Peter Hain
Biographic Data
| ID | 1176489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Hain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Hain |
| SIGNATURE | HAIN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Welsh Government |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Signposts to the 2020s
Unless Labour in tandem with other parties of the parliamentary left offers a modernised Keynesian alternative to the neoliberal economic policies of austerity embraced across Europe, there is no prospect of winning again or defeating the right‐wing populism eating into our voter base
Mandela
Lodge's ‘life’ is different from the others of Mandela that I have read, providing a thorough examination of how Mandela's character developed and how this determined the political decisions that he took. His approach has produced a much shorter book, but one giving more direct access to relevant events without sometimes having to trawl through coverage of fringe activities. Compared with most black South Africans, Nelson Mandela enjoyed a very p…
The International Affairs interview
In this the first of a regular series of interviews to appear in International Affairs, Peter Hain, Leader of the House of Commons, talks to Martha Kearney, Political Editor of BBC television's Newsnight about Britain's role in the Convention on the Future of Europe. He talks of the vision Europe can offer to the world, describing it as one of ‘progressive internationalism ... regulated by multilateral agreements’, and the idea of Europe as a uni…
Britain, Europe and the Commonwealth
Being at the centre of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the United Nations, the G8 group of major economic powers, and the European Union advances Britain's interests. This does not take away sovereignty but strengthens it. Just as Europe contributed to the end of the Milosevic regime in the former Yugoslavia, Britain and the rest of the Commonwealth have worked to restore democracy in Fiji and Sierra Leone, and engage constructively in Zi…
The case for the alternative vote
The alternative vote is an attractive, pragmatic alternative to proportional representation argues Peter Hain. The current first‐past‐the‐post system is unfair and the case for electoral reform is strong. But the fatal defect of all the major proportional representation systems is that the scope for local accountability is undermined, and power is sucked upwards to regional or national levels of the party structure. To question the case for PR is…
Politics by other means
Journal Article Politics by other means: law in the struggle against apartheid, 1980–1994 Get access Politics by other means: law in the struggle against apartheid, 1980–1994. By Richard L. Abel. 1995. 644pp. Index. £45.00; ISBN 0 415 90816 7. Pb.: £14.99; ISBN 0 415 90817 5. Peter Hain Peter Hain 1UK Member of Parliament for Neath Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 2, …
Racial exclusionism and the city
Politics by other means
Journal Article Politics by other means: law in the struggle against apartheid, 1980–1994 Get access Politics by other means: law in the struggle against apartheid, 1980–1994. By Richard L. Abel. 1995. 644pp. Index. £45.00; ISBN 0 415 90816 7. Pb.: £14.99; ISBN 0 415 90817 5. Peter Hain Peter Hain 1UK Member of Parliament for Neath Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 2, …
The case for the alternative vote
The alternative vote is an attractive, pragmatic alternative to proportional representation argues Peter Hain. The current first‐past‐the‐post system is unfair and the case for electoral reform is strong. But the fatal defect of all the major proportional representation systems is that the scope for local accountability is undermined, and power is sucked upwards to regional or national levels of the party structure. To question the case for PR is…
The International Affairs interview
In this the first of a regular series of interviews to appear in International Affairs, Peter Hain, Leader of the House of Commons, talks to Martha Kearney, Political Editor of BBC television's Newsnight about Britain's role in the Convention on the Future of Europe. He talks of the vision Europe can offer to the world, describing it as one of ‘progressive internationalism ... regulated by multilateral agreements’, and the idea of Europe as a uni…
Britain, Europe and the Commonwealth
Being at the centre of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the United Nations, the G8 group of major economic powers, and the European Union advances Britain's interests. This does not take away sovereignty but strengthens it. Just as Europe contributed to the end of the Milosevic regime in the former Yugoslavia, Britain and the rest of the Commonwealth have worked to restore democracy in Fiji and Sierra Leone, and engage constructively in Zi…
Racial exclusionism and the city
Politics by other means
Journal Article Politics by other means: law in the struggle against apartheid, 1980–1994 Get access Politics by other means: law in the struggle against apartheid, 1980–1994. By Richard L. Abel. 1995. 644pp. Index. £45.00; ISBN 0 415 90816 7. Pb.: £14.99; ISBN 0 415 90817 5. Peter Hain Peter Hain 1UK Member of Parliament for Neath Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 2, …
The case for the alternative vote
The alternative vote is an attractive, pragmatic alternative to proportional representation argues Peter Hain. The current first‐past‐the‐post system is unfair and the case for electoral reform is strong. But the fatal defect of all the major proportional representation systems is that the scope for local accountability is undermined, and power is sucked upwards to regional or national levels of the party structure. To question the case for PR is…
Britain, Europe and the Commonwealth
Being at the centre of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the United Nations, the G8 group of major economic powers, and the European Union advances Britain's interests. This does not take away sovereignty but strengthens it. Just as Europe contributed to the end of the Milosevic regime in the former Yugoslavia, Britain and the rest of the Commonwealth have worked to restore democracy in Fiji and Sierra Leone, and engage constructively in Zi…
The International Affairs interview
In this the first of a regular series of interviews to appear in International Affairs, Peter Hain, Leader of the House of Commons, talks to Martha Kearney, Political Editor of BBC television's Newsnight about Britain's role in the Convention on the Future of Europe. He talks of the vision Europe can offer to the world, describing it as one of ‘progressive internationalism ... regulated by multilateral agreements’, and the idea of Europe as a uni…
Mandela
Lodge's ‘life’ is different from the others of Mandela that I have read, providing a thorough examination of how Mandela's character developed and how this determined the political decisions that he took. His approach has produced a much shorter book, but one giving more direct access to relevant events without sometimes having to trawl through coverage of fringe activities. Compared with most black South Africans, Nelson Mandela enjoyed a very p…
Signposts to the 2020s
Unless Labour in tandem with other parties of the parliamentary left offers a modernised Keynesian alternative to the neoliberal economic policies of austerity embraced across Europe, there is no prospect of winning again or defeating the right‐wing populism eating into our voter base
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