Neither India nor Indonesia may yet be categorized as a super- power, rather, they are both developing countries within the total spectrum of nations in this single world. This reality can not be denied. However, even though neither of us are superpowers, both In- dia and Indonesia have definite roles to play in international relations. There can be no doubt that the roles of India and Indonesi…
For more than forty years, the United States has played an indispensable role helping the Chinese government build a booming economy, develop its scientific and military capabilities, and take its place on the world stage, in the belief that China's rise will bring us cooperation, diplomacy, and free trade. Contents: 1. The China dream 2. Warring state 3. Only China could go to Nixon 4. M…
Joseph Nye coined the term "soft power" in the late 1980s. It is now used frequently - and often incorrectly - by political leaders, editorial writers, and academics around the world. So what is soft power? Soft power lies in the ability to attract and persuade. Whereas hard power - the ability to coerce - grows out of a country's military or economic might, soft power arises from the attractiv…
The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against "failed states" around the globe. Chomsky turns the tables, charging the United States with being a "failed state," and therefore a danger to its own people and the world. "Failed states," Chomsky writes, are those "that do not protect their citizens from violence and perhaps even destruction, that regard themse…
The present volume is a revised version of Dino Patti Dialal's thesis which was written in 1990. It undertakes to examine Indonesia's maritime territorial behaviour from a geopolitical perspective. More specifically, it aims to identify the geopolitical factors which have shaped the development of Indonesia's Archipelagic Doctrine. Promulgated in 1957, this doctrine revoked the colonial three-m…
This book contains about the preparation and implementation of the Asia-Africa conference in Bandung 25 years ago. Confidential minutes of closed sessions of the conference.
Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The End of History and th…
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.
Nama dan sosok Ali Moertopo memang misterius. Tak banyak sumber yang mengulas tentang dirinya. Padahal ia adalah tokoh utama di balik layar zaman Orde Baru. Perannya sungguh penting bagi Republik, khususnya bagi dunia intelijen Indonesia. Ia juga yang merancang agar Soeharto dan kendaraan politiknya, Golkar, dapat bertahan lama di pucuk pimpinan pemerintahan. Beberapa pengamat menjulukinya seba…
Longer pieces then started appearing, and more recently books. What almost all of this analysis and imagining revealed was a sense not only that one historical era had ended, but that some- thing of truly epic significance had occurred which would affect the human international political consciousness with the same impact as the dropping of the atomic bombs, the First World War or the Thirty Ye…