ASEAN economic cooperation and integration have come a long way since the organisation's early days, when cooperation was more political and diplomatic than economic in nature. ASEAN now constitutes the most ambitious organization of regional cooperation in the developing world. This book investigates the economics of various ASEAN and ASEAN-centric economic integration initiatives, focusing in…
International institutions vary widely in terms of key institutional features such as membership, scope, and flexibility. Barbara Koremenos, Charles Lipson, and Duncan Snidal argue that this is so because international actors are goal-seeking agents who make specific institutional design choices to solve the particular cooperation problems they face in different issue-areas. Using a Rational De…
This conference indicates none other than the emerging structure of inter dependency in our world. There are schools of thought which believe that it is exactly this structure that could condition peace. But we should not ignore the fact that together with the rapid flow and transfer of ideas.
Explores the motivations behind the French government's efforts to undermine American policy toward Iraq, discussing France's support for Saddam Hussein and their secret oil contracts with Iraq worth billions of dollars
Italian journalist and Vatican insider Massimo Franco draws on unique access to the archives of the Holy See and a range of sources both in Washington, D.C. and Rome to chart the path of U.S.-Vatican relations, revealing the religious and political tensions that have shaped their dealings and our world. Starting with the Holy See's initial diplomatic overtures to the United States in the 1780's…
This volume unpicks common assumptions about the global influence of China and India to examine their future impact on international society. China and India have huge potential to exert global influence due to their geography, population size and material resources. Now their spectacular economic growth has led many commentators to predict a shift in power from West to East and the dawn of an …
This book will help understand the dosmetic politics and foreign politics of the two Korean and serve as a reference for scholars concerned
In addition to tracing the development of Japan's southward-advance policies from the early 1930s to the outbreak of the "Greater East Asia War" in both government and private sectors, an outstanding feature of this book is that the author has looked into the trends within the na tionalist movement in Indonesia connected to the Japanese moves. Especially noteworthy is the analysis of the differ…
The foreign policy expert offers an assessment of recent American foreign policy, arguing for a more sophisticated posture in the world that positions America as a supporter of reform and justice in the world.
Statecraft is as old as politics: Plato wrote about it, Machiavelli practiced it. After the demise of Communism, some predicted that statecraft would wither away. But Ross explains that in the globalized world--with its fluid borders, terrorist networks, and violent unrest--statecraft is necessary simply to keep the peace. He outlines how statecraft helped shape a new world order after 1989. He…