This is a book about leaders and leadership, in particular the leaders of the Asia-Pacific. It is based around inter- views I have had with all the leaders profiled here except President Suharto of Indonesia, President Clinton of the United States, and President Lee Teng-hui of Taiwan. With all the other leaders I have had at least one, and mostly several, interviews in the course of covering t…
Living with Dragons is a dispatch from the front-line of Australia's engagement with Asia. It reveals for the first time just what a transforming and pervasive development the 'Asianisation' of Australian life is. Living with Dragons tackles all the hard questions. Australian identity, human rights, economic policy, the environment, defence and security, culture, the business challenge, languag…
This text provides an examination of one of the most controversial issues in Asia today - how the region reconciles its homegrown values with the conflicting and often Western values of modernization, globalization and economic development. In a series of chapters, each devoted to a country, the book explores just what "Asian values" - a highly charged term in modern Asia - means to the individ…