China's Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Covering almost seventy countries by land and sea, it will affect every element of global society, from shipping to agriculture, digital economy to tourism, politics to culture. Most importantly, it symbolizes a new phase in China's ambitions as a superpower: to remake the world economy a…
This book has been prepared in an attempt to systematically structure pieces of experiences from both Indonesian and Korean’s scholars who deeply delve on governance reform. This is a priceless effort as the book could facilitate both practitioners and academicians to gain knowledge on how each country has performed the governance reform.
Highlighting the domestic dimensions in the arrangement of two major trading blocs in the contemporary economic regionalism phenomena, Southeast Asia’s AFTA (ASEAN Free Trade Agreement) and Latin Americas MERCOSUR (Mercado Comun del Sur), this study addresses the idea of the state as being a basic pact of domination as it generates two types of capitalist integration setting : the commodity l…
Sino-Japanese relations were seriously rattled in September 2010 when a Chinese fishing boat rammed a Japanese Coast Guard patrol ship in Japanese waters off the Senkaku Islands. This was compounded in April 2012 when Tokyo Governor Ishihara Shintaro announced that he planned to buy the islands and added, “if this means war with China, so be it.” Alarmed at the prospect of Ishihara owning t…
Buku ini menceritakan kisah sukses negara-negara yang terlebih dahulu menikmati hasil dari kebijakan blue economy-nya. Dengan melihat fakta geopolitik, sumber daya nasional, dan bonus demografinya. Indonesia memiliki modalitas dan peluang yang sangat mencukupi untuk tampil menjadi negara maju di tahun 2045. Tekad dan semangat menyatukan wilayah Nusantara telah tumbuh sejak zaman Sriwijaya pa…
In Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Klaus Schwab explores how people from all backgrounds and sectors can influence the way that technology transforms our world. Drawing on contributions by more than 200 of the world's leading technology, economic and sociological experts to present a practical guide for citizens, business leaders, social influencers and policy-makers this book outline…
This new study by its president of Uzbekistan's special opportunities and challenges as it faces the 21st century will be of interest to strategists, politicians and students of the post-Soviet climate. Contents: Part I : Threats to security Part II : Conditions of stability and guarantess for progress.
Through research, conferences, consultations, and publications, the centre seeks to illuminate ways of promoting ASEAN's purposes--political solidarity, economic integration and regional cooperation--and the obstacles on the path to achieving them. The centre aims to conduct studies and make policy recommendations on issues and events that call for collective ASEAN actions and responses.
This report, the first in the ASEAN Studies Centre report series, begins with a brief account of the important points raised during the discussions made at the workshop on The ASEAN Community: Unblocking the Roadblocks, organized by the ASEAN Studies Centre and the Regional Economic Studies Programme on 15 April 2008. The first endeavour in which the new ASEAN Studies Centre was actively involv…
This book is a story of rising from humble beginnings to the highest level of diplomatic service. It speaks to many themes and issues from faith to the value of working hard, from national conflicts to development. It is a story told with passion but sprinkled with dispassionate facts.