The Prize recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important resource: oil. Daniel Yergin’s timeless book chronicles the struggle for wealth and power that has surrounded oil for over a century and continues to fuel global rivalries, shake the world economy, and transform the destiny of men and nations. The Prize proves the unwavering significance of oil throughout the modern era …
This book contains: 1. The Iranian revolution and political change in the Arab World 2. The Iranian revolution model 3. Arab political protest 4. Tracking domestic instability 5. Ideology and discontent 6. The impact of political Islam 7. An assesment 8. The future
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of research including covert trips to Burma, meetings with Suu Kyi and her friends and family, and extracts from the unpublished diaries of her co-campaigner and former confidante Ma Thanegi into this vivid portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi, illuminating her public successes and private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…