The author's duty as head of the Office of Legal Counsel was to advise President Bush what he could and could not do...legally. The author took the job in October 2003 and began to review the work of his predecessors. Their opinions were the legal framework governing the conduct of the military and intelligence agencies in the war on terror, and he found many—especially those regulating the t…
The Downing Street Years is, first and foremost, a brilliant first-hand portrayal of the events and personalities of her years in power. She gives riveting accounts of the great and critical moments of her premiership the three election victories, the Falklands War, the Miners' Strike, the Brighton Bomb, the Westland Affair, her battles abroad with foreign federalists and at home with faint-hea…
This volume is the result of collaborative research between ASEAN and South Asian scholars and deals with economic relations between two important regions.
The paper have been edited for the benefit of a larger audience as the developments in these two important parts of the world have captured the interests of a growing number of people in both regions. This volume is expected could stimulate, could stimulate further discussions and research on the dept and breath of the changes that are taking place in Europe and the Asia Pacific Region and t…
Based on methodological individualism and a public-choice approach to social theory, this book provides an analysis of the interdependence of economic development, social order and interstate conflict.
This book examines America's economy over the past several decades and the sources of our recent success and comes to surprising conclusions about what we can learn from it.
The volume begins with London diary which Gandhi used to maintain as a student. Another significant document is the green pamphlets which highlighted the humiliating treatment to which the Indians in South Africa were subjected to. The volume includes several petitions he addressed to the government of Great Britain against anti-Indian legislation, and many personal and general letters Gandhi a…
This volume opens with Jawaharlal Nehru's public speech at the Ramlila Grounds in Delhi 10 May 1957. [Nehru] recalled how he used to listen to tales of what happened in 1857-58 in Allahabad, Delhi, Lucknow and other places. These stories made a deep impression on him and filled him with anger.
This volume, like the previous one, furnishes rich information on foreign affairs. He was guided, as always, by the principle of enlightened self-interest. At the same time, his responses to worldwide events were influenced by his upbringing and training and the influence of socialist and Marxian ideas. He fervently believed in decolonization, non-alignment, peace and nuclear disarmament, and I…
Buku ini merefleksikan kandungan emosional seorang Wiranto yang kaya kisah, blak-blakan, tapi tidak menyerang orang lain sehingga tetap simpatik dan argumentatif. Ditulis dengan nada lugas tapi tetap elegan, adakalanya diselingi selera humornya, dan dilengkapi informasi yang kaya dan eksklusif, buku ini memperlihatkan posisi strategis Wiranto--meminjam istilah Prof. Taufik Abdullah--"at the jun…