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Samuel P. Huntington, ‘The Clash of Civilisations?’, Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993.

See p. 583.

See pp. 490-1.

See Jonathan Sunley’s pamphlet Hungary: The Triumph of Compromise, Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies, 1993.

These issues are examined by Neil Melvin in Forging the New Russian Nation, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Discussion Paper 50, 1994.

See The Downing Street Years, p. 258.

William E. Odom, ‘Strategic Realignment in Europe — NATO’s Obligation to the East’, in NATO — The Case for Enlargement, Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies, 1993.

I had spoken to this effect at the North Atlantic Council in Turnberry in June 1990. See The Downing Street Years , p. 812.

J.L. Esposito, Islam and Politics (New York, 1991), p. 244.

I am grateful to Professor James Q. Wilson for drawing this and a number of other points in this chapter to my attention.

Although I refer to the rising crime and connected problems as a ‘Western’ phenomenon, I do so in full recognition that a virulent crime wave has afflicted the post-communist world. This is largely a matter of infection spread from the West which the post-communist states, lacking effective police forces and the institutions of civil society, Burke’s ‘little platoons’, have been unable to combat. By contrast, in the homogeneous and strongly group-oriented Japanese society, which in this regard is thoroughly un-Western, crime is remarkably low.

See Gertrude Himmelfarb, The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age (London and Boston, 1984).

I am grateful to Professor Gary McDowell, Director of the Institute of United States Studies at London University, for letting me draw upon the proceedings of the Institute’s conference on juvenile crime, Juvenile Justice and the Limits of Social Policy, held in May 1994. I would not, however, wish to suggest that the experts who presented papers at that conference would necessarily agree with my conclusions.

‘Letter to a Member of the National Assembly’ (1791), Reflections on the Revolution in France and Other Essays, Everyman edition, pp. 281-2.

I am grateful to the contributors to a National Review Institute Conference, which I chaired in December 1993, on this theme for their insights.

James Q. Wilson, Thinking About Crime (New York, 1983), pp. 117-24.

Ernest Van Den Haag, ‘How to Cut Crime’, National Review, 30 May 1994.

See pp. 121-2.

In January 1994 the Government announced a limited but welcome tightening of the rules on local authority housing allocation to help tackle the problem of queue-jumping by single parents.

This research is summarized in a Centre for Policy Studies pamphlet, Divorce Dissent, by Ruth Deech (1994).

See The Downing Street Years, pp. 132-9.

See The Downing Street Years, pp. 699-707.

Gerrard and National Monthly Economic Review, April 1991.

Patrick Minford, The Supply Side Revolution in Britain, Institute of Economic Affairs, 1991. I have also described this more fully myself in The Downing Street Years, pp. 668-87.

See The Downing Street Years, pp. 589-617.

One of the best summaries of the evidence is that of N.F.R. Crafts, ‘Reversing Relative Economic Decline? The 1980s in Historical Perspective’, Oxford Review of Economic Polity, Volume 7, No. 3, 1991.

For example, the Treasury Bulletin (Winter 1991/92, Vol. 3, Issue 1) shows the remarkable improvement in the productivity and finances of the nine largest (once-) nationalized industries over the period.

For a full and persuasive defence of the Reagan record against the criticisms made of it, see National Review, 31 August 1992.

See pp. 538-9.

Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Rise of Christian Europe (1965), pp. 23-4.

Ralph Raico, ‘The Theory of Economic Development and “The European Miracle” ‘, in The Collapse of Development Planning, ed. Peter Boettke (New York University, 1994), p. 41.

Hernando de Soto, The Other Path (London, 1989).

N.R. Evans, ‘Antipodean Economics: Up from Down Under’, National Review, 29 August 1994.

George B.N. Ayittey, ‘The Failure of Development Planning in Africa’, in The Collapse of Development Planning, ed. Peter Boettke (New York University, 1994).

See p. 525.

I am grateful to Peter Anwyl-Harris and GT Management pic for much of the following information.

This is described in The Downing Street Years, pp. 489-90.

These reforms are well described by Jeffrey Sachs in Poland’s Jump to the Market Economy (London, 1994).

Marek Matraszek, Poland: The Politics of Restoration, Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies, 1994.

This survey, part of the study New Democracies Barometer III, is reproduced in the magazine Business Central Europe, October 1994, p. 80.

See p. 599.

Milton Friedman, ‘Out of Bretton Woods: Free-Floating Anxiety’, National Review, 12 September 1994.

See Sir James Goldsmith’s powerfully argued book The Trap (London, 1994).

I am grateful to Professor Patrick Minford for drawing my attention to this research, which he has conducted.

Brian Hindley, The Goldsmith Fallacy, Centre for Policy Studies, December 1994, p. 27.

Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Gods of the Copybook Headings’ (1919).