Dalam buku ini dibicarakan kesenjangan kaya-miskin di antara negara-negara Barat dan Timur. Bab-bab yang langsung menangani masalah kecenderungan populasi dan episode kolonial memberikan konteks historis bagi analisis kesenjangan yang ada saat ini, serta persoalan mengenai batas daya dukung lingkungan terhadap pembangunan ekonomi.
George Soros applies his experience in the world of finance to explain what is happening in the collapsing global economy. The Russian economy has collapsed leading to inflation and economic hardship; scores of Japanese banks are in ruin; the once-booming economies of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia have imploded; and even in Europe and America, the markets lurch violently, wiping out gains ea…
In this book, Clarke and Clad challenge the established foreign policy elite to rethink old ways of approaching policy making. Believing that America should remain a strong world leader, Clarke and Clad convincingly argue for restraint in foreign policy decisions. Ever since George Bush proclaimed his vision of a "new world order," most foreign policy thinking has worked on the premise that we …
This book containing selected of collection speeches and artwork of former President of Philippine Corazon C. Aquino.
Lords of the Pacific Rim adalah kisah yang kaya, mengasyikkan, diteliti dengan luar biasa, dan diceritakan secara spektakuler tentang siapa orang Cina Rantau dan bagaimana mereka menjadi sangat kuat. Lords of the Rim menyediakan portal yang menarik ke masa lalu dan masa depan ekonomi Pasifik dunia.
Drucker On Asia is the result of extensive dialogue between two of the world's leading business figures, Peter F Drucker and Isao Nakauchi. Their dialogue considers the changes occuring in the economic world today and identifies the challenges that free markets and free enterprises now face with specific reference to China and Japan. * What do these economic changes mean for an individual count…
I was twenty. A wintry dawn filled the sky above the low buildings of Shino-In, a small Buddhist temple forming part of the main monastery complex of the Shingon sect situated at the top of Mount Koya in Japan. In the silent room of tatami mats, plastered walls and paper windows, beside my futon, my tea, left in a cup from the night before, had frozen solid. I had not slept much; it had been to…
This study of People's Action Party rule in Singapore was first published in 1984. The 1980s represented one of the most significant land marks in the modern history of Singapore. At the beginning of the decade, the founding fathers of Singapore, led by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, began the process of entrusting in creasing responsibility for governing Singapore to the second generation leader…
In this collection of statements, interviews and personal profiles of Dr. Chien, much of it translated from the original Chinese, the reader will have a comprehensive view of the R.O.C.'s latest diplomatic moves and a portent of its future international role. So, too, this work presents authentic insights into the character and persona of Fredrick Chien, the person as well as the statesman of v…
An overview of the nuclear era examines the confrontations, key decisions, and personalities involved with nuclear policy from the Roosevelt administration to Reagan's presidential terms.