It is a rare portrait of a nation-and a leader-in peril, in flux and in the raw.
Issues & Studies published quarterly by the Institute of International Relations, is an internationally peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing quality social science research on issues-mainly of a political nature-related to the domestic and international affairs of contemporary China, Taiwan, and East Asia, as well as other closely related topics. The editors particularly welcome manusc…
The aim of this book is to provide the knowledge and skills necessary to read and evaluate research reports, journal articles and conference papers which include some aspect of measurement.
Teori memungkinkan dan membantu kita untuk memahami dengan lebih baik terhadap segala hal yang telah diketahui pada tahap pertama secara intuitif. Namun teori senantiasa bersifat majemuk dan multisentral sehingga kita harus berpaling pada teoritis khusus, untuk mengetahui tentang kapitalisme, misalnya, kita harus menoleh kepada Marx; mengenai modernitas kepada Heller; mengenai gerakan sosial ke…
The debate over European integration is a central issue in the study of contemporary Europe. This book seeks to guide the student through the most important of the integration theories and academic literature on this vital topic. The reader starts with an expansive and wide ranging introductory essay which offers a clear overview and analysis of the shifting terms of the debate on European inte…
Buku ini menjelaskan kekerasan yang dilakukan di lingkungan IPDN oleh senior praja pada tahun 2007 silam.
This book begins by identifying a global problematique, a coin- cidence of four sustained factors: war, insecurity and militarisation; the persistence of poverty; the denial of human rights; environmental destruction. The conventional policy approaches to these problems are analysed through a rigorous critique of the three main United Nations reports of the 1980s, those of the Brandt, Palme and…
In 1975, International Women's Year, a world conference was held in Mexico City. This conference launched the UN Decade for Women, which was marked at its mid point and conclusion by world conferences in Copenhagen and Nairobi respectively. In September 1995, China will host a Fourth World Conference on Women. These UN world conferences have been important catalysts and rallying cries in the st…
In the discourse on information and communications technologies (ICTs), the focus has been on the, sometimes negative, relocation of jobs from the developed world. This book focuses, instead, on the positive aspects of the introduction of ICTs and shows how they can empower women and make a difference in today′s uneven development process. It illustrates, with case studies from Argentina, Mor…
This book provides unexpected enlightenment on Ghadafi and Libyan society. Libya, going through total change, forms part of the debates in the world of today, particularly those in the Mediterranean world. With the abolition of the patriarchate, the move from tradition to modernity, the emergence of new social models, the conflicts of roles between the sexes, the society shaped by Ghadafi throu…