This book for a police officer busy in monitoring the Indo-Tibetan border to undertake research in an intricate aspects of constitutional law is certainly an event for special recognition.
In Southeast Asia, patterns of relationship between regional coun- tries and major powers have always been the main issue in discussions on security arrangement. In this book, Dewi Fortuna Anwar specifically discusses Indonesia's relations with major powers- China and Japan. She also examines Indonesia's role and position in several security issues in Southeast Asia during the 1980s. This prese…
Paths to Peace: The UN Security Council and its Presidency documents the works, experiences, and roles of the former presidents of the UN Security Council, which is one of the principal organs of the UN. This book first characterizes the council, including the evolution of its practice and the scope of consensus. This text then describes the scope of power of a president of the council, which i…
In November 2008, the Regional Economic Studies Programme of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) and the Singapore office of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada organised a forum on "Regional Economic Integration - ASEAN and Canadian Perspectives". The forum concluded that fundamentally the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) and the North American Free Trade Ag…
This is a book about leaders and leadership, in particular the leaders of the Asia-Pacific. It is based around inter- views I have had with all the leaders profiled here except President Suharto of Indonesia, President Clinton of the United States, and President Lee Teng-hui of Taiwan. With all the other leaders I have had at least one, and mostly several, interviews in the course of covering t…
We are living in an age when people and peoples with an interest in politics are particulary concerned by the question whether their states are losing their absolute sovereighty and are being constrained to submit to transnational, indeed now global interdependence. This book may have the calming effect of showing them with example to contemporary statesmanship that there is nothing either new,…
The age of ocean discovery is not yet over, and new theories about ocean processes and system and marine resource potencial are still being advanced and tested.
Salah satu persoalan terbesar yang dihadapi bangsa ini adalah penegakan supremasi hukum. Hukum tidak pernah ditempatkan di posisi yang terhormat, dan bahkan lebih sering diabaikan. Pelanggaran hukum bahkan tidak hanya dilakukan masyarakat, tetapi juga oleh pemerintah. Itulah penyebab utama krisis multidimensi yang membelit bangsa ini. Dalam buku ini dikaji secara komprehensif bentuk- bentuk pel…
This new textbook provides an introduction to human rights in international relations at the turn of the twenty-first century. It examines the policy-making process that establishes and tries to apply human rights norms through the UN, regional organizations, state foreign policy, human rights groups, and transnational corporations. It documents the many changes in international human rights du…
Economic regionalization and economic regionalism have become an important item in the national, regional and international agenda of almost alla countries in the Asia Pacific region. Economic regionalism has many forms, as it may be driven by different kinds of forces. The ASEAN countries are engaged in a growing number of regional economic cooperation arrangements.