The book is a study of Confucius and the Confucian philosophy of being non-confrontationist, benevolent and with values such as filial piety and harmony. It covers an array of themes including Qufu: Confucius Country, Music and Poetry across China, Chinese Foreign Policy, Philosophy and China’s Legal System.
This book brings together a vivid mosaic of views from a selection of countries, drawn from a variety of historical, cultural and linguistic families, all with a long tradition of strategic thinking. The views of policymakers from major global actors – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Egypt, the European Union, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spa…
This book recounts Ukraine's story through the words of its president. It is the story of a nation valiantly defending itself from Russian aggression. And it is the story of a people leading the world in the struggle for democracy. Above all, it is a battle cry for us all to stand up and fight for liberty. If not now, when?
In this new book, David Shambaugh argues that these potential pathways are all possibilities - but they depend on key decisions yet to be made by China's leaders, different pressures from within Chinese society, as well as actions taken by other nations. Assessing these scenarios and their implications, he offers a thoughtful and clear study of China's future for all those seeking to understand…
Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development.
The New Arab Wars is a profound illumination of the causes of this nightmare. It details the costs of the poor choices made by regional actors, delivers a scathing analysis of Western misreading's of the conflict, and condemns international interference that has stoked the violence. Informed by commentators and analysts from the Arab world, Marc Lynch's narrative of a vital region's collapse is…
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…