This book marks a milestone in peace research. The insightful review of the early development of the field of conflict resolution brings a much-needed perspective on the challenges presented by late twentieth-century conflicts. The authors provide a complex and highly differentiated view of today's international collectivity, in which no one set of actors or perspectives predominates. The analy…
The 2012 Pla (People's Liberation Army) conference took place at a time when the Chinese Communist Party (Ccp) was making its leadership transition from Hu Jintao to Xi Jinping. The conference discussion focused on the developments in China's national security and the Pla during the Hu Jintao Administration from 2002 to 2012. Key observations are presented in this volume. The most significant o…
In World on Fire, Amy Chua shows that just the opposite has happened. As global markets open, ethnic conflict worsens and democracy in developing nations turns ugly and violent. Examining the actual impact of economic globalization across the world Chua shows how free markets have concentrated disproportionate, often spectacular wealth in the hands of resented ethnic minorities. These 'market- …
The reigning consensus holds that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated with underdevelopment. In this revelatory investigation of the true impact of globalization, Yale Law School professor Amy Chua explains why many developing countries are in fact consumed by ethnic violence after adopt…
this book is intended to demonstrate to readers how significant Ethnic and Religious conflict have been in Indonesia,and what their relations are toward the decline of Indonesian communal Cohesion. Comprises a collection of papers and discussion materials presented during the "International Workshop on Ethno-Religious Conflicts in Indonesia Today" conducted by Pusat Bahasa dan Budaya, Institut …
Konflik antar peradaban , khususnya antara Islam versus Barat , semakin banyak dibicarakan sejak tragedi 11 September 2001 , dan banyak orang yang mengasosiasikannya dengan perwujudan dari " benturan antar peradaban yang didengungkan oleh Samuel Huntington beberapa tahun yang lampau . Banyak yang cemas bahwa benturan ini akan meledak dan meluas serta membawa kehancuran dan menjatuhkan manusia k…
Berdasarkan data Sistem Nasional Pemantauan Kekerasan (SNPK) (2002-2012), di antara lima provinsi yang pernah mengalami konflik komunal (Kalimantan Barat, Kalimantan Tengah, Maluku, Maluku Utara, dan Sulawesi Tengah), Maluku cenderung memiliki intensitas konflik kekerasan yang cukup tinggi. Secara khusus, menurut data SNPK, Kota Ambon masih menjadi wilayah dengan akumulasi angka konflik kekeras…
The African Development Bank Group is a regional multilateral development finance institution the members of which are all of the 53 countries in Africa and 25 countries from Asia, Europe, North and South America. The purpose of the Bank is to further the economic development and social progress of African countries, individually and collectively. To this end, the Bank promotes the investment o…
Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four twenty-year eras—or “turnings”—that comprise history’s seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Illustrat…