Willem Oltmans menulis bahwa CIA memerankan bagian yang dominan dalam tragedi Gestapu 1965, dengan menggunakan tangan (Angkatan Darat/Bersenjata) militer Indonesia sendiri. Untuk itu, kehadiran buku ini merupakan sumber informasi terbaru yang selama ini tidak pernah disebutkan dalam penulisan buku sejarah Indonesia, dan diharapkan dapat menguak tabir yang selama ini dibungkam atau sengaja dipen…
With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.
James Jesus Angleton's involvement with some of the most notorious counterespionage events
In 1945, as the horrors of the Second World War finally came to a close, few would have guessed that less than five years later the United States would be locked into something called a Cold War with its former ally, the Soviet Union. But by 1947, that's exactly what happened. Somehow the American viewpoint had changed: now Russia was the enemy.
At the midterm of his Adminis tration. President Ronald Reagan is con ducting a foreign policy that differs markedly In style and substance from what he espoused upon entering office. Ideology has retreated somewhat before pragmatism. Political pressures have dic tated a greater de gree of moderation. Through experience. some of it painful, the President who came in to office preoccupied with d…
Covers the period from 1950 to 1989. Focuses on the impact of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) on the volume of undocumented immigration into the USA. Includes a chapter on emigration pressure in Europe and Africa.
Immigration phobia is a paradoxical global phenomenon: neither theories that link conflict to symbolic and realistic threats, nor the 'contact hypothesis' can systematically explain intense anti-migrant alarmism and exclusionism toward marginally small migrant minorities. Through a careful comparative study of immigration attitudes in the Russian Far East, the EU, and the United States, this bo…
From the legendary New York City mayoral race of 1977 to his twenty-year efforts to modernize Israeli politics to Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign, Schoen takes you on a fascinating, eye-opening ride across the international political landscape of the past three decades. Demonstrating how politics has evolved and how he has utilized the latest technology to help candidates win the hearts…
Seven years ago, the Natural Law Party was founded to create a new mainstream political party that would offer voters forward-looking. prevention-oriented, commonsense solutions to America's problems. Here is the remarkable story of the party's founding and its successful efforts to enter the national political arena, as well as the party's point-by-point platform to lead the country into the n…
Argues that the post-Cold War world will see the United States and Japan emerge as opponents, traces Japan's increasing power, and contends the United States holds the trump cards in the economic contest.