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…
Buku in bertujuan untuk menambah pengetahuan dan pengertian kita tentang isu-isu global yang kini sedang kita hadapi. Dalam Bab 1 diuraikan tentang sifat global isu-isu tersebut. Bab 2 menguraikan tentang fungi ekologi hutan dalam hidrologi dan perlindungan tanah terhadap erosi yang sering disebut sebagai fungsi hidro-orologi. Dalam Bab 3 kita dapatkan uraian tentang keanekaan hayati dan masala…
Buku ini membahas tentang prinsip-prinsip pemerintah sebagaimana dimuat dalam Piagam Madinah dan kesesuaiannya dengan sumber ajaran utama Islam yaitu Al-Qur'an. Dengan menggunakan metode historis, analisis isi dan komparatif penulis menarik simpul-mati bahwa baik Al-Qur'an maupun piagam Madinah sama sekali tidak menetapkan sistem politik dan bentuk pemerintahan. Tapi jauh lebih penting dari itu…
It is only proper and hardly surprising, that political problems always emerge in various discussions on Islâm. In its relationship with political problems, Moslems usually say that Islam is different from many other religions. This statement, frequently little more than a stereotype, does contain substantial truth. So, denying it would be like denying a historical reality which has been going…