Engagement is Paul Keating's account of his involvement in Australia's foreign affairs, and his reflections on Australia's place in the world. It is a detailed look at the development of APEC; Australia's relationship with its largest neighbour, Indonesia; the role of the United States in the Asia-Pacific; China's re-entry into the world community; and the particular problems of Australia's sma…
How does one predict the future course a country should take to achieve its "vision" in a globalizing world that is very dynamic? It is important to understand the nature of the global order in order to be able to craft a foreign policy that serves, Nigeria's national interest.
The sudden end of the Cold War took the Japanese foreign policy community by surprise. The Yoshida Doctrine which served Japanese foreign policy so well during the Cold War is no longer a viable foreign policy option. This dissertation examines the restructuring of Japanese foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. Through a series of 56 interviews with Japanese foreign policy elites, the c…
This book is an essential resource for students and practitioners interested in how to build relationships and transform them into more elaborate network structures through public communication.
The Study: Confronting Challenges, Maximising Opportunities. A New Diplomacy for Market Access, traces the region's responses to many of these challenges as they appeared to our respective countries in the years since becoming independent nations. Indeed, what the Study has done is not merely to acknowledge the existence of these challenges, but it addresses their changing faces as well. The es…
This book tracks the phases of Singapore's economic and political development, arguing that its success was always dependent upon the territories links with the surrounding region and the wider global system, and suggests that managing these links today will be the key to the country's future. Singapore has followed a distinctive historical development trajectory. It was one of a number of citi…
The Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (CIJL) was created by the International Commission of Jurists in 1978 and is co-located at the ICJ Secretariat în Geneva. Its mandate is to promote world-wide the UN Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary and the UN Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers.
British journalist Francis Wade spent considerable time in Myanmar trying to understand its distant and recent history. In early 2017 he published Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim “Other,” about changing attitudes over the centuries about how the majority Buddhist population viewed Muslims. In his historical investigations, he does not spare British col…
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.
Indonesia enters the new millennium at a time of transition. It has experienced several crises - in particular the economic crisis of 1997-98, a severe intensification of its environmental degradation, and more recently the East Timor crisis, the ongoing Aceh demand for independence, the change of government from the autocratic Soeharto regime to one democratically elected and under the leaders…