Peter Popham distills five years of research including covert trips to Burma, meetings with Suu Kyi and her friends and family, and extracts from the unpublished diaries of her co-campaigner and former confidante Ma Thanegi into this vivid portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi, illuminating her public successes and private sorrows, her intellect and enduring sense of humor, her commitment to peaceful re…
Zhu Rongji, the Premier of China from 1998 to 2003, the unswerving economic reformer who helped to tame rampant inflation and put China firmly on the path to international economic integration, became a respected and popular figure among world business leaders, heads of state, diplomats, and particularly among progressive reformers within China. Zhu Rongji Meets the Press --a collection of the …
Tribute to Aung San (1945-47) in the form of documents selected and edited by Dr. Maung Maung from Aung San's own speechs and writings, together with the memories and appreciative essays by Burmese and Western cotemporaries of Aung San, with a who's who.
Keamanan siber merupakan tantangan bagi pembangunan di sektor ekonomi, sosial, dan politik dalam penyelenggaraan diplomasi kontemporer. Dalam konteks Indonesia, konflik siber yang berdasar pada ras, suku, dan agama semakin marak terjadi, yang berdampak pada keamanan nasional baik di ranah daring maupun luring.
Since its appearance in Zuccotti Park, New York, in September 2011, the Occupy movement has spread to hundreds of towns and cities across the world. No longer occupying small tent camps, the movement now occupies the global conscience as its messages spread from street protests to op-ed pages to the highest seats of power. From the movement's onset, Noam Chomsky has supported its critique of co…
This collection of essays traces the development of a range of social ideas, then addresses questions about society and the international order. With its balanced inclusion of historical and contemporary selections, Social Ideals and Policies is the most comprehensive anthology available in social and political philosophy
The genocide in Rwanda showed us how terrible the consequences of inaction can be in the face of mass murder. But the conflict in Kosovo raised equally important questions about the consequences of action without international consensus and clear legal authority. On the one hand, is it legitimate for a regional organization to use force without a UN mandate? On the other, is it permissible to l…
Political Ideologies provides an extensive collection of extracts from the texts of major intellectuals, politicians, and writers who represent some of the most important ideological traditions in modern politics. The first volume to provide such an extensive range of texts and to cover both established and newer political ideologies, it illustrates the complex evolution of ideological traditio…
Contents: 1. The founders 2. The global struggle 3. War and strategy 4. The hydrocarbon age 5. The battle for world mastery.
Corruption is a threat to democracy and economic development in many societies. It arises in the ways people pursue, use, and exchange wealth and power, and in the strength or weakness of the state, political, and social institutions that sustain and restrain those processes. Michael Johnston argues, give rise to four major syndromes of corruption: Influence markets, elite cartels, oligarchs an…