Perjuangan sedikitnya memerlukan tiga prasyarat utama: pengorbanan, kesabaran, dan keteguhan. Inilah, paling tidak, yang terlihat jelas dari sosok Imam Ayatullah Khomeini (1902-1989) ketika berjuang melawan rezim Dinasti Pahlevi. Sebelum akhirnya berhasil menggerakkan revolusi yang menggulingkan rezim Syah-Reza Pahlevi, Ayatullah harus keluar masuk penjara dan selama 15 tahun harus menjalani hi…
When Syrian President Bashar al-Assad came to power upon his father's death in 2000, many in- and outside Syria held high hopes that the popular young doctor would bring long-awaited reform, that he would be a new kind of Middle East leader capable of guiding his country toward genuine democracy. David Lesch was one of those who saw this promise in Assad. A widely respected Middle East scholar …
Journalist Jonathan Cook explores Israel’s key role in persuading the Bush administration to invade Iraq, as part of a plan to remake the Middle East, and their joint determination to isolate Iran and prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons that might rival Israel’s own. This concise and clearly argued book makes the case that Israel's desire to be the sole regional power in the Middl…
A military chronicle of the Iraq war is a critical assessment of America's role as viewed from the firsthand perspectives of senior military officers that argues that the guerrilla insurgency that took place in the months after the fall of Saddam Hussein was avoidable and that officers who spoke against the war did so at the cost of their careers.
During the last presidential election in Iran, nonviolent protestors defied the mullahs’ power by wearing green ribbons on their wrists. In June of 2009, the inhabitants of Tehran were living underground to escape the government’s authority, strangled by interdictions, dreaming of freedom and revolution. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran and desperate to maintai…
This book provided about Uruguay round of multilateral trade negotiations under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is the first in the long history of trade negotiations in GATT in which negotiations on agriculture have been given a central role.
Buku ini merupakan rangkaian makalah dengan pemilihan topik didasarkan pada kenyataan bahwa sejak 1991 peran sektor industri dalam pendapatan nasional sudah lebih tinggi daripada sektor pertanian sehingga Indonesia sudah dianggap masuk tahap awal industrialisasi.
This book provides the insights and predictive tools every business will need to stay ahead of the game now that the rules have changed. Understanding how to take advantage of the opportunities of a transformed world--how to reshape business strategies, prepare organizations, plan investments, and adapt or change management methods--requires a breadth of vision few possess.
Buku ini mengkaji tentang keberhasilan ekonomi yang dicapai oleh negara-negara industri baru di Asia Timur. Dilihat dari pertumbuhan ekonomi, ataupun berdasarkan kriteria ekonomi dan kesejahteraan, kelompok negara-negara Asia Timur ini berada jauh di atas negara-negara berkembang lain di dunia.
A collection of speeches given around the time of the struggle of Chavez and the popular forces to gain control of the giant oil company PDVSA, nominally nationalised but until this time effectively in the hands of the Venezuelan oligarchy. Speeches by President of Venezuela, December 2002 to January 2003. Hugo Chavez expresses the general principles of socialism, solidarity with the government…