This publication offers a comprehensive review of Brunei Darussalam's achievements regarding the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), analyzing the country's performance across the eight defined global targets for the period leading up to 2015. The report documents that Brunei Darussalam successfully reached or is on track to achieve almost all MDG targets, notably eradicating ex…
Japan’s evolving political and economic role in shaping the postwar and contemporary East Asian regional order. Hellmann examines how Japan’s rapid economic growth, security partnership with the United States, and increasing regional engagement influenced the balance of power in East Asia. The book explores Japan’s interactions with major regional actors—including China, Korea, and Sout…
From the first outbreak of hostilities in northern China in 1937 to the Japanese surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in 1945, this book recreates the decade of upheaval when China was caught in the grip of revolution and war and torn from its feudal past. The authors, Time-Life correspondents during the war years, report firsthand on the rise and fall of the Kuomintang nationalist government a…
Jewel from Heaven: Portrait of Religious Lives in Indonesia presents an in-depth look at religious life in Indonesia, a country known for its ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity. This book illustrates how religion—whether Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, or local beliefs—colors people's daily lives and shapes social identities in various regions.
"Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial trading post is a thriving Asian metropolis?" "The story of that transformation is told here by Lee Kuan Yew. Rising from a legacy of divisive colonialism, the devastation of the Second World War, and general poverty and disorder following the withdr…
This book provides a comprehensive Israeli study and survey of the Palestine Liberation Organisation considering its strategy and tactics, ideology and history. It describes the internal struggles and disputes and the splits and mergers and analyses its organisational structure. It also investigates the PLO's external relations with the Arab world, Iran, China, the USSR, the USA and Western Europe
As NPR's senior foreign correspondent, Anne Garrels has covered conflicts in Chechnya, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. She is renowned for direct, down-to-earth, insightful reportage, and for her independent take on what she sees. One of only sixteen un-embedded American journalists who stayed in Baghdad's now-legendary Palestine Hotel throughout the American invasion of Iraq, she w…
This volume brings together nine essays that explore Singapore’s pre-colonial history through a rich combination of maps, historical texts, and archaeological artefacts. It argues that the island, known as Temasek, was already an important regional port and trading hub centuries before Stamford Raffles arrived in 1819. Through excavation findings such as ceramics, coins, and glassware the aut…
Explores the historical foundations that shaped Japan’s transformation into a modern nation. Lehmann examines key developments from the late Tokugawa period, the Meiji Restoration, and Japan’s rapid modernization, emphasizing the social, political, and economic forces that influenced the country’s evolution. The book highlights how traditional values interacted with Western ideas to creat…
First in a series on The Middle East Confrontation States, this Handbook pro- vides a factual background account of Syria's history, government, ideology, economy and population; its inter-Arab relations and its relations with the Soviet Union and the international community. The Syria-Israel conflict is described in detail. Included are a Directory of political personalities, organizations and…