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Personal Writing
Before 1998, my writing output was quite occasional and tended to focus on my main professional concerns at the time. This included the emergence and development of specifically European-level political parties (in whose development I played a small part as a political advisor) and issues reting to European integration. Since 1998, there has been a much greater technology and management focus, reflecting my growing concern (not so much within my own working environment but generally) about the lack of senior management input into technology deployment.
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This was the first book about XML that was written explicitly for non-technology audiences. Its success, together with the management training workshops that I run based on material from the book, is based precisely on this vision of XML technology deployment being driven by business needs and not by technology vendors. More details...
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This co-authored book (edited by Davids Baker and Seawright) investigates the often tortuous relationship between Briatin and Europe. My contribution focussed on examining mainland Europe's perceptions of Britain's relationship with Europe. Based on a series of face-to-face interviews with leading European politicians, it examines the evolution of attitudes towards Europe and the European Union in particular, tracing many issues back to Britain's own political, cultural and social heritage.
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Europe's Modern Prince
This essay looks at the growing importance of trans-national and supranational party political federations, in particular the Party of European Socialists (PES). As a political advisor present at the PES birth, I chart some of the political developments that influenced the structure and nature of this new political phenomenon.
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Here we go again...
An initial analysis of the British Labour Party's election defeat in 1992. Although I had worked actively in the election campaign, I argued that, had Labour won, it would have possibly been an immoral victory: Labour's campaign of tightly targetted campaigning meant that it was within a hair's breadth of winning the election despite being way behind in the popular vote.
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Denmark and the Maastricht Treaty
A rather controversial essay written following the referendum in Denmark, that rejected ratification of the so-called "Maastricht Treaty". My main thesis - which I would still maintain - is that national politicians will pay the price for not coming clean with their electorates about the real importance of the European Union whilst being caught in the dilemma that, to admit such importance, is also to reocngise their own decreasing importance in an increasingly internationalised body politic.
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