Ministers in Ulster: The Machinery of Direct Rule

Lord Windlesham Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords, was until recently Minister of State for Northern Ireland. This article is the revised text of a lecture he gave at The New University of Ulster on 26 April 1973. The lecture was delivered as one of a series of six, arranged by the Department of Social Administration at The New University, which have since been published as Occasional Papers. I would like to acknowledge the kindness of Professor H. Griffiths in agreeing so readily to the proposal to reproduce Lord Windlesham's contribution to this series of lectures in 'Public Administration'. (Hon. Editor.)     

Britain and the Middle East

The address that follows was given before a joint meeting ofthe Royal African Society and the Royal Commonwealth Societyon December 4 1958. Mr. Richard Goold- Adams took the Chair     

The Last Nine Years in Tanganyika

Princess Alice, President of the Royal African Society, waspresent to hear this address given by the former Governor ofTanganyika to a joint meeting of the Royal African Society andthe Royal Commonwealth Society on October 2 1958, Colonel SirCharles Ponsonby Bt. was in the chair.     

Kosovo Defines the West

Kosovo is a proxy war with the Holocaust. As such, this war and its outcome will do much to define the West in the next century That it is a war in Europe, for Europe, sets it apart from all the other tragedies from Rwanda to Kashmir. Our collage of comment on this subject ranges from the secretary general of NATO to the leader of the Kosovars in Albania.     

An indirect legitimacy argument for a directly elected European Parliament

Can a directly elected European Parliament help deliver standards by which the European Union can be indirectly legitimated through its component national democracies? This article argues that the Union can be indirectly legitimate where it helps member state democracies meet their own obligations to their own publics. The Union can do just that by managing externalities in ways needed to secure core values of justice, democracy and freedom from arbitrary domination within member states. Yet that poses a predicament: for if any one member state has an interest in imposing negative externalities or in freeriding on positive externalities provided by another, then so may its voters and democratic institutions. The article argues a directly elected European Parliament can help manage that predicament both by identifying externalities and by ensuring their regulation meets standards of public control, political equality and justification owed to individual national democracies.     

Colonies and World Organisation

This article by the Vice-Chairman of Council was written inresponse to an invitation to sum up the results of the symposiumon Mandates in the Journal last October.     

THE SHIFTING STATE: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN A TIME OF CHANGE

This is the keynote address given by the Right Hon The Lord Scarman, OBE, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and the RIPA's President, at the Institute's Conference on'The Shifting State: Rules, Roles and Boundaries in the 198s', held at the University of Aston, 14–15 September 1984.