Diplomacy obviously means very different things to different people. In this entertaining and informative collection, distinguished diplomat Chas Freeman brings together keen observations, witty insights, shrewd advice, and classic words of wisdom on the art and practice of diplomacy. In so doing, this wide-ranging compendium draws on many cultures, ancient and modern. This revised edition adds…
Konflik Palestina telah menjadi simbol degradasi pada titik nadir perjalanan peradaban manusia dan seakan-akan selalu menghadirkan mimpi buruk tanpa berbatas. Persoalan di Palestina mengingatkan kita pada sikap keserakahan, kekejaman dan kebengisan dari anak manusia yang satu terhadap anak manusia lainnya, seolah-olah tidak menyisakan sedikit pun harapan untuk rekonsiliasi.
Indonesia sebagai negara yang sangat konsisten dan memiliki komitmen kuat terhadap perdamaian dunia, khususnya terhadap solusi yang adil bagi Palestina berkesempatan untuk menyuarakan asiprasi yang konstruktif dan suportif apabila mengacu pada pesan- pesan yang disampaikan oleh Presiden Obama. Meskipun secara politis, Indonesia berdiri mendukung Palestina dalam mencapai kemerdekaan dan memperol…
The most informative dictionary of economics available, the routledge dictionary of economics avoids the tendency to indulge in long-winded definitions of the major concepts and provides students with a lucid, comprehensive ad accurate guide to the discipline. Employing the key feature of further reading with many of the terms, the book uses the subject classification system defined by the Jour…
In the colonial period, the imposition of alien culture has produced a situation in which there developed a symbiosis in which aspects of the traditional culture and the imposed foreign culture through the medium of language, christianity and western education were merged to produce a new culture. But there are also cases in which the traditional culture displayed so much resilience that the at…
In this second edition of A Dictionary of Diplomacy we have added a considerable number of entries, excluded some which no longer seemed significant, reworked others in the light of further reflections, and corrected a few errors.
EU policy-makers have in the past decade endeavoured to formulate a substantial redefinition of the organisation's international ambitions. Attempting to carve out a new role as a key foreign and security policy actor in international politics, the EU has been involved in peace negotiations across the globe. Here, Taylan Ozgur Kaya looks at how this is enacted, with particular reference to the …
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait marked a major watershed in the modern history of the Middle East with consequences that are likely to affect the whole region for decades to come. But nowhere has the impact of the Gulf War been more immediately and profoundly felt than among the member states of the Gulf Co-operation Council - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. I…
This book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding conflict resolution in today's global world. In the first part, Peter Wallensteen introduces the fields of conflict resolution as they have developed since the end of the Cold War and demonstrates various approaches to conflict analysis and conflict resolution. The core of the book explores three major types of international conflict: in…
Britain has one of the oldest and most developed democracies on earth. It is admired and copied the world over. Yet at home British politics is frequently viewed with a mixture of derision and contempt. Why? Our democratic system may be mature but the politicians we elect and the media we rely on to tell us what they are up to often behave like difficult teenagers, calling each other names, arg…