This reader of nearly sixty articles covers major events in the Caribbean struggle for freedom from emancipation to the present-from Toussaint's Haiti to the more recent revolutions in Cuba, Grenada and the Dominican Republic.
This book describes the greater gift of competition that is not everything and changes us for the better. Through this book, it is hoped that readers can learn lessons that can change us for the better.
The overseas Chinese and the Chinese of Taiwan and Hong Kong are among the most dynamic business people in Asia. Making up around six per cent of the population of South-East Asia, ethnic Chinese business people control more than 70 per cent of the region's corporate wealth.
A sixth collection of speeches by the President of the Republic of the Philippines." Includes bibliographical references and index. ASEAN Recourses Centre copy signed by author."
As part of its trade policy, Singapore has recently embarked on what can broadly be termed "new regionalism". This is characterized by its new-found desire to enter free trade agreements (FTAs) with the economic powerhouses (Japan and the United States in particular) as well as with a number of other countries beyond the Southeast Asian region.
Here Mike Moore examines the implications of the post industrial economy, the emerging information age, and how New Zealand can best prosper within the global economy. He warns of the serious economic consequences of ignoring our social, intellectual and infrastructural deficits and makes a case for New Zealand's endangered middle class, advancing the significant proposition that New Zealand mo…
Once described by menzies as 'the boy delinquent from Queensland', Bill Hayden is widely considered today to be the best man never to have become prime minister of Australia. This is the insightful and revealing chronicle of Bill Hayden's life and career: from Queensland copper to labor politician, from leader of the opposotion to governor-general of Australia.
The papers in this book focus on women in Southeast Asia, and demonstrate that Boserup's formulation is equally applicable in this region. The important feature of capitalism in developing countries seems to be its ability to undermine women's traditional spheres of power and influence while simultaneously creating new conditions for further dependence on men. Thus, as a result of inappropriate…
This volume is the product of research undertaken by a multinational team of emerging intellectual leaders in Asia Pacific under the directorship of Han Sung-Joo, president of the Ilmin International Relations Institute at Korea University and former foreign minister of Korea. This research project on the theme of "Values, Governance, and International Relations" was launched in April 1997, jus…
We as a nation, have often tended to see problems as opportunities. In the face of conflicting demands, proliferating information, and rapid technological change, many of us would agree that imagination and integrity in the use of knowledge are essential if we are to make hard choices and move ahead.