Jacques Hannebicque's "Madagascar: Mon-île-au-bout-du-monde" is a documentary work that combines personal narrative, anthropological observation, and beautiful photography to depict the island of Madagascar as a world unto itself at the edge of the ocean. With contributions from figures such as Robert Boudry, Flavien Ranaivo, Jean-Aimé Rakotoarisoa, and Eugène Toulet, the book presents a com…
Buku ini merupakan jilid kedua dari seri Bunga Rampai Wawasan Nusantara yang berisi kumpulan tulisan konseptual tentang cara pandang bangsa Indonesia terhadap wilayah, bangsa, serta lingkungan strategisnya. Dihimpun oleh Lembaga Ketahanan Nasional (Lemhannas), buku ini membahas dasar-dasar pemikiran geopolitik Indonesia, integrasi nasional, ketahanan nasional, strategi pembangunan, serta tantan…
Buku Irian Jaya: The Transformation of a Melanesian Economy karya Ross Garnaut dan Chris Manning membahas perubahan sosial ekonomi yang terjadi di Irian Jaya (Papua) sejak awal integrasinya ke Indonesia. Penulis menganalisis proses transformasi ekonomi masyarakat Melanesia, meliputi sektor pertanian, migrasi, tenaga kerja, perdagangan, hingga dampak kebijakan pembangunan pemerintah. Dengan data…
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…