sebuah buku otobiografi tentang kegelisahan seorang Sulastomo yang pada tanggal 6 Agustus 2000 genap berusia 62 tahun. Berbeda dengan sistema- tika buku-buku otobiografi selama ini, penyusunan buku ini unik.
Sebagai dosen Kebijakan Publik, saya menyambut amat baik aneka tulisan pak Faisal pada buku ini, bukan saja karena tulisan-tulisan beliau menyajikan kasus berbagai isu dan kebijakan bidang politik dan ekonomi, tetapi juga karena uraian, atau perumusan masalah substantifnya dalam bahasa analis kebijakan, yang direkam penulis didukung oleh data yang lengkap dan mutahir. Selain itu penafsiran beli…
Buku ini adalah hasil studi tentang tempat seorang pemimpin politik di Indonesia dengan basis kekuatan (politik) yang unik dan nonkonvensional: ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi dengan munculnya basis kekuatan politik pada diri seseorang. Sesuai dengan itu, maka tujuan utama karya ini adalah mengelaborasi penjelasan hubungan kausal antara kedua variabel di atas.
This book contains the first comprehensive study of nepalese voters. Sponsored by Danish Development Aid, it is on hour-long interviews with one thousand nepalese voters spared over the himalayan kingdom. the survey was conducted immediately after teh general election in May 1991.
The book explains the paradox that is Sri Lanka. If the island nation has not lived up to the promise of its early years of independence, it is because of the assault made on the fundamentals of a stable political order with its emphasis on pluralism and secularism by those emphasising an ethnic identity based on language and religion. The problems of governance have been complicated by the per…
Awalnya, Robert Baer iseng-iseng saja ketika melamar menjadi anggota CIA (Dinas Intelijen Amerika). Tetapi ketika lamarannya diterima, dengan sepenuh hati ia mengikuti pelatihan dan akhirnya ditugaskan menjadi agen lapangan di berbagai belahan dunia, yang tidak semua lokasinya dengan mudah bisa kita jumpai di Atlas Dunia.
This volume focuses on minority discourse (be it based on region, religion, caste, gender or culture) in contemporary India; and its interaction with the state and society at large. Centrally concerned with the refractions of class rather than class per se, the basic themes have been selected to show how different identifiers of social groups combine, overlap and interpenetrate in politics. At …
Roy challenges the idea that only experts can speak out on such urgent matters as nuclear war, the tolls of privatization of India's power supply by U.S.-based energy companies, and the construction of monumental dams in India, which promises the dislocation of hundreds of thousands of people. In Power Politics, she takes us to the frontlines of struggle for social justice and a humane, de…
The present study attempts to examine the attitudes of the South- East Asian and the South Pacific Countries towards the Indian Ocean Power Politics. Though the major thrust is on South-East Asian and South Pacific countries, the study of Indian Ocean power politics will be incomplete without the understanding of the major powers who are involved in it Hence the big powers" involvement in the I…
Our main purpose is to encourage a focussed debate and discussion on such issues so that the peoples of South Asia as well as the policy community put them high on their agenda. That step by itself could provide hope for the Individual citizen in South Asia whose quality of life evokes a sense of despair in the region