A related adjustment in American policy toward China has been the extent to which the United States has re-initiated a high-level dialogue with the PRC President Bush, perhaps because he did not want to be seen as being too soft on China in the wake of the Tiananmen incident, suspended a high-level dialogue with Beijing. Under President Clinton, to some extent perhaps because the Administration…
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait marked a major watershed in the modern history of the Middle East with consequences that are likely to affect the whole region for decades to come. But nowhere has the impact of the Gulf War been more immediately and profoundly felt than among the member states of the Gulf Co-operation Council - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. I…
By examining ethnic tensions in Southeast Asia the book provides an analysis of one of the security dilemma's most recent utilisations. In particular, the book adds to the growing literature on the security dilemma and ethnic conflict by locating the analysis of ethnic tensions in Burma and Malaysia, among others, within the security literature of the Third World. In intra-ASEAN relations the…
Perang proxy (Proxy War) merupakan kepanjangan tangan suatu negara berupaya mendapatkan kepentingan strategisnya di negara lain. Namun, mereka menghindari keterlibatan secara langsung dengan menggelar perang yang mahal dan berdarah. Di dunia, proxy war sudah berlangsung lama, terutama negara-negara di kawasan Timur Tengah. Wilayah Timur Tengah hingga sekarang merupakan kawasan yang tidak pernah…
This book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding conflict resolution in today's global world. In the first part, Peter Wallensteen introduces the fields of conflict resolution as they have developed since the end of the Cold War and demonstrates various approaches to conflict analysis and conflict resolution. The core of the book explores three major types of international conflict: in…
Buku ini secara khusus menyoroti berbagai dimensi dari konflik Laut Cina Selatan, termasuk arti strategis Laut Cina Selatan, upaya-upaya penyelesaian, peran ASEAN, dan berbagai kemungkinan yang muncul dari konflik tersebut.
For many, Israel has become the contemporary equivalent of apartheid South Africa - a system and a state with no legitimate place in the modern world. 'A State Beyond the Pale' looks at the roots of anti-Israeli sentiment in Europe and shows why there is now a risk that it may even spread to the United States
Buku ini merupakan upaya Pemerintah Belanda dalam merumuskan kembali bentuk kerja sama pembangunannya dengan negara berkembang ketika Perang Dingin telah kehilangan eranya Perubahan itu tampak dengan makin merebaknya multipolaritas kekuatan, yang diisi oleh berbagai macam pertikaian
Britain has one of the oldest and most developed democracies on earth. It is admired and copied the world over. Yet at home British politics is frequently viewed with a mixture of derision and contempt. Why? Our democratic system may be mature but the politicians we elect and the media we rely on to tell us what they are up to often behave like difficult teenagers, calling each other names, arg…
In revising classic works in political science, Longman celebrates the contributions its authors and their research have made to the discipline The Longman Classics in Political Science series honors these authors and their work Providing students with an updated context, each title in the series includes a foreword, written by one of today's top scholars, offering a fresh, in-depth analysis of…