The crisis in the Middle East pro- duced something which may well be described as a diplomatic revolution. It began apparently with an American rebuff to Egypt. It ended with scarcely veiled threats from America to Israel and in midstream it revealed the United States and the Soviet Union in uneasy alliance against Britain and France. It split the fragile unity of the Commonwealth and it led Br…
This text seeks to provide an understanding of Southeast Asia as a region, the problems of statehood faced by the individual countries, and the search for regional order, peace and stability.
A compilation of comparative studies of local politics and political cultures in term of the social integration in postcolonial insular Southeast Asia such as Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia. This book attempts to clarify the influence of colonial knowledge on the relationship between the colonized and the colonizer, focusing on the postcolonial political situations as a local pros…
This book provides insight into Indonesia's system of government and elections. It focuses on the roles of the 1945 Constitution, the Pancasila, the DPR (Legislative Assembly) and the MPR (Peoples Consultative Assembly) and the ways they have functioned during elections since Independence. The development of democracy and the roles of Islam and the military through the presidencies of Sukarno, …
Contents: 1. Before GE13 was called 2. Nominations and campaign 3. Polling day and result 4. Now that GE13 is over.
The East Asian Strategic Review 2004 covers trends in the security environment of East Asia over the twelve-month period ending Desember 31, 2003. Event today, more than ten years after the end of the cold war, the situation in east asia is fraught with tensions.
The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies focuses on two parallel intellectual and political movements that have arisen to address this challenge: the 'politics of reconciliation', with its focus on reparations, truth-telling and healing amongst former adversaries, and the 'politics of difference', with its focus on the recognition and empowerment of minorities in multicultural …
"This book examines and compares two elections in Indonesia - the last New Order election in May 1997 under the authoritarian government, and the first free election in the post-Suharto era in June 1999 - making an important contribution to our understanding of the demise of the New Order, and the directions being taken by the new regime. By exploring a mix of local, cultural, national and poli…
But who is Kevin Rudd? We know the soundbites - a sometimes rough childhood in Queensland, a diplomatic career in Beijing, an extremely successful wife - but how well do we know the man who now runs the country? What did his time as a bureaucrat in the Queensland government reveal about him? How influential a role does his religion play in his life? Who are the people most significant to him? I…
Hunter's study is instructive not only for specialists of Latin American politics, but also for students of comparative party analysis. She demonstrates how imperatives of party competition and the stickiness of past organizational and activist commitments jointly shape the strategic trajectory of partisan politics.