Böcker av Robin Renwick

A riveting and entertaining memoir of life behind the scenes as Britain's ambassador to the US and South Africa, with revealing portraits of some of the giants of international politics over the last forty years.

Marking thirty years since the end of George H. W. Bush's presidency, Robin Renwick paints a warm, affectionate portrait of a President who sought to unify rather than divide his country, and whose staunch belief in diplomacy strengthened cooperation around the world.

Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first First Lady to have her own office in the West Wing of the White House and the only First Lady ever to be subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury. Upon leaving the White House, she was elected as the first female Senator for New York, then served as one of America's most popular Secretaries of State. Will she now become the first female President of the United States? Hillary is poised to decide whether she will launch a fresh attempt to take the highest office in the world and make history in doing so. But what is Hillary really like? Will she run? Can she win? What can the world expect from Hillary if she does get back to the White House? What sort of President would she be? Robin Renwick, who was the British ambassador in Washington when the Clintons arrived in the White House, seeks to answer these questions and more in this vivid portrait of one of the most polarising and central figures in recent US political history.

Originally published by Palgrave in 1996, this timely and significantly updated edition covers the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Britain and America's ongoing participation in conflicts in the Middle East, their responses to the emergence of ISIL, and the weakening of Britain's military capabilities.

The vertiginous decline in political leadership from Nelson Mandela to Jacob Zuma has engulfed South Africa in a serious crisis over the past `lost decade'.

An insider's account of the negotiations which ended the Rhodesia conflict and of the British role in South Africa in the period leading up to the release of Nelson Mandela.

The incredible story of the lone female Jewish MP who stood up to apartheid.

An important document of the former Prime Minister and her foreign policy by one of her closest advisers at the time.