Twenty-seventh ASEAN Ministerial Meeting, ASEAN Regional Forum, and Post-Ministerial Conferences with Dialogue Partners (Bangkok, Thailand, 22-28 July 1994)
The rise of China is one of the most critical developments in the world today. To provide a comprehensive understanding of China's rapid rise and explore the impact and implications for ASEAN, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) organized the first ASEAN-China Forum from 23 to 24 June 2004 in Singapore. The Forum brought together more than thirty reputable experts and scholars from…
Armed with a thorough knowledge of Asia, Jim Rohwer is a benevolent but sharp witness of the region's fortunes. He gathers hard facts and opinions from impeccable sources and builds around them a very compelling picture of Asia's need to feed on the best standards America can offer. Asia ought to be selective in the process, and Jim Rohwer offers penetrating views on how the countries of the re…
In Global Paradox, John Naisbitt explores the new global environment of the 1990s and the enormous opportunities and challenges that countries, businesses and individuals will face in this period of growth and transformation at the end of the millennium.
In Global Paradox, John Naisbitt explores the new global environment of the 1990s and the enormous opportunities and challenges that countries, businesses and individuals will face in this period of growth and transformation at the end of the millennium.
The global economy, on which the world now depends more than ever, is in crisis. The Russian economy has collapsed, leading to punishing inflation and economic hardship. Scores of Japanese banks are in ruin while the Japanese government muddles along, the nation falling deeper and deeper into recession. The once-booming economies of Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia have imploded. Brazil and th…
This book offers theories that are in line with the real development of today's increasingly interdependent and globalized world economy, and also discusses concrete cases in a popular manner to make it easier for readers to understand relatively abstract theoretical explanations. This book contains: 1. Labor productivity and comparative advantage: The Ricardian model 2. Spesific factors a…
For more than half a century, Papua's place in Indonesia has caused serious strains and the occasional crisis in Australia-Indonesia relations. This Lowy Institute Paper provides an in-depth history of Papua's troubled integration into the Indonesian state and Australia's Papua policies. The Paper looks at what the Australian government can best do to assist Papuan development, support good rel…
The authoritative New Zealand in World Affairs Volume I, covering the period from the Second World War until 1957, was first published in 1977. Still in demand, it has been reprinted in conjunction with the publication of New Zealand in World Affairs Volume II 1957-1972.
New Zealand in World Affairs Volume II covers the period from 1957 to 1972, when New Zealand diplomacy moved irrevocably away from the Commonwealth and British framework of the past, and when foreign relations first became the object of sustained debate within the country. The volume is introduced by Malcolm Templeton and essays are contributed by Roderic Alley, Roberto Rabel, Rita Ricketts and…