This monograph explains why robust civil-military relations matter and discusses how they are evolving. Part I examines the jurisprudence that has reshaped civil-military relations. The author maintains that since the Vietnam era, the U.S. Supreme Court has hewn the armed forces from general society in order to create a separate -- and more socially conservative -- sphere. Part II argues that t…
The debates on regionalism have been polarized between European Union (EU) scholars and non-EU scholars, with the assumption being that regionalism within the EU and other regions of the world are quite distinct, with little to be learnt from dialogue with each other. This book challenges such assumptions and calls for a genuine debate between scholars of regionalism. This book demonstrates …
This book consists of two sections. The first section focused on the rise of Hamas as the most important and popular group in Palestine especially after the general elections of 2006. Using social movement theories as the framework for analysis, this section seeks to investigate the causes and consequences of the rise of Hamas. It is examined the causes of the continuing rise of Hamas by lookin…
With Cambodia's admission on 30 April 1999, the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) finally incorporated all ten South-East Asian states. But ASEAN in 1999 is a pale imitation of the organisation which emerged from the Cold War as a model regional institution. Since July 1997, the enlarged Association has faced unprecedented challenges. Its members are beset with economic difficulti…
In Southeast Asia, patterns of relationship between regional coun- tries and major powers have always been the main issue in discussions on security arrangement. In this book, Dewi Fortuna Anwar specifically discusses Indonesia's relations with major powers- China and Japan. She also examines Indonesia's role and position in several security issues in Southeast Asia during the 1980s. This prese…
Expanding horizons: Australia and Indonesia into the 21st century present a collection of papers by Australian and Indonesia authors which focus on economic cooperation between Australia and Indonesia as we move into the 21st century. Trade and investment between the two countries is analysed and new sectors for future collaboration are identified.
This book comprises key essays on comparative regionalism and, more broadly, on regional conflict and cooperation by Professor Etel Solingen. The study of regionalism, a subject pioneered by Solingen in the 1990s, is now an established field of inquiry, with a large community of scholars and practitioners around the world. This book provides a window into an evolving conceptual framework for c…
Globalization, like many great geopolitical ideologies before it, is now dead. Despite the almost-religious certainty with which it was originally conceived, a growing vagueness now surrounds the original promise of the global ideal that the fading power of nation states would be replaced by global markets that economics, not politics or arms, would determine the course of human events and that…
Since the first edition was published, reflecting the world as it was in mid-1991, the Soviet Union has disappeared; membership of the United Nations has leapt from 159 to 184; the Uruguay Round has been concluded; NAFTA has been born and APEC come of age; the European Community has become the European Union; environmental issues have leapt to centre stage in the transnational agenda; the victo…
Buku ini menyajikan kepada para pembaca secara ringkas tapi menyeluruh, definisi dan garis-garis besar dari politik non-alignment tersebut, asal-usulnya, kegiatan-kegiatannya, perkembangan dan masa depannya. Uraian dalam buku ini bukan saja ditinjau dari sudut kelompok negara-negara non- aligned, tetapi terutama pula dari sudut pandangan Indonesia sebagaimana diartikan dan dilaksanakan oleh Ind…