The international financial crisis of 1997-1999 commands attention as the most important international economic event since the oil shocks of the 1970s and the subsequent debt crisis. Its unfamiliar character reflects an increasingly liberalized world economy. This volume focuses on political explanations of economic policies and institutional changes as they actually occurred: What…
This outstanding work is an annual analytical review and assessment of security-related events around the world. The significant events of the year are examined in their political contexts, and the trends for international security are identified. The book, consisting of factual accounts, analysis, and background data, is organized both by topic (arms control or strategic policy issues, for exa…
Strategic Survey provides an annual analytical review and assessment of security-related events around the world. The significant events of the year are examined in their political contexts and the trends for international security identified. Factual accounts, analysis, and background data form a work invaluable for interpreting worldwide strategic developments. The material is organized both …
An annual retrospective review and assessment of security related events around the world. The first section covers strategic policy issues (ballistic missile attack prevention, military transformation, nuclear non-proliferation, future of peacekeeping). Subsequent sections examine issues at a regional level. The Asia section covers China, Japan, Korean peninsula, and Southeast Asia. There are …
It is a book with ten sub-chapters that cover everything from the security situation to military confidence-building, arms control, and disarmament. In the early decades of the twenty-first century, the international community entered a new period of openness and collaboration while also dealing with crises and change. Sharing growth possibilities and confronting obstacles via collaborative eff…
This handbook provides basic information on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), its organization and the various co-operation activities associated with it. The emphasis here is on economic co-operation. Although such information is available in many forms, it is mostly scattered in official documents and various literature on ASEAN. There is, thus, a need to provide the basic i…
From colonial times until the late 1970s the driving force of the Peninsular Malaysia economy was the production and export of primary products--first tin, than rubber and timber, and finally petroleum. In the 1980s export-oriented industrial production took over as the leading sector economy, enabling Malaysia to become a world-class economic performer. This volume shows how a small country wi…
Undang-Undang Nomor 8 Tahun 1999 tentang Perlindungan Konsumen (UUPK) baru saja diundangkan. Buku ini sebagai salah satu sarana sosialisasi undang-undang tersebut, tidaklah ditujukan untuk mengevaluasi undang-undang tersebut. Setidaknya ada dua tujuan penulisan buku ini. Pertama, mencoba mendeskripsikan perlindungan konsumen secara utuh (integral) dengan mengetengahkan instrumen-instrumen hukum…
Buku ini mengupas masalah sistem pengelolaan kepariwisataan sebagai suatu industri yang ditinjau dari sudut: ekonomi, sosial, budaya dan lingkungan hidup agar perkembangan industri pariwisata sesuai dengan kebijakan yang telah dirumuskan dan berhasil mencapai sasaran.
By using data of Nusantara's maritime glory history, marine potentials and conditions, and supported by available literature studies, the writer explains the foundation of his idea of making the sea as in important instrument to realize Indonesia's food sovereignty. The motto Jalesveva Jayamahe, which means "It is at Sea we are Glorious", resounds continuously to remind the people of how the se…