There is at last a lucid, penetrating and comprehensive guidebook for U.S. policy in the Third World. And Richard Feinberg has written it. The Intemperate Zone displays encyclopedic knowledge at the command of a mind equally at home with strategic and moral issues. A gracefully written book for experts and amateurs alike
In this book, the authors review U.S. and international responses to self-determination claims during and after the Cold War. Arguing that outdated Cold War perspectives continue to influence the current policies of the United States and the international community toward self-determination movements, they provide a framework for evaluating the nature and legitimacy of self-determination moveme…
For the purpose of this inquiry the 'Third World' is taken to consist of all the countries of South and South East Asia; the countries of Africa which are not under white rule; all the countries of the Middle East and West Asia, except Turkey; all the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean; the new states of the Pacific and the Koreas. These countries, which number 119, are listed in Appe…
For the national interest, Australia issues a foreign and trade policy which contains national interests which include security, economy and values. In addition, there are policies to face the new century and shape the future of Australia.
Singapore became a base for Indonesian special operations during the years 1945-1950, both as source of material needed by the newly independent Republic of Indonesia in the face of probable designs on the part of the Netherlands East Indies government to force a military solution to the conflict, and as a transit port in neighboring countries. This book, based on the author's personal involvem…
This survey began some years ago and two reports set out the views of earlier Committees: Australia's relations with the South Pacific, tabled on 13 April 1989, and Australia's relations with Papua New Guinea, tabled on 19 December 1991.This inquiry had its origins in concerns about illegal fishing off the north and north west coast of Australia, but the terms of reference actually adopted were…
Living with Dragons is a dispatch from the front-line of Australia's engagement with Asia. It reveals for the first time just what a transforming and pervasive development the 'Asianisation' of Australian life is. Living with Dragons tackles all the hard questions. Australian identity, human rights, economic policy, the environment, defence and security, culture, the business challenge, languag…
Hubungan Australia dengan Indonesia: Faktor Geografi, Politik dan Strategi Keamanan yang diangkat dari disertasinya untuk memperoleh gelar Doktor itu meneliti secara historis dan ilmiah hubungan kedua negara tetangga, sejak awal kemerdekaan Indonesia, timbulnya masalah Iran Barat, dan faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi hubungan tersebut: Buku ini penting bagi politisi, pengamat politik luar neger…
In this book, Clarke and Clad challenge the established foreign policy elite to rethink old ways of approaching policy making. Believing that America should remain a strong world leader, Clarke and Clad convincingly argue for restraint in foreign policy decisions. Ever since George Bush proclaimed his vision of a "new world order," most foreign policy thinking has worked on the premise that we …
Assassinations, abductions, racketeering, black markets, corruption, religious persecution, mass executions, and war have been the daily lot of the Iranian people since they overthrew the Shah. But according to this former Iranian leader - forced to flee because he opposed the despotism of the mullahs the revolution's original goal really was a democratic system in which "Islam would only play …