Contents: I. The Balance of Power: Theory and Practice II. The Balance of Power in Asia III. Power and Growth and Regional Order IV. The Dynamics of Great-Power Strength V. Towards a New Balance of Power VI. A Strategy for Middle Powers
Set up under the Labour Government in 1948 and clandestinely financed from the Secret Intelligence Service budget, the Information Research Department waged a vigorous covert propaganda campaign against Communism around the world. IRD was a large organization with close links to Ml6 with whom it shared many personnel. Parliament, had it known of the true purpose of IRD's existence, may well hav…
The end of certainty is about power, personality and national destiny. It is the story of how the 1980s have changed Australia and political parties forever and why there is no going back. The tale is one of political struggle, financial excess and economic boom and bust.
In this wide-ranging analysis of global politics over the past five centuries, Yale historian Paul Kennedy focuses on the critical relationship of economic to military power as it affects the rise and fall of empires.
This is a book about people. It is not a book of opinion. It is a book of stories. The stories were collected during five months of travel in 1995 in four non-Arab Muslim countries-Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia. So there is a context and a theme.
The bulky Volksraad material contains a wealth of information on political, social and economic matters, including speeches by Eurasians representatives and the Dutch and/or Indonesian reactions to them.