This stimulating book calls attention to the growth of an inefficient superlayer in the economies of South-East Asia and invites the reader to think about the problems this poses to economic development in the future. The author argues that technological backwardness, the low quality of government intervention, and discrimination against those pf Chinese descent have prevented capitalism from s…
This book discusses the pattern of change and conditions in Russia after Stalin. Then it also explains Russia during the Gorbachev era. The evolution of US policy goals and western influence on the Soviet Union.
Waltzing with a Dictator is the startling story of America's twenty-year partnership with the conjugal dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda. Based on 12,000 pages of previously classified U.S. documents, Raymond Bonner's account contains never-before-told details of the incredible lifestyle of Imelda Marcos; of the imprisonment and assassination of Genigno S. Aquino; of the Mar…
This text provides an examination of one of the most controversial issues in Asia today - how the region reconciles its homegrown values with the conflicting and often Western values of modernization, globalization and economic development. In a series of chapters, each devoted to a country, the book explores just what "Asian values" - a highly charged term in modern Asia - means to the individ…
Buku ini mengupas tentang peran media dalam integrasi sosial yang masih tergolong langka. Isi dalam buku ini merupakan hasil penelitian dan pengamatan terkait peran media dalam mewujudkan kohesi sosial di tengah meningkatnya ketegangan antar umat beragama. Buku ini diterbitkan untuk menerima dan menghormati eksistensi kelompok lain yang berbeda dan bekerjasama dengan mereka dalam semangat persa…
This study is the result of a decision by Commonwealth Heads of Government at their 1983 Meeting in New Delhi. It was conceived in the framework of the Commonwealth's long-standing concern with the economic problems of its very many small member states. The 'vulnerability' of small states is the essential concept informing the enquiry and it is considered in Previous page.
Since 1983, the mission of the U.S. Army Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis (OEMA) has been to provide a sound basis for policy and planning for the Army of the future. Founded by General Maxwell Thurman, this Headquarters Department of the Army (HQDA) asset is nested within the U.S. Military Academy's Department of Social Sciences. The intellectual freedom and community-of-practice provi…
This report was prepared for UNCTAD by William Kovacic, Commissioner, United States Federal Trade Commission, and David Lewis, Gordon Institute of Business Science, former Chairman of the South African Competition Tribunal. The substantive backstopping and review of the report was the responsibility of Ulla Schwager. Carl Buik provided valuable feedback. UNCTAD would like to acknowledge the val…
A counterterrorism spy describes his leadership of the campaign that routed al Qaeda and the Taliban in the weeks after the September 11 attacks, offering insight into the ways in which the Afghanistan campaign changed American warfare.
The book brings together essays by Thai specialists as well as Western scholars on pivotal topics connected to Thailand's current legitimacy crisis. It begins with a lively narrative of major events and in subsequent chapters covers the politicization of the Khao Phra Wihan (Preah Vihear) temple issue. The People's Alliance for Democracy and its "New Politics". The politicization of the Thai me…