This book is not a prediction but an urgent warning. It is about the state of global politics today, about what may happen by the onset of the twenty-first century, and also about what must not be allowed to happen. My concern that global change is out of control involves a necessarily subjective interpretation of the political meaning and message of our time.
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This book contains: 1. General introduction 2. Introduction to Book 1 3. The basic rule 4. State 5. The exceptions to the basic rule 6. The statutory exceptions 7. Shipping 8. Submissions to the jurisdiction 9. Procedural privileges 10. Exclusions and inclusions 11. Retrospective 12. Acta Imperii, Acta Gestionis 13. Introduction to book 2 14. The diplomatic privileges act 1964 1…
Contents: 1. Opening remarks at 2008 Seminar on International Situation. 2. International recognition of the Chinese rejuvenation: Retrospect on China's Diplomacy over thirty years of reform and opening-up. 3. Development and strategic significance of China's Multilateral Diplomacy since reform and opening-up. 4. Thirty years of dynamic growth of China-Arab relations. 5. On Sino-Japanese r…
In light of the spectacular performance of American high-technology weapons in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, as well as the phenomenal pace of innovation in the modern computer industry, many defense analysts have posited that we are on the threshold of a revolution in military affairs (RMA). The issue has more than semantic importance. Many RMA proponents have begun to argue for major changes in …
The Roaring Nineties offers not only an insider's illuminating view of policymaking but also a compelling case that even the Clinton administration was too closely tied to the financial community—that along with enormous economic success in the nineties came the seeds of the destruction visited on the economy at the end of the decade. This groundbreaking work by the Nobel Prize-winning eco…
Internationally admired for her fearless reporting, especially on the Chechen wars, award-winning journalist Anna Politkovskaya has turned her steely gaze on the man who, until very recently, was a darling of the Western media. A former KGB spy, Vladimir Putin was named President of Russia in 2000. From the moment he entered the public arena, he marketed himself as an open, enlightened leader e…
The contents of this book: 1. The Foreign Policy Presidency: Power and Problems 2. The Development of the National Security Council System 3. The National Security Council System at the End of the Cold War 4. Congress and Foreign Policy, etc.
The Arab world is not one shaped by Islam, nor one simply explained by reference to the sectarian conflicts of a "mosaic" society. Instead, Barakat reveals a society that is highly complex, with many and various contending polarities. It is a society in a state of becoming and change, one whose social contradictions are at the root of the struggle to transcend dehumanizing conditions. Arguing f…
This book is based on a decade of personal experiences, hundreds of interviews and several encounters with President Fujimori. It is a first and timely attempt to order and analyse the hugely varied and complex events of the Fujimori decade.