Kim Dae-jung is President of the Republic of Korea. He was elected to the presidency on 18 December 1997. He has received numerous awards and honours and been conferred many honorary degrees from universities in Korea, China, the USA and Russia. He has also published about forty books in Korean, as well as English and other languages. This text contains his speech at the Singapore lecture on 27…
Daftar isi: - Anak abad zamannya - Karya-karya Jawaharlal Nehru - Sebuah kronologi - Nehru dan Indonesia - Tahun 1927-Kontak pertama dan lain-lain.
This is an account of how the Tamil militant campaign for a homeland called Eelam has gone awry after many spectacular victories scored in the battles against Sri Lanka forces. Capping the book are two informed epilogues ahead of yet another round of talks between the Sri Lanka government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) amid growing global concern over terrorism.
Contents: 1. Arms and daggers in the heart of Africa : An introduction 2. Crucible of civilization and conflicts : Ethiopia 3. The ties that will not bind : Conflict and racial cleavage in Sudan 4. Under Siege : Blood, power, and the somali state 5. Conflicting fingers within the iron fist of national unity : Uganda, etc.
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Deng and the reform era 3. Foreign policy without Deng
Daftar isi: 1. Introduction 2. The geopolitical interconnection between 3. ASEAN-India relations during the cold war 4. Regional perceptions of India 5. ASEAN in India's foreign policy 6. In search of a role : India and the ASEAN regional forum 7. India's confrontation with Chinese interests 8. China factor in India's ties with South-East Asia.
Red China Blues is Wong's startling and ironic memoir of her rocky six-year romance with Maoism that began to sour as she became aware of the harsh realities of Chinese communism and led to her eventual repatriation to the West. Returning to China in the late eighties as a journalist, she covered both the brutal Tiananmen Square crackdown and the tumultuous era of capitalist reforms under Deng …
The contents of this book: 1. The moment of truth 2. The performance machine 3. The victors and the vanquished 4. The peaceful revenge, etc.
What Next? tackles the big questions about our global condition and our collective future with a verve and authority no other current commentator or political figure, on either side of the Atlantic or the Channel, could match. Energy, food, water, international crime, weapons proliferation, drug trafficking, climate change, epidemic disease, migration - the challenges facing our world are thems…
Ahmed Rashid is the voice of reason amid the chaos of Central Asia today. His unique knowledge of this complex, war-torn region gives him a panoramic vision and grasp of nuance that no Western writer can emulate. In Descent Into Chaos, Rashid reviews the regional conditions since 9/11 and the catastrophic aftermath of America’s failed war on terror. The underlying theme is clear, devastating …