This proceeding is a product of a two-day international conference on "Democratization and Conflict Management/Prevention in Southeast Asia in the Twenty- first Century" held in Bangkok in January 2001. The conference was organized by the Institute of Security and International Studies (ISIS), Thailand and sponsored by the United Nations Organization (Department of Political Affairs and the Uni…
To politicians he was an intellectual. To intellectuals he was a politician. To others he was a shining beacon of hope. Adlai Stevenson's combination of eloquence, vision, sophistication, and popular appeal has few equals in American national life and for many he has remained one of the last great political heroes of our time.
A behind-the-scenes account of the campaign that elected Joseph Ejercito "Erap" Estrada as the 13th President of the Philippines. It explains how and why he won the campaign, detailing the strategies, events and people responsible for his victory, as well as his own personality.
Walk through the 100 years of the Philippine presidency form Aguinaldo's four-phased administration to the economic turnaround of the Ramos tenure and the ascension by folk hero Estrada to the millennial presidency. A centennial book with a history flavor unlike before. Read, for the first time, the insights of authors into the lives of twelve men and a woman who defined the contours of the Phi…
Jakarta the booming capital of the world's fifth biggest country, one of Asia's fastest growing cities, fascinates all those who try to discover a bit of its colourful past, This age old meeting place of various peoples offers cultural values and interesting historical sites to those who take trouble to look for it. This book guides the reader into Jakarta's past, to Old Batavia, to ancient man…
This report, jointly sponsored by SIPRI and the Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA), draws together the work of eight experts on armaments and Asia-Pacific security affairs to present analysis and extensive data on arms and defence related tranparency mechanisms in South-East Asia. It also includes a de facto arms trade re gister for South-East Asia covering the period 1975-96. The book will …
Books and articles on the subject of the formation of Malaysia abound. Some dwell on the significance and interpretations of event which have taken place. In the memoir, Ghazali Shafie's decided to chronicle the way these matters should be narrated. He felt he owed future generatios an obligation to put national historical matters in the perspective.
Barbara Bush is certainly among the most pop- ular First Ladies ever to live in the White House. Politics aside, people worldwide have come to admire her wit, her candor and compas- sion, as well as her unswerving devotion to her husband and children.
This highly contoversial book reveals, for the first time, one of the greatest military, political and financial secrets of recent times. It is nothing less than the true, if fantastic, account of how Pakistan and the USA covertly controlled the largest guerrilla war of this century, dealing to the Soviet Russian presence in Afghanistan a military defeat that has come to be called 'Russia's Vie…
Did the Vietnam War have to happen? And why couldn't it have ended earlier? These are among the questions that Robert McNamara and his collaborators ask in Argument Without End, a book that will stand as a major contribution to what we know about the Vietnam War. Drawing on a series of meetings that brought together, for the first time ever, senior American and Vietnamese officials who had serv…