Chaos in Yemen challenges recent interpretations of Yemen's complex social, political and economic transformations since 1990. It offers a new perspective to the violence afflicting the region, and explains why the Ali Abdullah Salih regime has become the principal beneficiary of this violence.
India Unbound is the riveting story of a nation’s rise from poverty to prosperity and the clash of ideas that occurred along the way. Gurcharan Das examines the highs and lows of independent India through the prism of history, his own experiences and those of numerous others he has met-from young people in sleepy UP villages to chiefs of software companies in Bangalore. Defining and exploring…
Indonesia Assessment 1995 contains two main sections: one overviewing current Indonesian economic and political conditions, and one examining economic and social developments in Eastern Indonesia. This is the vast region of 25 million people, lying between Java, Malaysia, the Philippines and Australia. The book provides not only an up-do-date overview of Indonesia in 1995, but also one of the f…
Engagement is Paul Keating's account of his involvement in Australia's foreign affairs, and his reflections on Australia's place in the world. It is a detailed look at the development of APEC; Australia's relationship with its largest neighbour, Indonesia; the role of the United States in the Asia-Pacific; China's re-entry into the world community; and the particular problems of Australia's sma…
The Study: Confronting Challenges, Maximising Opportunities. A New Diplomacy for Market Access, traces the region's responses to many of these challenges as they appeared to our respective countries in the years since becoming independent nations. Indeed, what the Study has done is not merely to acknowledge the existence of these challenges, but it addresses their changing faces as well. The es…
British journalist Francis Wade spent considerable time in Myanmar trying to understand its distant and recent history. In early 2017 he published Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim “Other,” about changing attitudes over the centuries about how the majority Buddhist population viewed Muslims. In his historical investigations, he does not spare British col…
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.
Indonesia enters the new millennium at a time of transition. It has experienced several crises - in particular the economic crisis of 1997-98, a severe intensification of its environmental degradation, and more recently the East Timor crisis, the ongoing Aceh demand for independence, the change of government from the autocratic Soeharto regime to one democratically elected and under the leaders…
William Gairdner's book will have a special impact on American readers who sometimes get the impression that political-economic treatises that blow down this way from up there are all written by godchildren of John Kenneth Galbraith. Gairdner sees bright and clear what Canada so greatly needs, and his mobilizing passion wonderfully animates an analytical precision that should be the reason for …
One in a series of short books devoted to different countries that offers much-needed cross-cultural and global material to instructors. Used alongside an introductory sociology text or as a supplement in courses on comparative societies, comparative politics, comparative economics, or social stratification, this book brings a rich global perspective into the undergraduate classroom. The openin…