Buku ini merupakan kompilasi surat-surat rahasia Compton yang ditulisnya selama masa lima puluhan, di mana merupakan masa "optimisme" bagi proses perwu-judan "demokrasi" di negeri ini. Pada masa itulah berbagai konflik internal, selain dalam rangka penyempurnaan konstruksi pemerintahan negara baru ini berlangsung, juga sewajarnya dilihat dalam perspektit rasa tanggung jawab akan nasib perkemban…
wartawan di berbagai tempat di Tanah Air, juga di ibukota Jakarta, kesulitan mendapatkan informasi dari badan-badan pemerintah, bahkan informasi tentang hal-hal yangs sifatnya sangat umum. Penelitian ISAI di enam pemerintah daerah menemukan bahwa akses terhadap informasi publik oleh wartawan tidak semudah yang dibayangkan orang. Ditulis dengan dua bahasa
When David Cole was first writing Enemy Aliens, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the anti-immigrant brand of American patriotism was at a fever pitch. Now, as the pendulum swings back, and court after court finds the Bush administration's tactics of secrecy and assumption of guilt unconstitutional, Cole's book stands as a prescient and critical indictment of the double standards we have appl…
On the day of the meeting [September 4, 2001], Clarke sent Rice an impassioned personal note. He criticized U.S. counterterrorism efforts past and present. The 'real question' before the principals, he wrote, was 'are we serious about dealing with the al-Qida threat?...Is al-Qida a big deal?...Decision makers should imagine themselves on a future day when the CSG has not succeeded in stopping a…
In this report, the Independent Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, chaired by Hands Blix, confronts this global challenge and presents 60 recommendations on what the world community-national governments and civil society-an and should do. Contents: 1. Reviving disarmament 2. Weapons of terror : threats and responses 3. Nuclear weapons 4. Biological and toxin weapons, etc.
This team of international experts analyses the possibilities and limitations of preventing or reducing terrorism by addressing the factors that give rise to it and sustain it. The key questions raised include: * what are the main circumstances that provide preconditions for the emergence of various types of terrorism? * what are the typical precipitants that trigger terrorist campaigns? …
One of our most brilliant public intellectuals, Paul Berman has spent his career writing on revolutionary movements and their totalitarian aspects. Here he argues that, in the terror war, we are not facing a battle of the West against Islam—a clash of civilizations. We are facing, instead, the same battle that tore apart Europe during most of the twentieth century, only in a new version. It i…
Before & After examines the role of US foreign policy in the terrorism/anti-terrorism crisis that began―publicly―with the attack on the World Trade Center, but which in fact has roots that began long before that September day. It dissects not only the specific Middle East policies long identified with public opposition in the region (for example: support for Israeli occupation of Palestinia…
Buku ini memuat hasil riset tentang dinamika masyarakat sipil meretas jalan perdamaian di Indonesia, Timor Timur, Filipina serla Papua New Guinea. Penerbitan buku ini bertujuan menfasilitasi pertukaran informasi mengenai upaya-upaya resolusi konflik dan penciptaan perdamaian yang selama ini telah berlangsung di berbagai belahan dunia, termasuk di Asia Pasifik. Pertukaran informasi antar organis…
Contents: 1. Definitions for lonely atoms. 2. Justifications: Self-defense. 3. Justifications: Policy and choice. 4. Justifications: Fate. 5. Evaluations. etc.