Since September 11, Al Qaeda has been portrayed as an Islamist front united in armed struggle, or jihad, against the Christian West. However, as the historian and commentator Fawaz A. Gerges argues, the reality is rather different and more complex. In fact, Al Qaeda represents a minority within the jihadist movement, and its strategies have been vehemently criticized and opposed by religious na…
By contrasting African countries that experienced genocides with African countries that might have experienced genocide but did not actually do so, Scott Straus has made a major contribution to genocide studies. His conclusion that political leadership and the 'founding narratives' of nations are the most important factors in determining outcomes is original and compelling.
For more than a decade as Indonesia's foremost diplomat, Ali Alatas in his speeches dissected and explore many issues: disarmament, reform of the United Nations, global and regional security, the imbalances in international economic relations, globalization, liberalization and a host of other. But always the theme was durable peace and the only way to reach it-by way of justice. As he propounds…
This is a book that written too soon after the tragic developments in East Timor in 1999, it could have become part of a burning debate, one that had been generating more heat than light.
Opening up our economy, making globalization fair and investing in people is not enough. Recent years have shown that globalization requires a stronger civilizational dialogue. This is an area where Indonesia, with its extraordinary ability to deal with pluralism, has a major contribution to make. To avoid clashes of ignorance and intolerance, we need a vibrant and peaceful dialogue of civiliza…
Buah pikiran yang dikomilasikan dalam buku "Dari Kyiv Menulis Indonesia" merupakan salah satu buktii ahwa prof yuddy menaruh perhatian yang sangat besar pada Ibu Pertiwi : sejarah masa lalunya, kondisi masa kini dan harapan masa depan.
This book discusses the economy. In the economic field, Bung Hatta's name cannot be separated from the progress achieved by the nation. As an economist, his life and struggles reflect his efforts and activities to build a just society, both materially and spiritually.
This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else. So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are now entering. Following on the success of his best-selling "The Future of Freedom", Zakaria describes with equal prescience a world in which the United States will no longer dominate the global economy, orchestrate geopolitics, or overwhelm…
The book provides a wide-ranging discussion of the key themes in the international relations of Southeast Asia. These themes include the impact of super-power rivalry on the region; the relationship between insurgency, separatism and regional stability; the strengths and limitations of ASEAN's approach to regional order; conflict and conflict-management in Cambodia; the emergence and evolution …
Spanning twenty-five years, this historic collection of writings shows Vaclav Havel's evolution from a modestly known playwright who had the courage to advise and criticize Czechoslovakia's leaders to a newly elected president whose first address to his fellow citizens begins, "I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you." Some of the pieces in Open Letters,…