This book is an attempt to answer this question, one may find that ASEAN-not just the ASEAN members that have claims to little pieces of land and vast waters of the South China Sea, not just individual ASEAN members, but ASEAN as a whole - has an abiding interest in peace and stability in this region and in freedom of navigation in and overflight above the South China Sea. Much of ASEAN's comme…
After a bloody revolution of more than four years (1945- 1949), Indonesia won her freedom from Holland with the transfer of sovereignty to Indonesia in December 1949. Holland had colonized Indonesia for more than three hundred years. What is now called Indonesia was formerly "The Netherlands East Indies" and consisted, according to the Dutch Constitution, of the whole of the Netherlands East In…
More than two and one-half years after the signing of the Helsinki Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the government of Indonesia and the free Aceh movement, peace still holds in the Indonesian province of Aceh.
The present volume looks into the issue of conflict and conflict resolution from various perceptions of experts in the field of International Relations, Political Science and Strategic Studies. These perceptions examine the changing dynamics of conflict resolution and the need for an alternate approach. Our understanding of alternate approach includes the non-traditional understanding of peace …