By framing the problem of terrorism in an innovative way and by focusing on the potential for strengthening collaborative networks among legitimate organizations as a primary strategy for reducing the frequency, cost, and consequences of terrorism, author has altered the discourse on terrorism. This book offers a fresh perspective on the persistent problem of terrorism relevant to decision make…
The present study attempts to examine the intricacies of the internal and external environmental pressures developed within the Nepalese system and the steps taken by successive governments to manage the contradictions by way of providing alternate Constitutions. Each such Constitution paved the way for another until a democratic Constitution became a reality.
Diplomatic Interventions argues that war is a social construction. In so doing, it unsettles the definition of intervention, as a coercive interference by one state in the affairs of another, to examine the range of communicative or 'diplomatic' practices which through their presence modify the experience of war. The tension between claims that war is pervasive and that war is a social construc…
This book is an attempt to answer this question, one may find that ASEAN-not just the ASEAN members that have claims to little pieces of land and vast waters of the South China Sea, not just individual ASEAN members, but ASEAN as a whole - has an abiding interest in peace and stability in this region and in freedom of navigation in and overflight above the South China Sea. Much of ASEAN's comme…
After a bloody revolution of more than four years (1945- 1949), Indonesia won her freedom from Holland with the transfer of sovereignty to Indonesia in December 1949. Holland had colonized Indonesia for more than three hundred years. What is now called Indonesia was formerly "The Netherlands East Indies" and consisted, according to the Dutch Constitution, of the whole of the Netherlands East In…
The ASEAN Regional Programme on Disaster Management (ARPDM) was developed by the ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management (ACDM) during 2002 and 2003 with the assistance of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) and funding support by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO), and United Nations High…
This book is about the crisis Europe. The author has stated the dilemma of Europe with brilliant clarity, precision, and urgency, and because he has had the further audacity to point the way to a solution.
More than two and one-half years after the signing of the Helsinki Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the government of Indonesia and the free Aceh movement, peace still holds in the Indonesian province of Aceh.
The present volume looks into the issue of conflict and conflict resolution from various perceptions of experts in the field of International Relations, Political Science and Strategic Studies. These perceptions examine the changing dynamics of conflict resolution and the need for an alternate approach. Our understanding of alternate approach includes the non-traditional understanding of peace …
This proceeding is a product of a two-day international conference on "Democratization and Conflict Management/Prevention in Southeast Asia in the Twenty- first Century" held in Bangkok in January 2001. The conference was organized by the Institute of Security and International Studies (ISIS), Thailand and sponsored by the United Nations Organization (Department of Political Affairs and the Uni…