Buku ini merupakan kumpulan tulisan para diplomat muda Indonesia yang baru menyelesaikan pendidikan di Sekolah Dinas Luar Negeri (Sekdilu) Departemen Luar Negeri. Ia mempertemukan idealisme kaum muda dengan keterampilan diplomasi dalam menelaah isu-isu utama politik luar negeri Indonesia. Buku ini secara menyeluruh mencermati enam isu utama, yaitu strategi dan keamanan, ekonomi-politik, politik…
In this book of specially commissioned essays, twenty world leaders assess the possibilities and perils of the new strategic, political, and economic interrelationships that are emerging around the world. They tackle such fundamental questions as: What is the future of the international system as we approach the twenty-first century? What will be the fate of disintegrating nation-states, and ho…
The premise of this paper is that the international human rights movement is facing growing problems of irrelevance to people's daily concerns, marginalisation in local and global politics, and cooptation by ruling elites, privileged classes and global economic forces in local as well as global politics. In order to resolve these problems, the movement needs to critically re-examine some of its…
The essays collected here relate the writings of Antonio Gramsci and others to the contemporary reconstruction of historical materialist theories of international relations. The contributors analyse the contradiction between globalized and territorially based social and political forces in the context of past, present, and future world orders, and view the emerging world order as undergoing a s…
This book provides a fascinating set of insights into Singaporean diplomacy and demonstates how the excellence of Singapore's foreign service has enabled the country to punch far above its weight in international affairs. A must read for anyone interested in the exercise of foreign policy.
A collection of speeches and writings by Professor Tommy Koh, Singapore's long-time ambassador to the UN. He provides an insider's view of the workings and failings of the UN system, multilateral negotiations, bargaining, and Singapore's economic progress and foreign policy options. Accessible to general readers, policy makers, and academic specialists interested in international organizations …
In this book, completed after his 80th birthday, he covers his activities after Parliament. He reviews Governor-General Kerr's coup and robustly rebuts Chief Justice Barwick's doctrines. He examines the repercussions of the US withdrawal from Viet Nam and the Portuguese withdrawal from Timor in 1975 and the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. He discusses the decline of the Hawke Government, t…
The Singapore Lecture is designed to provide the opportunity for distinguished statesmen, scholars, and writers and other similarly highly qualified individuals specializing in banking, commerce, international economics and finance, and philosophical and world strategic affairs to visit Singapore. The presence of such eminent personalities will allow Singaporeans, especially the younger executi…
A great deal has happened in the USSR, much of it a direct result of Mikhail Gorbachev's selection as general secretary in March 1985. New political terms have been introduced, and Sovietologists have been hard at work trying to give meaning to what has been taking place within Soviet society.
Every nation, of course, has its own peculiarities and distinctive facets. Down the ages, however, Russia has suffered more than most from attempts simply to superimpose Western values and to transplant Western experience into a country that has followed its own route, on the fringes of Europe and Asia, Christendom and Islam, ever since Prince Vladimir of Kievan Rus chose the Orthodox Church of…