The book deals perceptively and compassionately with very old problem in a very new human response to human cruelty. The author's concern in the book is mainly with a small but important, poignant and neglected sector-the victims of terrorism and how we can help them. It is intended to seek ways to understand the experience, to ameliorate the suffering, and when possible, to prevent it. There i…
This book explores how dramatically the face of terrorism has changed in the last decade. Instead of resisting globalization, terrorist groups have taken full advantage of the widespread availability of communication technologies, inexpensive travel, porous borders, privatization of security, and access to saturated weapons markets to grow rapidly in strength, size, and reach. Many rag-tag grou…
This topical and important book comes at time when India's position on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) has aroused controversy in International for a, when the international order and its attendant security compulsions are undergoing significant changes, and when the world is taking rapid technological strides.
What is being done to counter threats of maritime terrorism and how effective are the safeguards? The author presents evidence that Al-Qaeda aims to disrupt the seaborne trading system, the backbone of the model global economy, and would use a crude nuclear explosive device or radiological bomb to do so if it could obtain one and position it to go off in a port-city, shipping strait or waterway…
The Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2009 analyses how three global crises of 2008 – Great Recession in developed countries, food and fuel price volatility and climate change - threaten the development in the Asia-Pacific region. The publication also talks about subregional variations in performance and policy responses. It concludes with converging crises and redirecting po…
This book is a pioneering effort to address the conditions prevailing in a traditional society that is opening up to change and modernization. The book explains: 1. The geography of Nepal 2. The people of Nepal 3. Society and religion 4. The Nepalese personality 5. Art and literature.
This book is about wars and anti-wars to come. It is for the Bosnian child whose face has been half ripped away by explosives, and for his mother staring with glazed eyes at what is left. It is for all the innocents of tomorrow who will both kill and die for reasons they do not understand . It is a book about peace. Which means it is a book about war in the startling new conditions we are creat…
Buku ini terdiri atas dua bagian yang secara umum memaparkan latar belakang topik-topik utama seputar peran diaspora dalam pembangunan jangka panjang, mekanisme-mekanisme dan saluran-saluran untuk derma diaspora, inovasi-inovasi, kaitan-kaitan, lingkungan yang memberikan peluang lalu akhirnya tindakan-tindakan nyata yang dapat diambil untuk mendorong pergeseran ke derma yang lebih strategis.
In The Next War, former U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and bestselling author Peter Schweizer dramatize the outbreak, progress, and outcome of major wars most likely to occur over the next dozen years. To predict the performance of U.S. forces - and the outcome for America and her allies - the authors use the latest and most authoritative assessments of our technological resources, tr…
Buku ini menawarkan teori-teori yang selaras dengan perkembangan nyata ekonomi dunia saat ini yang kian interdependent dan global, dan juga membahas kasus-kasus konkrit secara populer sehingga mempermudah pembaca memahami penjelasan teoritis yang relatif abstrak. Buku ini mempunyai isi: 1. Produktivitas tenaga kerja dan keunggulan komparatif: Model Ricardo 2. Faktor-faktor produksi spesifi…