This book provides a framework for considering the ramifications of Japan's expanding role and influence in the Asia-Pacific region. It documents Japan's emergence as the regional "core economy"; reviews the factors that may influence Tokyo's future political and military role; poses alternative scenarios for the evolving Asia-Pacific economic, political and security order; analyses the factors…
Buku ini merupakan kumpulan tulisan para diplomat muda Indonesia yang baru menyelesaikan pendidikan di Sekolah Dinas Luar Negeri (Sekdilu) Departemen Luar Negeri. Ia mempertemukan idealisme kaum muda dengan keterampilan diplomasi dalam menelaah isu-isu utama politik luar negeri Indonesia. Buku ini secara menyeluruh mencermati enam isu utama, yaitu strategi dan keamanan, ekonomi-politik, politik…
This book is the outcome of some of those discussions that took place at last year's meeting, the lasting energy and unresolved debates that emanated from it, and ISIS Malaysia's continued commitment to raise the bar of the conversations surrounding ASEAN.
In order to gain and hold onto power, the Clinton administration has acted recklessly, allowing the wrong people to gain access to our most important political and economic secrets. Any number of Chinese arms dealers, spies, narcotics traffickers, gangsters, pimps, accomplices to mass murder, communist agents, and other undesirables will appear in these pages, all associated in one way or anoth…
Dalam buku Dimensi Publik Politik Luar Negeri, mantan Wakil Menteri Luar Negeri dan Duta Besar Amerika Serikat David D. Newson menawarkan analisis tajam dari sudut pandangannya sebagai seorang yang dalam jangka waktu panjang telah mengabdi dalam batas pemerintahan, tentang bagaimana politik luar negeri Amerika Serikat dibentuk dan kadang-kadang dibentuk secara salah. Mulai dengan penjelasan men…
The Best and the Brightest answers these questions more directly and more completely than any other book written on America in the last decade. From the self-doubting of the post-McCarthy era to the phenomenal hubris of the mid-sixties, America is captured within these pages with a lucidity and intelligence that is fascinating. The Best and the Brightest is an enormously important book.
This book is a companion volume to A Foreign Policy for India, which received the attention of scholars and practitioners of diplomacy. This book too stems from a long-felt desire to share my experiences, observations and assessments of the evolving world situation and India's responses to them at crucial times in our recent history.
In this book of specially commissioned essays, twenty world leaders assess the possibilities and perils of the new strategic, political, and economic interrelationships that are emerging around the world. They tackle such fundamental questions as: What is the future of the international system as we approach the twenty-first century? What will be the fate of disintegrating nation-states, and ho…
The premise of this paper is that the international human rights movement is facing growing problems of irrelevance to people's daily concerns, marginalisation in local and global politics, and cooptation by ruling elites, privileged classes and global economic forces in local as well as global politics. In order to resolve these problems, the movement needs to critically re-examine some of its…
Built on declared principles of partnership and respect for sovereignty, and successful in gaining legitimacy in the international community, the new model seems to offer a legitimate way to engage in state-building intervention. The book mounts a critique of these claims, showing how international legitimacy does not automatically translate into political legitimacy among those in the affected…