The thoughts we express in this book are informed by our service in the pentagon during the first term of the Clinton administration and with the reflection of a year of distance from the fray.
Based on fieldwork in Colombia's regions, the study provides a history of the conflict, compares it to other case studies, examines the war from the perspectives of the government and the guerrillas, delves into the development of special Colombian capabilities (notably in intelligence and the use of air power and special forces), and explains the economic dimension in terms both of historical …
In this third happy alliance between author and publisher, I am again greatly indebted to the sympathetic and sustaining staff at Lexington books.
This book examines the nature of Australia's emerging militarism and its implications for the future of this country and our neighbours. It argues that Australia's forces should confine themselves to the defence of this continent and its maritime resource zone. It urges a cooperative approach to regional security which would use dialogue, negotiation and conflict resolution as tools for resolvi…
This book is Mahathir Mohamad's recipe for revitalizing Asia after the financial crisis at the end of the 20th century. He called for a united front to challenge some of the fundamentals of globalization. A New Deal for Asia looks at whether Asia can reinvent itself for the new millennium after the chaos and chaos of the Asian crisis. According to Mahathir Mohamad, now is not the time to accuse…
This book, starting with a forecast of China's population growth and an examination of the goal to achieve a dirty comfortable standard of living for the Chinese people by the year 2000, reviews comprehensively the country's economic, scisntific, technological, and social factors of development to paint a picture of what China might look like by the turn of this century. Meanwhile, It puts forw…
Drucker On Asia is the result of extensive dialogue between two of the world's leading business figures, Peter F Drucker and Isao Nakauchi. Their dialogue considers the changes occuring in the economic world today and identifies the challenges that free markets and free enterprises now face with specific reference to China and Japan. * What do these economic changes mean for an individual count…
The objective of the Australia-Indonesia Development Area (AIDA) concept is to develop closer economic relations within the AIDA region through improving the enabling environment for private sector trade and investment. A key strength of the AIDA concept lies in the essential complementarity of the Australian and AIDA region of Indonesia economies, for example between Australian technology and …
This book tells the history of America's experience in the Middle East over the past sixty years. This book contains the stories of ten presidents and their administrations and their ways of dealing with the region, their leaders, and their ideas for solving these problems.
Why has Switzerland - a tiny, land-locked country with few natural advantages - become so successful for so long at so many things? In banking, pharmaceuticals, machinery, even textiles, Swiss companies rank alongside the biggest and most powerful global competitors. How did they get there? How do they continue to refresh themselves? Does the Swiss 'Sonderfall' (special case) provide lessons ot…