Book(electronic)2013

Transformational diplomacy after the Cold War: Britain's Know How Fund in post-communist Europe 1989-2003

In: Whitehall histories: Foreign and Commonwealth Office publications

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Abstract

This book examines the 'Know How Fund', Britain's bilateral technical assistance programme in post-communist central and eastern Europe, devised in response to the end of the Cold War.The Know How Fund (KHF) was the technical assistance programme which Margaret Thatcher's government launched in the spring of 1989 to encourage Poland's transition from communism to democracy and free-market capitalism. It was subsequently extended to other countries of central and eastern Europe and might be considered a novel experiment in what the US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, would later.

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