The essays and speeches in this book were written by a man who needs no passport to travel the world. He has roamed the globe with his mind and his pen, has experienced new cultures through a lifetime of reading. Senate President Blas F. Ople, apart from being proud to be a Filipino, also takes pride in being a citizen of the world.
This book is Mahathir Mohamad's recipe for revitalizing Asia after the financial crisis at the end of the 20th century. He called for a united front to challenge some of the fundamentals of globalization. A New Deal for Asia looks at whether Asia can reinvent itself for the new millennium after the chaos and chaos of the Asian crisis. According to Mahathir Mohamad, now is not the time to accuse…
The international community faces no more critical issue than how to protect people caught in new and large-scale humanitarian crises - humanitarian intervention has been controversial both when it has happened, as in Kosovo, and when it has failed to happen, as in Rwanda. While there is general agreement internationally that we should not stand by in the face of massive violations of human rig…
The Singapore Lecture is designed to provide the opportunity for distinguished statesmen, scholars, and writers and other similarly highly qualified individuals specializing in banking, commerce, international economics and finance, and philosophical and world strategic affairs to visit Singapore. The presence of such eminent personalities will allow Singaporeans, especially the younger executi…
George Soros applies his experience in the world of finance to explain what is happening in the collapsing global economy. The Russian economy has collapsed leading to inflation and economic hardship; scores of Japanese banks are in ruin; the once-booming economies of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia have imploded; and even in Europe and America, the markets lurch violently, wiping out gains ea…
A great deal has happened in the USSR, much of it a direct result of Mikhail Gorbachev's selection as general secretary in March 1985. New political terms have been introduced, and Sovietologists have been hard at work trying to give meaning to what has been taking place within Soviet society.
Every nation, of course, has its own peculiarities and distinctive facets. Down the ages, however, Russia has suffered more than most from attempts simply to superimpose Western values and to transplant Western experience into a country that has followed its own route, on the fringes of Europe and Asia, Christendom and Islam, ever since Prince Vladimir of Kievan Rus chose the Orthodox Church of…
We need to think harder about the norms and procedures for the governance of globalization. writes Joseph Nye in setting out the goals of this report. Focusing on the roles of the World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank, Professor Nye poses six questions to contributors Jessica Einhorn, Béla Kádár, Hisashi Owada, Luis Rubio, and Soogil Young. 1.Protesters assert…
This study is the result of a decision by Commonwealth Heads of Government at their 1983 Meeting in New Delhi. It was conceived in the framework of the Commonwealth's long-standing concern with the economic problems of its very many small member states. The 'vulnerability' of small states is the essential concept informing the enquiry and it is considered in Previous page.
For Fareed Zakaria, the great story of our times is ‘the rise of the rest’–the growth of countries like China, India, Brazil, Russia, South Africa and Kenya, which is generating a New global landscape. Global power is shifting, and wealth and innovation are bubbling up in unexpected places: the tallest buildings, biggest dams, top-selling movies and most advanced mobile phones are all bei…