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Nothing is conceivable without the power of the state. Social imagination therefore needs its supply to be met with demand from politicians, and imaginative ideas need to be shaped in ways that can be fitted into manifestos, speeches and programmes, or turned into laws, experiments and pilots. That demand has to come from politicians or officials w

Pierre Bourdieu observed that "the specifically symbolic power to impose the principles of the construction of reality-in particular, social reality-isa major dimension of political power" (Bourdieu 1977:165).

Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Building a Learning Organisation over Responding to change over following a plan

was sure I wanted to call it “Transcendence in a Secular World” accompanied by a subtitle that included Asian traditions and sustainability.

The tropes of "training" and "political maturation," basic components of the European mission civilisatrice, had been deployed by Britain, the United States, and

Good governance includes the pursuit of national interest regardless of theories or ideologies. Good government is pragmatic government.

This prompted me to review many of the hundreds of books published each year on society, economics and politics. While many offer a striking diagnosis, most offer little in the way of prescription, which is usually left to a final chapter.

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