Contents: 1. The history and character of the speakership 2. Choosing the speaker 3. The speaker as party leader 4. The speaker: A republican perspective 5. The speaker and the budget etc.
This report summarizes the views of participants on these broad conceptual issues, as well as their animated debate on more immediate matters like the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC), and the East Asian Economic Caucus (EAEC).
This book is an edited volume about China-ASEAN relations with contributions from experts based in China and Singapore. The book includes a few excellent papers that were presented at a conference the editor organized in October 2009 and also two other research papers. They examine China-ASEAN relations from a sub-regional cooperation perspective. The book discusses and analyzes China-ASEAN coo…
In particular, we wish to express our sincere appreciation to ambassador Yushita and secretary siazon for gracing this occasion with their presence and for having graciously agreed to deliver keynote addresses.
This publication includes the edited transcripts of the panel discussions held in the United Nations by the NGO Committee on Disarmament in 1998 and early 1999 and the presentations made by NGOs on May 11, 1999 at the third Prep Com for the Non-Proliferation Treary Review Conference to be held in the year 2000. We are very much dependent upon your reactions and suggestions to help us plan what …
This book contains publications about the non-aligned movement in a changing world that show the political, economic and social emancipation of the third non-aligned movement. The sequence of events starting with the unique Bandung Conference, followed by the meetings in Brioni and Cairo, culminated at the 1961 Belgrade Summit which formally started the periodic gatherings of the Heads of State…
Papers read at a workshop on Internal and External Dynamics of South Asian Security held on December 8, 1996 in Karachi
outcome of the Fourth South Asia Dialogue that took place an November 1994 among the various scholars who gathered in Kathmandu, this book presents the papers and findings of the deliberations that took place then. The issues covered were confidence building, secu- larism, democratization, elec- toral reform, decentralization of power, human rights, and endogenization of the economic policymaki…
Selama dua dasawarsa terakhir ini, isu tentang kelas me- nengah semakin mendapat tempat dalam kajian-kajian politik di Indonesia. Meningkatnya perhatian terhadap masalah kelas menengah tampaknya sejalan dengan perkem- bangan kapitalisme sendiri yang semakin matang di Indone- sia. Setelah sebelumnya perhatian lebih banyak dicurahkan untuk mengamati terbentuknya kelas pemodal, maka kini banyak sa…
In 1975, International Women's Year, a world conference was held in Mexico City. This conference launched the UN Decade for Women, which was marked at its mid point and conclusion by world conferences in Copenhagen and Nairobi respectively. In September 1995, China will host a Fourth World Conference on Women. These UN world conferences have been important catalysts and rallying cries in the st…