The positive reception the publication of Swiss Democracy received two years ago demonstrated the large public interest in Switzerland. As few English publications on Swiss polity and politics exist, political science colleagues use the book as a basic reference and a concise introduction, mainly to explain the sense and the functioning of consensus democracy, power sharing or federalism. Sever…
This book aims to record this privileged moment of an immense effort made throughout the country to discard the old order of things. The time has not yet come to draw lessons from this experience, but the time is ripe for recording what has been the experience of a society dormant for many centuries and brutally thrown into the maelstrom of history.
War & Peace on the Korean Peninsula (pp. 1-11) by Kevin Rudd; Apocalypse Next: Will Asia become the Next Arena for Great Power Conflict? (pp. 12-17) by Greg Austin; Great Power Relations and the issue of Taiwan in the Asia-Pacific (pp. 18-23) by Malcolm Fraser; Human Security in Development and Crisis: How to Capture Human Security in Regional Institutional Arrangements? (pp. 24-34) by Micha…
A wide ranging investigation into the workings of the KGB, covering the manipulation of Egyptian President Nasser; the attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro; the campaign to intimidate journalists and silence dissent within the Soviet Union: the assistance given to IRA Provisionals; the wide scale infiltration of American Installations to steal hundreds of secret documents; the attempt to take o…
A few days from now, a Conference of Foreign Ministers will be held in Manila to discuss the possibilities of a Treaty Organization for Southeasta Asia and the Southwest Pacific. The countries represented in this Conference are: Pakistan, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, France, Great Britain, the United States and the Philippines. What has brought these Govenments together in this Conference …
This book contains stone and bronze age monuments which were thoroughly studied by the author. All cultural objects and material art were obtained as a result of archaeological work through expeditions equipped with scientific excavation methods.
The rule of law is the most important political ideal today, yet there is much confusion about what it means and how it works. This book explores the history, politics, and theory surrounding the rule of law ideal, beginning with classical Greek and Roman ideas, elaborating on medieval contributions to the rule of law, and articulating the role played by the rule of law in liberal theory and li…
What is the CIA really up to? What does ita do, and why? No other arm of the United States government is so shrouded in mystery. or so self-willed and independently powerful. There have been other books about the CIA,a but never before has there been one which laid bare the facts so explicitly and with such authority as this. Written from first-handa knowledge by Victor Marchetti, a senior CIA …
Buku Komunikasi Politik ini terbit pada saat maraknya aktivitas politik dalam bentuk unjuk rasa, perdebatan di lembaga legislatif, pembahasan undang-undang politik legislatif dan pre siden, kampanye pemilihan kepala daerah (Pilkada), diskusi politik di kampus-kampus dan warung kopi, pelatihan kader partai dan semacamnya. Semua fenomena ini menunjukkan bahwa politik yang tadinya sebagai area yan…
Book Megatrends (1982) sold more than 8 million copies world wide and remained at the top of the bestseller lists for two years. That book, and Megatrends 2000, established John Naisbitt as one of the world's foremost forecasters of social, economic, political and cultural trends. In those books, he accurately predicted trends ranging from the globalisation of the econo- my to the surging Impac…