While dozens of recent books and articles have predicted the near-certainty of China's rise to global supremacy, this book boldly counters such widely-held assumptions. Timothy Beardson brings to light the daunting array of challenges that today confront China, as well as the inadequacy of leadership's responses. Threats to China come from many fronts, Beardson shows, and by their number and sh…
Australia's external relations are being changed dramatically by the emergence of the 'New Asia'. This book seeks to identify and explore the nature and implications of the transformation of Asia for one set of relationships, those with the United States of America.
This book is an account of the state of the relationship between Australia and Indonesia, political security and economic dimensions, domestic development, role of the media, provincial relations and lessons from AFTA and the ANZ-CER
Dinas intelijen terbesar di dunia ini melakukan blunder paling parah dalam sejarah panjang spionase berbohong tentang eksistensi senjata nuklir Irak, yang menjadi basis pengambilan keputusan politik paling keliru dalam sejarah kepresidenan AS, yakni menyerbu Irak sekaligus menumbangkan Presiden Saddam Hussein. Setelah pendudukan di Irak, terbongkar lagi skandal-skandal yang mencoreng wajah AS s…
With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.
This book considers the topical issue of the enlargement processes of the European Union and NATO. The contributors examine issues including: the dual enlargement process and German and Russian relationships with it; NATO and the pan-European security agenda; East European reactions to enlargement; and concepts of security in the new Europe.
There is a stark contradiction between the theory of universal human rights and the everyday practice of human wrongs. This timely volume investigates whether human rights abuses are a result of the failure of governments to live up to a universal human rights standard, or whether the search for moral universals is a fundamentally flawed enterprise which distracts us from the task of developing…
This book by Hamod Awaludin shows clearly the role played by him in bringing together the peace talks in Aceh through the Helsinki Agreement between the Government of Indonesia and GAM. We must give our great thanks to the resolution of the Aceh problem which made a way to build a strong pillar for peace in Aceh in the future within the framework of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesi…
Is Islam compatible with democracy? Must fundamentalism win out in the Middle East, or will democracy ever be possible? In her groundbreaking new book, Moroccan sociologist Fatima Mernissi explores the ways in which people on dramatically opposing sides - feminists and defenders of democracy versus violent fundamentalists - must use the same sacred texts to prove different views. Islam and Demo…
This book contains about exclusive interview and life stories of Ribhi Awad ambassador of Palestine to Jakarta.