This book contains the relationship between American diplomacy and military policy and global strategy. The book's five sections cover the broad lines of America's strategy and the relation between force and diplomacy; the home base for our foreign policy: our relations with the free world's more advanced nations and our efforts to build a global partner- ship which will supplant the postwar re…
This collection of essays and speeches by Professor Tommy Koh were delivered and written in his capacity as the Executive Director of ASEF. It contains his thoughts on the three pillars of Asia-Europe relations: politics, economics, and civil society. Readers will find in this book his assessment of some of the key trends shaping the emerging world order and some crucial events affecting the tr…
This book is an account of the foreign policy of the United States, led by Henry Kissinger, during Richard Nixon's first term in the White House. It is also a story of a collaborative relationship that appears to be a series of diplomatic victories that can be reshaped. These were the years when China was reclaimed by American diplomacy; when the much-touted agreement on Strategic Arms Limitati…
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 Arguing that outdated Cold War perspectives continue to influence the current policies of the United States and the international community toward self-determination movements, they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…