Damned Nations is the brilliant distillation of Dr. Nutt's observations over the course of fifteen years providing hands-on care in some of the world's most violent flashpoints, all the while building the world class non-profit War Child North America. Combining original research with her personal story, it is a deeply thoughtful meditation on war as it is being waged around the world against m…
Exploring the challenge of rehabilitating countries after civil wars, this study finds that attempting to transform war-shattered states into liberal democracies with market economies can backfire badly. Roland Paris contends that the rapid introduction of democracy and capitalism in the absence of effective institutions can increase rather than decrease the danger of renewed fighting. A more e…
The book examines ASEAN's mechanisms in managing challenges and threats to regional security. Its extensive analyses of the ASEAN story of managing regional security cover the different phases of ASEAN's development as a regional organization and explore the perceptible changes that have occurred in regional mechanisms of conflict management. The book also examines the roles of relevant actors …
Whether you are managing a personal investment portfolio or a major mutual fund, this comprehensive revision of the well-respected reference to finance and investment, is a must for the home or office.
"19 Desember 1948. Agresi Militer II Belanda terhadap ibu kota Yogyakarta menyebabkan Presiden Sukarno tertangkap. Wakil Presiden Mohammad Hatta yang cemas dengan kondisi itu segera mengirimkan telegram kepada Menteri Kemakmuran Rl, Syafruddin Prawiranegara, yang sedang berada di Bukittinggi untuk membentuk Pemerintahan Darurat Republik Indonesia (PDRI). Ternyata benar, tak lama kemudian Suk…
Israel Weissbrem, whose complex themes were taken from the lives of educated and wealthy Jews of Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth century, and whose writings all but disappeared in the twentieth, wrote in a vein of melodrama and fantasy, with an ironic and frequently savage wit. His cast of characters is extraordinarily diverse and appears to reflect attitudes - toward the religious,…
Contents: 1. Introduction: New historiographical orientation in the research on the Palestine question - Part 1: The history of Palestine rediscovered 2. Rediscovering Ottoman Palestine: Writing Palestinians into history 3. The rise of the sanjak of Jerusalem in the late nineteenth century - Part 2: The origins of zionism in Palestine reconsidered 4. The colonization perspective in…
What Next? tackles the big questions about our global condition and our collective future with a verve and authority no other current commentator or political figure, on either side of the Atlantic or the Channel, could match. Energy, food, water, international crime, weapons proliferation, drug trafficking, climate change, epidemic disease, migration - the challenges facing our world are thems…
Reveals explosive changes currently taking place in Asia while considering how these changes will affect the rest of the world, predicting a major shift in international economic forces.
Sementara perhatian Barat telah difokuskan pada Uni Soviet dan Eropa Timur, revolusi yang lebih tenang dan kumulatif telah terjadi di Asia yang mungkin memiliki konsekuensi yang lebih besar bagi sejarah dunia. Saat kita bergerak menuju tahun 2000, Asia akan menjadi kawasan yang dominan di dunia: secara ekonomi, politik, dan budaya. Hingga tahun 1990-an, Barat menetapkan aturan. Sekarang, orang …