In Southeast Asia, patterns of relationship between regional coun- tries and major powers have always been the main issue in discussions on security arrangement. In this book, Dewi Fortuna Anwar specifically discusses Indonesia's relations with major powers- China and Japan. She also examines Indonesia's role and position in several security issues in Southeast Asia during the 1980s. This prese…
Why and how was the International Monetary Fund created? How is it organized? What are its operating rules? Where does the IMF get its financial resources? Under what conditions does he grant his credits? What assessment can we make of its interventions in the Third World and in Eastern countries? Can the IMF prevent and cure financial crises? Is it responsible for a rise in inequalities and po…
The "commanding heights," according to Pulitzer Prize-winner Daniel Yergin and international business advisor Joseph Stanislaw, are those dominant enterprises and industries that form the high economic ground in nations around the globe. In their analysis of the new world economy, The Commanding The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World, they examine "t…
Fully revised to incorporate recent developments in world politics, the second edition of Understanding Global Security analyzes the variety of ways in which people's lives are threatened and/or secured in contemporary global politics. The traditional focus of Security Studies texts - war, deterrence and terrorism - are analyzed alongside non-military security issues such as famine, crime, dise…
This book comprises key essays on comparative regionalism and, more broadly, on regional conflict and cooperation by Professor Etel Solingen. The study of regionalism, a subject pioneered by Solingen in the 1990s, is now an established field of inquiry, with a large community of scholars and practitioners around the world. This book provides a window into an evolving conceptual framework for c…
Solutions for the World's Biggest Problems offers a rigorous overview of twenty-three of the world's biggest problems relating to the environment, governance, economics, and health and population. Leading economists provide a short survey of the state-of-the-art analysis and sketch out some promising policy solutions for which they provide cost-benefit ratios.
Globalization and its discontents adalah sebuah buku yang diterbitkan pada tahun 2002 oleh pemenang Nobel 2001 Joseph E. Stiglitz. Buku ini mengacu pada pengalaman pribadi Stiglitz sebagai ketua Dewan Penasihat Ekonomi di bawah Bill Clinton dari tahun 1993 dan kepala ekonom di Bank Dunia dari tahun 1997. Selama periode ini Stiglitz menjadi kecewa dengan IMF dan lembaga-lembaga internasional lai…
Globalization, like many great geopolitical ideologies before it, is now dead. Despite the almost-religious certainty with which it was originally conceived, a growing vagueness now surrounds the original promise of the global ideal that the fading power of nation states would be replaced by global markets that economics, not politics or arms, would determine the course of human events and that…
This book contains documents of agreements and official agreements between the Indonesian government and other countries and Indonesia's participation with other countries and Indonesia's participation as a party to various international conventions.
This volume contains papers compiled during an in-depth study on the region conducted by the Sejong Institute in the spring of 1991. The chapters in this volume offer a birds-eye view of on-going and potential developments in regional security, intra-regional trade and technology transfers, recent political developments and new pressures on alliance management requirements, the prospect for eco…