Contents: Introduction The Pacific Basin : Disversity and Unifying Factors The Pacific Basin : Source of Strain A Concluding note.
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Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at two of the biggest challenges we face today: the global environmental crisis and America's surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11. It is a groundbreaking account of where we stand now, and shows us how the solutions to these two big problems are linked- how we can restore the world and revive America at the same time.
Friedman brilliantly demystifies the exciting, often bewildering, global scene unfolding before our eyes, one which we sense but barely yet understand. With his inimitable ability to simplify complex political and economic issues, he explains how this flattening of the world happened; what it will mean for countries, communities and individuals; and how governments and societies can - and must …
This book is a product of the Expert Roundtable Discussion on the topic "The Road to Ratification and Implementation of the ASEAN Charter", jointly organised by the ASEAN Studies Centre (ASC) of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) and the Habibie Centre, on 17 July 2008 in Jakarta. The objective of the discussion was to illuminate the provisions of the ASEAN Charter and its strengt…
The focus of this book is on the interaction between the European Community and national policy-making. Traditionally policy- making has been analysed within a national or a comparative framework in which the EC has mainly been regarded as an external factor. Here the European political system itself becomes the unit of analysis.
The book provides an acute and sustained analysis of the very idea of fear of the role of fear as an instrument of political rule and of its unac knowledged prevalence within our liberal democratic institutions. He makes a powerful case against those who defend a liberalism of fear and who contend that fear can be a source of moral and political regeneration
For more than forty years, the United States has played an indispensable role helping the Chinese government build a booming economy, develop its scientific and military capabilities, and take its place on the world stage, in the belief that China's rise will bring us cooperation, diplomacy, and free trade. Contents: 1. The China dream 2. Warring state 3. Only China could go to Nixon 4. M…