Showing posts with label Tom Gallagher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tom Gallagher. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

What’s Transitional Justice – when it’s at home?

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I continue to think about the increasing divisiveness in our societies – and the apparently minimal efforts being made to repair the divisi...
Sunday, May 9, 2021

Attempting the Impossible

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The last post suggested that few authors had dared tackle the question of national success – choosing instead to focus on how nations fail. ...
Sunday, January 15, 2017

Impervious power

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For more than a decade I lived and worked in states in central Asia and central Europe which were (and remain) systemically corrupt – my...
Saturday, April 30, 2016

Poetry, Potted history and Geopolitics - "In Europe's Shadow"

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The search for books which (try to) capture the soul of a country is an increasingly fascinating endeavour for me. Such books cannot be ...
Monday, November 24, 2014

EU credit

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This blog admits to sharing the general cynicism about the political process. All the more important therefore to recognise when positive ...
Thursday, November 13, 2014

European Hubris

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It’s difficult these days to be objective about the European Union – the combination of the euro crisis, austerity and the immigration set...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

Theft of a nation

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As I was writing yesterday’s post, I realised how little I knew about how the restitution of Romanian property (seized by the communists a ...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

Hypocritical Europe?

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Today's previous post tried simply to describe the latest developments here in Romania. This second post today reflects conversations...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

Missing history of administrative reform

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Worked non-stop all Saturday on this briefing paper on Chinese administrative reform (Friday’s draft is here ). Two developments got the cre...
Monday, October 18, 2010

A Fine Mess

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Let me clarify - the pessimism I feel about the performance capacity of governments relates to my experience and understanding of (a) the UK...
Saturday, October 16, 2010

Romania's stark realities - and what is to be done?

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British insularity is such that, over the past century, there have been only a handful of academics with an interest in Romania. In the fi...