In line with recent reviews of policy by Aung San Suu Kyi and the U.S. Government, ASEAN's Myanmar Crisis: Challenges to the Pursuit of a Security Community provides a clear and innovative analysis of why it is necessary to reassess regional and international approaches to Myanmar. For the first time, this book also reveals the full extent to which Myanmar has challenged the solidarity and deve…
Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM) pasca MoU Helsinki telah menjelma sebagai kekuatan politik, ekonomi dan sosial baru di Aceh. GAM telah berubah sebagai kekuatan sipil yang paling memiliki pengaruh dalam konstelasi politik-pemerintahan, bisnis dan hubungan sosial di Aceh saat ini.
There is a nascent war between American power and the European Union and, its allies, over domestic and international socio-political organisation. The Americans have a more marked disposition towards realism, power and liberal economics. Europe and Canada prefer a state managed economy, equality. social cohesion, post-modern rhetoric and international dialogue In such confrontation we have the…
Keith Payne begins by asking, "Did we really learn how to deter predictably and reliably during the Cold War?" He answers cautiously in the negative, pointing out that we know only that our policies toward the Soviet Union did not fail. What we can be more certain of, in Payne's view, is that such policies will almost assuredly fail in the Second Nuclear Age―a period in which direct nuclear t…
The Stockholm Initiative on Global Security and Governance brings out the most urgent themes from the international indepen- dent commissions of the 1980's, chaired by Willy Brandt and Olof Palme, by Gro Harlem Brundtland and Julius Nyerere. The memorandum on COMMON RESPONSIBILITY IN THE 1990's focuses on major areas for multilateral cooperation and on ways and means to strengthen international…
In Navigating a New World Lloyd Axworthy charts how we can become active citizens in the demanding world of the twenty-first century, to make it safer, more sustainable and more humane. Throughout he emphasizes the human story. As we meet refugees from civil war and drought, child soldiers and landmine victims, the moral imperative is clear: this is a deeply compassionate appeal to confront pov…
A related adjustment in American policy toward China has been the extent to which the United States has re-initiated a high-level dialogue with the PRC President Bush, perhaps because he did not want to be seen as being too soft on China in the wake of the Tiananmen incident, suspended a high-level dialogue with Beijing. Under President Clinton, to some extent perhaps because the Administration…
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait marked a major watershed in the modern history of the Middle East with consequences that are likely to affect the whole region for decades to come. But nowhere has the impact of the Gulf War been more immediately and profoundly felt than among the member states of the Gulf Co-operation Council - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. I…
By examining ethnic tensions in Southeast Asia the book provides an analysis of one of the security dilemma's most recent utilisations. In particular, the book adds to the growing literature on the security dilemma and ethnic conflict by locating the analysis of ethnic tensions in Burma and Malaysia, among others, within the security literature of the Third World. In intra-ASEAN relations the…
Perang proxy (Proxy War) merupakan kepanjangan tangan suatu negara berupaya mendapatkan kepentingan strategisnya di negara lain. Namun, mereka menghindari keterlibatan secara langsung dengan menggelar perang yang mahal dan berdarah. Di dunia, proxy war sudah berlangsung lama, terutama negara-negara di kawasan Timur Tengah. Wilayah Timur Tengah hingga sekarang merupakan kawasan yang tidak pernah…