Southeast Asian Affairs 2006 provides an informed and readable analysis of the events and developments in the region in 2005. The first four articles present the political and economic overview of the region, a nuanced analysis on terrorism, and the role of Japan in East Asian community-building efforts. Eleven country reviews as well as five special theme articles follow, delving into domestic…
The Singapore Lecture is designed to provide the opportunity for distinguished statesmen, scholars, and writers and other similarly highly qualified individuals specializing in banking, commerce, international economics and finance, and philosophical and world strategic affairs to visit Singapore. The presence of such eminent personalities will allow Singaporeans, especially the younger executi…
Jawaharlal Nehru adalah salah seorang tokoh besar dari generasi kami, seorang negarawan terkemuka yang jasanya terhadap masalah kebebasan manusia tidak dapat dilupakan. Sebagai seorang pejuang kemerdekaan ia amat dikenal, dan sebagai pencetus India moden. jasanya tak tertandingi. Hidup dan karyanya telah berpengaruh secara mendalam terhadap pembinaan mental, struktur sosial, serta perkem bangan…
Onder de titel het oude Nederlands-Indië" verscheen 13 september 1971 het eerste deel van mijn memoires. Dit behelsde herinneringen uit mijn Indische loopbaan als rechterlijk ambtenaar van 1919-1939, laatstelijk officier van justitie te Makassar en te Semarang, en als par lementariër van 1927-1931 lid van de Volksraad en van 1939-1942 zijn laatste voorzitter. Dat deel loopt tot de capitulatie…
Jankomit (janji dan komitmen) SBY-JK secara rinci tercatat dalam buku ini; dari masa persiapan kampanye hingga usai pelantikan, maupun jankomit yang tersirat dari visi dan misi saat mereka resmi menjadi Presiden dan Wakil Presiden Terpilih RI periode 2004-2009. Disertai dengan data dan angka keadaan Indonesia saat ini sebagai indikator janji, adakah perubahan signifikan yang kita nanti-nantikan…
Yugoslavia was well positioned at the end of the cold war to make a successful transition to a market economy and westernization. Yet two years later, the country had ceased to exist, and devastating local wars were being waged to create new states. Between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the start of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in March 1992, the country moved toward disinte…
This encyclopedia is an attempt to present for the readers various dimensions of the philosophy of the man regarded as the apostle of Satyagraha and Nonviolence. Encompassing a wide arena of Gandhian thought, the encyclopedia presents an incisive and insightful exploration of Gandhi's outlook on society religion, politics, economics, women and so on. In addition, a book has also been included …
Amazon Frontier covers the 150 years when the first European scientists expolred the natural riches of Amazonia and became fascinated by its tribal peoples. Exciting and murderous encounters with new tribes continued throughout the nineteenth century, particularly when the Amazon's rubber monopoly made Manaus a frontier boom town. However, the Indian population, once so feared by the Europeans,…
"Europe: A History of its Peoples is the most ambitious attempt yet to survey comprehensively and objectively the bold. complex pattern of Europe's development from al promontory of Asia to one of the world's most influential powers. Many histories of Europe are in effect histories of Europe's nations, placed side by side. This book treats Europe as a whole. While emphasizing how differently E…
It is so rare in a democratic country that a sequence of individuals, belonging to one family, generation after generation, who combine character and intellect far above those of the com- mon run of their contemporaries should be chosen leaders of their time to play greatest roles in the task of nation building. In modern India, there is one such family that generation after generation has cons…