Indonesian politics under Suharto is readable, well-informed, and judicious introduction to the 'New Order', and the figures who have shaped it. The author brings to his subject not only a command of available Western studies on the country, but a wealth of previously unpublished interviews with retired or deposed political and military personalities.
This book is a companion volume to A Foreign Policy for India, which received the attention of scholars and practitioners of diplomacy. This book too stems from a long-felt desire to share my experiences, observations and assessments of the evolving world situation and India's responses to them at crucial times in our recent history.
In this book of specially commissioned essays, twenty world leaders assess the possibilities and perils of the new strategic, political, and economic interrelationships that are emerging around the world. They tackle such fundamental questions as: What is the future of the international system as we approach the twenty-first century? What will be the fate of disintegrating nation-states, and ho…
The premise of this paper is that the international human rights movement is facing growing problems of irrelevance to people's daily concerns, marginalisation in local and global politics, and cooptation by ruling elites, privileged classes and global economic forces in local as well as global politics. In order to resolve these problems, the movement needs to critically re-examine some of its…
Built on declared principles of partnership and respect for sovereignty, and successful in gaining legitimacy in the international community, the new model seems to offer a legitimate way to engage in state-building intervention. The book mounts a critique of these claims, showing how international legitimacy does not automatically translate into political legitimacy among those in the affected…
Forum Komunikasi Untuk Perempuan Loro Sae (Fokupers) adalah sebuah lembaga swadaya masyarakat yang memiliki kepedulian terhadap masalah ketidakadilan dan kekerasan terhadap perempuan. Fokupers didirikan pada bulan Juni 1997 oleh 15 orang perempuan dan laki-laki dari berbagai latar belakang status sosial yang berbeda, yaitu aktivis LSM, mahasiswa, pekerja sosial, pegawai negeri sipil, dan peremp…
Il porte sur l'histoire récente, faite de ces bouleversements politiques qui ont caractérisé la période 1990-1993 et des jeux et stratégies des différents acteurs.
Buku ini merupakan kumpulan tulisan yang pernah dan belum pernah dimuat di media masa. Sebagian merupakan pengantar beberapa buku sejarah. Sedang sebagian lainnya terdiri dari tinjauan buku terutama yang terbit setelah era reformasi 1998. Substansi yang dibahas merefleksikan perkembangan sejarah Indonesia mutakhir, sebagian besar buku yang dibicarakan itu tergolong kategori terlarang pada masa …
Buku ini tidak hendak menunjukkan bagaimana media-massa menjadi medium yang tidak netral, atau bagaimana ia dikooptasi oleh oknum-oknum oilgarki tertentu sebagaimana yang sudah jenuh kita dengar sehari-hari. Buku ini justru mencoba menyibak misteri mediasi-massal demokrasi ini, yaitu di spesifisitas bentuk dan isi dari demokrasi yang dimediasi-massal tersebut.
In Climate Change and Environmental Hazards Related to Shipping the editors offer an overview on the recent discussions regarding legal questions of tackling climate change and the legal instruments related to environmental problems caused by international shipping.