Prime Minister Hashimoto is visiting Singapore at a time when his administration is seized with the ongoing crisis in Peru. His decision to proceed with the visits to the ASEAN countries is laudable. Both Singapore and ASEAN appreciate this gesture. It has demonstrated the importance that Japan accords to its relations with ASEAN. We hope that the crisis in Peru will be peacefully resolved soon.
The end of the Cold War and the terrorist attacks of 9/11 have brought about profound changes in international politics. A new system of global governance —one that is better suited for the new political realities —is desperately needed.
ALLIES AT WAR is the first and most comprehensive assessment of what went wrong between America and Europe during the crisis over Iraq and is based on extensive interviews with policymakers in the United States and Europe. It puts the crisis over Iraq in historical context by examining US-Europe relations since World War II and shows how the alliance traditionally managed to overcome its man…
Now, drawing on recently declassified American and British top-secret documents, New York Times bestselling historian John Costello reveals how major strategic and diplomatic miscalculations by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston S. Churchill together with the military blunders committed by General MacArthur set the stage for Japan's successful attacks on Pearl Harbor and Clark Field. For the fir…
Former foreign minister and former head of the Diplomatic Institute official introduction the book: who highlights the Jordanian point of view is the foreign minister, but the one whodraws and sets the broad lines for Jordan's foreign policy is the king, and his task is to supervise and explain its implementation and ensure that it proceeds in the direction drawn for it.
Kim Dae-jung is President of the Republic of Korea. He was elected to the presidency on 18 December 1997. He has received numerous awards and honours and been conferred many honorary degrees from universities in Korea, China, the USA and Russia. He has also published about forty books in Korean, as well as English and other languages. This text contains his speech at the Singapore lecture on 27…
Contents: 1. Arms and daggers in the heart of Africa : An introduction 2. Crucible of civilization and conflicts : Ethiopia 3. The ties that will not bind : Conflict and racial cleavage in Sudan 4. Under Siege : Blood, power, and the somali state 5. Conflicting fingers within the iron fist of national unity : Uganda, etc.
The China Factor in Modern Japanese Thought examines the ideas of Tachibana Shiraki, 1881–1945, a revisionist within the Japanese Kangaku tradition, which focused on incorporating Chinese elements into Japanese culture. Tachibana advocated the study of popular culture as the key to understanding contemporary society. When militarism was on the ascendant, Tachibana was a vocal critic of mil…
How did a nation founded as a homeland for South Asian Muslims, most of whom follow a tolerant nonthreatening form of Islam, become a haven for Al Qaeda and a rogues gallery of domestic jihadist and sectarian groups? In this groundbreaking history of Pakistans involvement with radical Islam, John R. Schmidt, the senior U.S political analyst in Pakistan in the years before 9/11, places the blam…
This study has been undertaken in the context of this peculiar nature of the complex interaction, and the American interest in South Asia. All important milestones have been focused upon in this study from 1492, when Christopher Columbus managed to obtain the patronage of the Spanish crown to discover a sea route to India, down to the years just before the Partition of 1947. The visit to India …