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BOOKS BY CHRIS PATTEN
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What Next?: Surviving the Twenty-first Century (2008)This is Chris Patten's latest book, and in many ways his most ambitious in scope yet. The themes covered include globalisation, energy, international crime, WMDs, weapons proliferation, international drugs trafficking, climate change, and the fraying of the nation state, among others. Digesting vast amounts of information from a multiplicity of sources, and drawing on his experience at the highest levels of national and international politics, Chris Patten analyses what we know in each of these areas and argues how in each of them we could get somewhere we might want to be. [Synopsis based on Penguin Books release]
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What Next? Surviving the 21st Century
A fighter for
freedom in all its forms
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Cousins and Strangers: America, Britain, and Europe in a New Century Revised edition of "Not Quite the Diplomat" for the American market (see description below). It contains an additional chapter, "Happy Families". Reviews:
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Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs (2005) "Not Quite the Diplomat describes what has been happening in Britain, Europe and the world since 1997 from the perspective of one at the heart of international events. In examining how we got to where we are, Patten writes frankly about many of the major players and what happened behind closed doors. His sketches of world leaders – including Chirac, Putin, Kohl, and Blair (a man who ‘has convictions to which he holds strongly – while he holds them’) – and of key moments are done with the brush of a master portraitist. In arguing about where we should be, he writes with the directness of a man freed at last from the bonds of diplomatic restraint. No recent book by a politician of any political persuasion has been so engaging, so outspoken – and often so funny. If Chris Patten is no longer the diplomat, it is the readers of this book who are the beneficiaries." [Synopsis reproduced from Penguin Books] Reviews:
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East and West
(1998)
How will Asia--its vast population, its swirling politics, its recently challenged economics--change our world? Few political figures can answer that question as well as Christopher Patten. For five years, Patten was the governor of Hong Kong, and as China prepared to reclaim its people and its land, he struggled to put in place democratic institutions that would ensure Hong Kong's continued vitality. In East and West, Patten draws on those struggles to give us an intimate portrait of the real Asia, in all its diversity, and to make a vital argument for the common interest of Eastern and Western powers. The result is a startling departure from the conventional wisdom about China, power, and the future of Asia. Starting from his own experience as governor, his attempt to introduce democracy to Hong Kong, and his often difficult relationship with both Chinese and Western business and political interests, Patten addresses some of the most vital, and often confused, issues of this new century. Patten dismisses talk of a monolithic "Asian value system" - in the East as well as the West - as a self-serving excuse for authoritarianism. Ultimately, Patten argues that free markets and free politics sustain each other. In the East and in the West, political liberty and economic freedom march together. [Synopsis based on excerpts from book's inside flap] Reviews:
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The Tory Case
(1983) The Tory Case is a study of Conservatism. It was published following Chris Patten's tenure as Director of the Consrvative Reserch Department, and while he was Member of Parliament for Bath.
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AUDIO BOOKS BY CHRIS PATTEN ________________________________________________________________________
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East and West [Audio Book] (1998)
Narrated by Chris Patten. This is an audio cassette version of Patten's East and West book, which he narrates in person. For further information, please refer to the commentary and
reviews listed above for the paper version.
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BOOKS ABOUT CHRIS PATTEN
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The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong (1998)
by Jonathan Dimbleby. In July 1997, Hong Kong ceased to be a British colony and reverted to the People's Republic of China (PRC). Five million people lost their status as British subjects and became citizens of a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. It was always clear that the last five years of British rule would be fraught with uncertainty. For this reason, the appointment of the former Chairman of the Conservative Party, Chris Patten, in June 1992 as the last governor of Hong Kong, was greeted with widespread approval. With rare and priveleged access to the governor and his team, the author provides an insight into events leading up to the handover, including reasons why relations between China and Britain were at their lowest ebb for a generation. The situation is placed in its human and historical context.
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