Ever since the ascendancy of critical theory and multicultural studies in the 1960s and 1970s, traditional humanistic education has been under assault. Often condemned as the intolerant voice of the masculine establishment and regularly associated with Eurocentrism and even imperialism, the once-sacred literary canon is now more likely to be ridiculed than revered. While this seismic shift--bro…
Drawing on groundbreaking brain and behavioral research, Goleman shows the factors at work when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ di surprisingly well. These factors, which inculde self-awareness, self-dicipline, and empathy, add up to a different way of being smart, and they aren't fixed at birth. Although shaped by childhood experience, emotional intelligence can be nurtured a…
For more than a decade as Indonesia's foremost diplomat, Ali Alatas in his speeches dissected and explore many issues: disarmament, reform of the United Nations, global and regional security, the imbalances in international economic relations, globalization, liberalization and a host of other. But always the theme was durable peace and the only way to reach it-by way of justice. As he propounds…
Joseph Nye coined the term "soft power" in the late 1980s. It is now used frequently - and often incorrectly - by political leaders, editorial writers, and academics around the world. So what is soft power? Soft power lies in the ability to attract and persuade. Whereas hard power - the ability to coerce - grows out of a country's military or economic might, soft power arises from the attractiv…
This book wrestles with fundamental questions of practical disarmament and peace building in Sierra Leone. Although they were written prior to the May-June 2000 upsurge of violence in Freetown that led to the arrest of Foday Sankoh, these incidents underline the relevance of the authors analyses. The various research papers published in this volume have been written by civic leaders from Sierra…
Chaos in Yemen challenges recent interpretations of Yemen's complex social, political and economic transformations since 1990. It offers a new perspective to the violence afflicting the region, and explains why the Ali Abdullah Salih regime has become the principal beneficiary of this violence.
The unbalanced developments of the global society are pinpointed in this book, which argues that without counter-balance, problems might result in further decline of human security and even into social and economic stagnation.
Ethnic Politics in Southeast Asia and Quest for Identity, is a case study of five important minority ethnic groups in the region, i.e. Timorese, Patani, Rohingyas, Moro and Hoas and it is an attempt towards objective understanding of ethnic disputes. Thus this study has analysed ethnic policies of Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam and the Philippines and their interaction with minority comm…
India Unbound is the riveting story of a nation’s rise from poverty to prosperity and the clash of ideas that occurred along the way. Gurcharan Das examines the highs and lows of independent India through the prism of history, his own experiences and those of numerous others he has met-from young people in sleepy UP villages to chiefs of software companies in Bangalore. Defining and exploring…
Indonesia Assessment 1995 contains two main sections: one overviewing current Indonesian economic and political conditions, and one examining economic and social developments in Eastern Indonesia. This is the vast region of 25 million people, lying between Java, Malaysia, the Philippines and Australia. The book provides not only an up-do-date overview of Indonesia in 1995, but also one of the f…