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Shared Destinies:
Security in a globalised world
ISBN: 9781860303227
Author: ippr Commission on National Security in the 21st Century
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Price: £15.99
Publication Date: 27 November 2008
This is the interim report of the ongoing ippr Commission on National Security in the 21st Century, an all-party Commission preparing an independent national security strategy for the UK.
In this report, the Commission seeks to lay the foundations for a re-think of UK national security strategy for the first quarter of this century and to provide a constructive challenge to the policies and activities already being taken forward by government. We examine long term drivers of change including globalisation, demographic change, global poverty and inequality, climate change, and scientific and technological change and go on to identify threats, to set out a series of principles that should underpin our response, and to offer some initial policy recommendations.
These recommendations focus on two main areas:
Our report is both a warning and a call to action. We face serious and worsening international security challenges but provided we are willing to learn lessons, to change the way we think, to find the necessary political will and to adapt our policy solutions and instruments to new circumstances, there is much that can be done. We offer this interim report as a contribution to the necessary process of policy change that must now unfold.

Capable Communities
Public Service Reform: The next chapter
In this paper we turn our attention to the role citizens and communities can play in directly producing services, setting out the challenges that lie ahead, and identifying the questions our research will seek to answer over the coming months.
The English Question
ippr surveys MPs

ippr has conducted a survey of MPs to find out if they think that England is losing out as a result of these changes, as many people have claimed.
You Can’t Put Me In A Box
Super-diversity and the end of identity politics in Britain

This paper attempts to map out just how diverse Britain is, both in terms of who lives in Britain and how they identify themselves.