This book comes out of papers and comments presented during the international conference on The Future of the Non-Aligned Movement held by CSIS 16-17 June 1992, and it reflects the interests and aspirations of the participants. The conference was attended by participants from Non-Aligned countries - India, Indonesia, Yugoslavia, Pakistan, Ghana, Cyprus, Malaysia, Vietnam and Egypt.
This research was co-authored by the Research Institute on International Change at Columbia University, and the East Asian Research Center at Harvard University. This book contains state issues that occurred in South Korea and North Korea, both in the field of politics and military power.
In this age of Democracy Victorious, why have the most successful governments disdained the ideals of America's founding fathers in favor of the sometimes cruel efficiency of authoritarianism? Why have thinly disguised dictatorships like Taiwan and Singapore achieved enormous successes, while the West is continually mired in gridlock? Because, Kennon asserts, the world has become so complicated…
Contents: 1. Historical legacies 2. The international economic system 3. Politics and political change 4. Beyond the nation-state 5. Conclusions.
This newly updated fourth edition re-examines the plight of Third World countries in light of the recent events and trends of the post-cold war world. As market forces become increasingly more influential, allowing for unprecedented growth and the accumulation of great wealth, many of the promises of the twentieth century continue to be transformed and abandoned. The vulnerability of developing…
The Twelfth Ministerial Conference of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries held at New Delhi, India from April 7-8, 1997 was historic in a sense that it took place on the occasion of the fiftieth year of India's independence which is one of the founder member of the Non-Aligned Movement and 35th anniversary of NAM
Providing an original perspective on world cities and the impact of globalization upon them, leading authorities contribute to this dedicated study of major cities in countries outside the industrialized West: Bangkok, Mumbai, Cairo, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai and Singapore. All play important global and regional roles, and the contributors…
Today the language of Human Rights occupies a pre-eminent position in the various discourses of political philosophy. Having grown out of the liberal traditions of the 18th century, it has evolved into a complex stratagem to explicate the demands of various groups and is now widely recognised. The rights are intimately connected to theories of human nature and theories of social and political o…
This book explains the global economy and uncovers the facts behind the hype. Globalization is not a vehicle without a driver, or an irresistible and inevitable force of nature, as political leaders and pundits would have us believe. Juggernaut Politics identifies the actual institutions and people controlling the system and explains how the globalization machine really works. It exposes the hi…
The report shows how world arrangements-for trade, finance, technology-harmstring development efforts, how they should be changed to give developing countries a fairer chance to lift themselves out of poverty.