| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0141021454 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0141021454 |
| No of pages | 490 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Penguin UK |
| Published Date | 02 Jul 2009 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0141021454 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0141021454 |
| No of pages | 490 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Penguin UK |
| Published Date | 02 Jul 2009 |
Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH
Graduate of Balliol College, University Oxford (1965).
Among his services, appointments, and honors, he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bath (1979-1992), Minister for Overseas Development at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1986-1989), Secretary of State for the Environment (1989-1992), Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1990-1992), Chairman of the Conservative Party (1990-1992), the last Governor of Hong Kong (1992-1997), appointed a Companion of Honour (CH) by Queen Elizabeth II (1998), Chairman of the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland (1998-1999), Chancellor of Newcastle University (1999-2009), 1999, appointed as one of the UK's two members to the European Commission (1999) and served as Commissioner for External Relations, appointed the European Union's High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (2000-2004), received an honorary LL.D. degree from the University of Bath (2003), Chancellor of the University of Oxford (2003- ), elected a Distinguished Honorary Fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto (2005), received an honorary D.S.Litt. degree from the University of Trinity College, University of Toronto (2005), Toronto, an honorary D.Litt. degree from the University of Ulster (2005), and in 2005 he was also honored with a life peerage as Baron Patten of Barnes, of Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, as a Roman Catholic he played a vital role overseeing the visit of Pope Benedict XVI's to the UK (2010), and served as Chairman of the BBC Trust (2011-2014).
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A Financial Times Book of the Year, Chris Patten's What Next? Surviving the Twenty-First Century is a frank and witty survey of our geopolitical future.
At the start of the twenty-first century, the challenges the world faces seem bewilderingly complex. Gone are the old assurances about the triumph of the West and the free market. But what will take their place?
Here Chris Patten draws on his many years at the highest levels of international affairs to tackle the big questions of our time - from financial turmoil to the energy crisis, immigration to the ascendancy of the East - offering a wise, witty and surprisingly optimistic account of the world today.
'An extremely impressive book ... It is a very long time since a leading British politician produced anything so ambitious, or as well written' - John Gray, Guardian
'Chris Patten is the best Foreign Secretary Britain never had ... An encyclopedia of good sense ... Every thinker on, or practitioner of, international affairs will profit from reading any book that Patten writes' - Denis MacShane, Independent
'Compelling ... If only more world statesmen were like Chris Patten' - John Kampfner, Observer
'Entertaining and wide-ranging ... part history, part opinionated guidebook' - Simon Robinson, Time Magazine
'A brilliant tour d'horizon of a fragmenting world'- Christopher Coker, The Times Literary Supplement
Chris Patten is currently Chairman of the BBC Trust, and Chancellor of Oxford and Newcastle Universities. He is well known for being the last Governor of Hong Kong (1992-97), about which he wrote in East and West (1998). Both that and his most recent book, Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths about World Affairs (2005), were international best-sellers.