This book tells the history of America's experience in the Middle East over the past sixty years. This book contains the stories of ten presidents and their administrations and their ways of dealing with the region, their leaders, and their ideas for solving these problems.
President Kennedy's former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and co-author Blight offer suggestions as to how the United States could and should change its foreign policy and defense policy to incorporate the core objectives of post-WWI Wilsonian ideals. They suggest that the United States make the end of war a major goal of foreign policy and argue that while the U.S. will have to provide l…
Indonesia and the United States, Shared Interests in Maritime Security by Bronson Percival analyzes the threats posed by terrorists to the strategic waterways that pass near and through the Indonesian archipelago. This trenchant review focuses on Indonesian organization and capabilities in the maritime sector.
This sharp and authoritative account of American foreign relations analyzes the last 15 years of foreign policy, since the end of the Cold War, in relation to the last 40 years. In 1989, the US emerged as victor from the Cold War struggle. But what did victory mean? In the US, commentators were divided in their views: some feared their nation's eclipse by more successful trading powers or blo…
This book is comprehensive account of the close relations and cooperation between two Asian countries and the vicissitudes as well as the triumphs of that relationship. The friendship between the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Republic of Indonesia are founded on cultural, social and political ties that have deep historical roots.
Ten Episodes in China diplomacy by Qian Qichen, in which he describes his experiences as a diplomat, is the most detailed, informative, insightful account of recent Chinese foreign policy by any Chinese official or scholar. Full content: Normalization of Sino-Soviet relations The Paris Conference on Cambodia Flying to Baghdad "Funeral diplomacy" in Tokyo The road to Seoul Withstanding …
As a career diplomat and trusted confidant of prime ministers and foreign ministers from both sides of the Labor-Liberal divide, Woolcort nor only witnessed first hand some of the pivotal moments of the twentieth century but actively played a crucial part in them; events such as the creation of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC), the decolonisation process in South East Asia, an…
This careful and well-informed study by a leading sociologist explores key questions about Morocco and its relations with the Western Sahara. The strategies of the main actors are discussed, and the underlying game theories that explain their actions are analysed in regional and international contexts. The geopolitical dimension of the present situation is explored, in terms of the ever-present…
This careful and well-informed study by a leading sociologist explores key questions about Morocco and its relations with the Western Sahara. The strategies of the main actors are discussed, and the underlying game theories that explain their actions are analysed in regional and international contexts. The geopolitical dimension of the present situation is explored, in terms of the ever-present…
This book, is an extraordinary accomplishment . It contains first-hand recollections by people at No.1, Wisma Putra - the present-day address of the new Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the new administrative capital, Putrajaya