This book analyses the important political issues that dominate the media and demand the attention of political leaders in the modern world. It provides a full and comprehensible account of the most salient political issues in the world today and explains their significance in a way that is accessible to students and non-specialists alike.
Here are the authorized major speeches and statements by President George W. Bush on the most important issue facing the United States and perhaps the world today: global terrorism. The book begins with the terrible events of September 11, 2001, and concludes on Memorial Day, May 31, 2003, following the end of the war in Iraq. We Will Prevail is a definitive and timely record of the new fore…
Politics is a 2003 novel by Adam Thirlwell about a father-daughter relationship and about a ménage à trois which includes said daughter and two of her friends. We are informed by the narrator that the novel is about "goodness".
Why has the Arab world failed to achieve the political freedom, social stability, and economic improvement experienced in much of the rest of the world since the end of the Cold War? In Brutal Truths, Fragile Myths, veteran journalist Mark Huband argues that few of the region's leaders are capable of initiating the deep political changes necessary to address the challenges confronting them, and…
The Future of Iraq provides a primer on the history and political dynamics of this pivotal state divided by ethnic, religious and political antagonisms, and provocatively argues that the least discussed future of Iraq might be the best: managed partition. that even a significant American presence will not stabilize Iraq because it is an artificial state and its people have never shared a common…
Keamanan siber merupakan tantangan bagi pembangunan di sektor ekonomi, sosial, dan politik dalam penyelenggaraan diplomasi kontemporer. Dalam konteks Indonesia, konflik siber yang berdasar pada ras, suku, dan agama semakin marak terjadi, yang berdampak pada keamanan nasional baik di ranah daring maupun luring.
Since its appearance in Zuccotti Park, New York, in September 2011, the Occupy movement has spread to hundreds of towns and cities across the world. No longer occupying small tent camps, the movement now occupies the global conscience as its messages spread from street protests to op-ed pages to the highest seats of power. From the movement's onset, Noam Chomsky has supported its critique of co…
The international community as a whole and ASEAN in particular have paid in diplomatic and political capital, in dollars and in blood to effect a solution to the Cambodia problem that works. Singapore led a successful diplomatic pressure campaign throughout the dec- ade after Vietnamese forces chased the Democratic Kampuchea regime from Phnom Penh.
This book reviews the long guerilla struggle of the 'Organisasi Papua Merdeka' (OPM) for a Free Papua, and traces the rise of a non-violent independence movement alongside it, the Papua Council, following the fall from power of Indonesia’s military dictator, General Suharto, in 1998.
This book brings together a vivid mosaic of views from a selection of countries, drawn from a variety of historical, cultural and linguistic families, all with a long tradition of strategic thinking. The views of policymakers from major global actors – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Egypt, the European Union, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spa…