When Shrimps Learn to Whistle: Signposts For the Nineties - Softcover

When Shrimps Learn to Whistle: signposts for the nineties

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 304 pages. Cover wornThe Soviet Union would abandon its communist principles, Khrushchev once boas ted, only 'when shrimps learnt to whistle'. Now that Gorbachev has taught his sh rimps to whistle, can Western politicians cope with the challenges of a wholly u nchartered new world?All the major institutions of the post-war scene - NATO, th e European Community, the United Nations - have been turned upside down. The sto ck-market crash of 'Black October' 1987 revealed the desperate instabilities of the global financial system. In this maze of intricate new problems and opportun ities Denis Healey speaks with unique authority. A major political journalist in the late 1940s and 1950s, a leading player on the world stage for a quarter-cen tury, he is now far and away the most distinguished Opposition commentator on fo reign affairs. His hugely successful The Time of My Life - 'the best political a utobiography since Rab Butler's eighteen years ago' (Roy Jenkins, Observer) - wa s widely acclaimed as a masterpiece. Taking up the most powerful political theme s that emerge from it Denis Healey now gives us this stimulating companion volum e. In an added new chapter he looks at the wider implications of the Gulf War, t he unification of East and West Germany, and the continuing unrest in Eastern Eu rope. In When Shrimps Learn to Whistle he offers a typically trenchant set of 's ignposts' to help us all face the key international issues of the 1990s.'Forty-t hree years of ruminations . by the greatest foreign secretary (as the author q uietly and reasonably implies) we never had' - Ben Pimlott in the New Statesman & Society. Artikel-Nr. 3307ar

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