventful history, this book challenges the traditional crisis-led approach that sees crises as key driving forces …

A FASCINATING INSIGHT INTO THE WORLD OF GLOBAL POLITICS. In 2015 New Zealand began its fourth term as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. Although the Council is sometimes …

Decision-making within the EU has moved to a third (regional) level of government emerging in the EU policy process alongside the first (Union) and second (member state) levels. Multi-level governanc …

First published in 2007. Emerging from communism in the early 1990s, the new state of Bosnia and Herzegovina was immediately embroiled in devastating ethnonationalist conflict. Now an international p …

First Published in 1976. Today the name Sa”udi Arabia evokes images of desert wastes, limitless reservoirs of oil and economic might. When one thinks of the predominant foreign power concerned with …

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. …

This book brings together leading scholars on the politics of energy, examining the natural resources and developing technologies that are essential to its production and the various public …