Penyusunan buku ini bertolak dari ketidakpuasan saya terhadap kepustakaan ilmu perbandingan politik, sekaligus beranjak dari keinginan saya untuk menyajikan suatu tinjauan baru terhadap disiplin ilmu tersebut. Di masa lampau dan juga sekarang, sampai batas tertentu, buku-buku teks yang memperkenalkan perbandingan politik hanya terpaku pada pola-pola pemerintahan di empat negara saja, yakni Ingg…
This work focuses on the ideological intertwining between Czech, Magyar, Polish and Slovak, and the corresponding nationalisms steeped in these languages. The analysis is set against the earlier political and ideological history of these languages, and the panorama of the emergence and political uses of other languages of the region.
Like this book admits, and as the field of cultural studies, it’s a mish-mash of several different topics bonded together in an attempt to form a legitimate academic field which nobody’s sure what’s its properties.
Buku ini membahas tentang Asia Tenggara dari perspektif arkeologi. Pemahaman dan wawasan yang luas tentang akar peradaban Nusantara dan menghubungkannya dengan kebudayaan Austronesia serta konsep Devaraja di Asia Tenggara dalam masa Hindu-Buddha yang menjadi pemahaman awal tentang peradaban Asia Tenggara. Negara-negara di Asia Tenggara, seperti Thailand, Vietnam, Kamboja, Myanmar, Laos, Indones…
Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales's disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational corporations. His investigation of conditions in Mauritania, Brazil, Thailand, Pakistan, and India reveals…
So argues John McDermott in Corporate Society, an original and far-reaching analysis of the impact of the modern corporation on contemporary social structure. Combining business history with political insight, McDermott offers a systematic critique of the post-industrial order and the illusions it fosters. He warns against the development of a "post-society industry" in which the corporate orde…
Author Philip McMichael provides a narrative of how development came to be institutionalized as an international project, pursued by individual nation-states in the post-colonial era. This new edition has been updated and revised to incorporate the treatments of fundamentalism, terrorism, the AIDS crisis, and the commercialization of services via World Trade Organization.
Buku ini menantang ortodoksi kiri dan kanan. Penulis membahas serangkaian kebudayaan negara untuk mengungkap prinsip-prinsip yang melandasi kemakmuran sosial dan kemajuan ekonomi yang dicapai. Dalam sebuah era, ketika faktor modal sosial sudah sepenting modal fiskal maka hanya masyarakat yang memiliki tingkat kepercayaan sosial tinggi yang akan mampu menciptakan organisasi-organisasi bisnis fle…
Perubahan dalam organisasi militer (angkatan bersenjata) mencerminkan perubahan sosial skala besar di dalam masyarakat luas. Kini sedang bergerak dari apa yang dapat kita sebut ben tuk organisasi militer modern ke bentuk organisasi militer post modern. Militer modern yang terbentuk pada abad ke- 19 selalu dikaitkan dengan kemunculan negara-bangsa (nation-state). Adapun militer postmodern, sebal…
This book offers a comprehensive guide to identifying the means by which interrelationships of armed services and society can be explored and explained. It indicates the salient variables in these relationships, examines existing theories of civil-military relations, and sets out an overarching theory that seeks to provide both explanations for changes and a tool for prediction.