Reveals explosive changes currently taking place in Asia while considering how these changes will affect the rest of the world, predicting a major shift in international economic forces.
Sementara perhatian Barat telah difokuskan pada Uni Soviet dan Eropa Timur, revolusi yang lebih tenang dan kumulatif telah terjadi di Asia yang mungkin memiliki konsekuensi yang lebih besar bagi sejarah dunia. Saat kita bergerak menuju tahun 2000, Asia akan menjadi kawasan yang dominan di dunia: secara ekonomi, politik, dan budaya. Hingga tahun 1990-an, Barat menetapkan aturan. Sekarang, orang …
The contents of this book: 1. Why a National Goverment? 2. The Changing Political Systems 3. The Need for Economic Restructuring 4. Social Restructuring and Holistic Perspective
This book is not about suicide bombers. Tending one's fields, visiting a relative, going to the hospital: for ordinary Palestinians, such everyday activities require negotiating permits and passes, curfews and closures, "sterile roads" and "seam zones"―bureaucratic hurdles ultimately as deadly as outright military incursion. Not since the late Edward Said has there been such an articulate Ara…
An entertaining and thought-provoking portrait of Indonesia: a rich, dynamic, and often maddening nation awash with contradictions. Jakarta tweets more than any other city on earth, but 80 million Indonesians live without electricity and many of its communities still share in ritual sacrifices. Declaring independence in 1945, Indonesia said it would 'work out the details of the transfer of powe…
An entertaining and thought-provoking portrait of Indonesia: a rich, dynamic, and often maddening nation awash with contradictions. Jakarta tweets more than any other city on earth, but 80 million Indonesians live without electricity and many of its communities still share in ritual sacrifices. Declaring independence in 1945, Indonesia said it would 'work out the details of the transfer of powe…
Conflict and Reconciliation in the Contemporary World gives a concise, original and multi-faceted introduction to the study of modern conflict situations. Using eight case- studies, from four continents: Yugoslavia, Israel, Northern Ireland, South Africa, El Salvador, Cambodia, Cyprus and Afghanistan, it includes discussion on: - threatened regional peace and security - cycles of internal dis…
"One of the most remarkable phenomena of the past decade has been the renascence of Humanism in various ideological systems," observes Erich Fromm in his introduction to this volume, which gathers together for the first time the free-ranging thoughts of a new group of thinkers most of whom call themselves "socialist humanists," and who, despite their vastly divergent backgrounds and political c…
This important volume advocates a pro-poor growth strategy where the poor also participate directly as subjects in development. The contributors maintain that a critical element in this process is social mobilization where organizations of the poor work in partnership with a restructured state and a socially responsible private sector. They see a new political space for this in the current atte…
Contents: 1. Emancipating twenty-first century slaves 2. Prohibition and prostitution 3. Learning to speak up 4. Rule by rape 5. The shame of Honor 6. Maternal mortaly - one woman a minute 7. Why do women die in childbirth? 8. Family planning and the god gulf?, etc.