Dr. Lai judiciously offers the following key points. First, Asia-Pacific, which covers China, Northeast Asia, and Southeast Asia, is a region with complex currents. On the one hand, there is an unabated region-wide drive for economic development that has been pushing Asia-Pacific forward for decades. On the other, this region is troubled with, aside from many other conflicts, unsettled maritime…
Papers read at a workshop on Internal and External Dynamics of South Asian Security held on December 8, 1996 in Karachi
This text seeks to provide an understanding of Southeast Asia as a region, the problems of statehood faced by the individual countries, and the search for regional order, peace and stability.
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.
Indonesia enters the new millennium at a time of transition. It has experienced several crises - in particular the economic crisis of 1997-98, a severe intensification of its environmental degradation, and more recently the East Timor crisis, the ongoing Aceh demand for independence, the change of government from the autocratic Soeharto regime to one democratically elected and under the leaders…
This book is a collection of my past speeches and writings. They are jointly selected by Asad Latif and Lee Huay Leng for the English and Chinese versions of the book in consultation with me. Dr Phua Kok Khoo, Founder and Chairman of World Scientific had repeatedly persuaded me to write a book about my views on politics and culture since my time in the Foreign Ministry
Counter This book examines the internal and external dynamics - Iranian polity, foreign policy and the capabilities of the Iranian military - which affect and often determine the policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It acknowledges the important role that Iran plays in Gulf affairs - particularly in the area of security - and looks at the evolution of Iranian foreign policy in recent years
in the 1990s, the United States faces a rapidly unfolding security environment in the Asia-Pacific area. Its principal features are familiar : the economic dynamism of market economies ; the normalization of relations between China and the Soviet Union , symbolized by Gorbachev's visit to japan.
September 11 provided a vision and a strategy to a US Presidency that until then had been groping for fresh ideas and a relevant foreign policy. The 'global war on terror' now became an article of faith for the United States. The US Government, media and think-tanks turned their attention to Islam, the Arab world and Saudi Arabia, and held them responsible for the catastrophe unleashed upon the…
The thread that binds the three speeches is the argument that the war against terrorism must be simultaneously fought on the ideological and geopolitical front. This war cannot be won by military might alone. Everyone in the civilised world Muslims and non-Muslims alike must unite and fight the common enemy the jihadist who have propagated violence and terror in the name of Islam. The United St…