The Vietnam war ended exactly 20 years ago. The relations between Vietnam and the USA are in a process of normalization. However, politically and militarily, there remain many tasks for researchers, for the sake of truth and for better understanding between the two peoples.
In order to gain and hold onto power, the Clinton administration has acted recklessly, allowing the wrong people to gain access to our most important political and economic secrets. Any number of Chinese arms dealers, spies, narcotics traffickers, gangsters, pimps, accomplices to mass murder, communist agents, and other undesirables will appear in these pages, all associated in one way or anoth…
The book examines Malaysia's long-term social transformation, the global disruptions of July 1997 and 'September 11', key leaders' calculations of power, and the pitfalls of succession that intersected to produce the political dramas of Mahathir's final decade in power.
Seminar yang melahirkan buku ini, merupakan tahap pertama dalam membicarakan Pancasila sebagai Ideologi dalam berbagai bidang kehidupan bermasyarakat, berbangsa dan bernegara yang dipandang perlu didahulukan dalam rangka mencari titik temu yang dapat dipakai untuk mendukung penyamaan atau penyerasian orientasi, persepsi dan penghayatan terhadap Pancasila sebagai Ideologi dalam berbagai bidang k…
The Best and the Brightest answers these questions more directly and more completely than any other book written on America in the last decade. From the self-doubting of the post-McCarthy era to the phenomenal hubris of the mid-sixties, America is captured within these pages with a lucidity and intelligence that is fascinating. The Best and the Brightest is an enormously important book.
The development of NU that has almost reached its 80 year has opened the possibility of the birth of new generations that have new ideas that may be very far from the thoughts of the organisation's founding fathers. That is why good basic knowledge on sources that are reference for Nahdlatul Ulama as well as values and the history of Nahdlatul Ulama itself is needed, so the development of views…
Indonesian politics under Suharto is readable, well-informed, and judicious introduction to the 'New Order', and the figures who have shaped it. The author brings to his subject not only a command of available Western studies on the country, but a wealth of previously unpublished interviews with retired or deposed political and military personalities.
In this book of specially commissioned essays, twenty world leaders assess the possibilities and perils of the new strategic, political, and economic interrelationships that are emerging around the world. They tackle such fundamental questions as: What is the future of the international system as we approach the twenty-first century? What will be the fate of disintegrating nation-states, and ho…
Built on declared principles of partnership and respect for sovereignty, and successful in gaining legitimacy in the international community, the new model seems to offer a legitimate way to engage in state-building intervention. The book mounts a critique of these claims, showing how international legitimacy does not automatically translate into political legitimacy among those in the affected…
Buku ini merupakan kumpulan tulisan yang pernah dan belum pernah dimuat di media masa. Sebagian merupakan pengantar beberapa buku sejarah. Sedang sebagian lainnya terdiri dari tinjauan buku terutama yang terbit setelah era reformasi 1998. Substansi yang dibahas merefleksikan perkembangan sejarah Indonesia mutakhir, sebagian besar buku yang dibicarakan itu tergolong kategori terlarang pada masa …