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

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 …

Analyses the likely future of the EU following next year»s Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) which is likely to be even more significant for the future of Europe than the Maastricht Treaty. Since M …

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 …

The privatization of defence assets and the outsourcing of military services from the armed forces to the private sector is an increasing trend. This book approaches the issue of military privatizati …

Newspapers and TV often report controversial risk warnings over technological innovations, scientific developments, or environmental hazards that have at their core a dispute between experts who cont …

This region — which marks the meeting of China and post-Soviet Central Asia — is increasingly important militarily, economically and geographically. Yet we know little of the people that live there, …

This book surveys the broad terrain covered by the concept of »»the security dilemma»» and points out landmarks along the route proceeding from proliferation to economic interests, showing that t …

Alice Paul: Equality for Women shows the dominant and unwavering role Paul played in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, granting the vote to American women. The dramatic details of Paul»s impr …