A few days from now, a Conference of Foreign Ministers will be held in Manila to discuss the possibilities of a Treaty Organization for Southeasta Asia and the Southwest Pacific. The countries represented in this Conference are: Pakistan, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, France, Great Britain, the United States and the Philippines. What has brought these Govenments together in this Conference …
Book Megatrends (1982) sold more than 8 million copies world wide and remained at the top of the bestseller lists for two years. That book, and Megatrends 2000, established John Naisbitt as one of the world's foremost forecasters of social, economic, political and cultural trends. In those books, he accurately predicted trends ranging from the globalisation of the econo- my to the surging Impac…
The Foundations and Future of British Security (pp.5-16) by The Royal Society of Arts under the auspices of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS); European Security (pp. 17-24) by The Royal Institute of International Relations (IRRI); Transatlantic Relations (pp. 25-33) by The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations; East-West Relations: The British Role (pp.35-43) by The Roy…
In gesprek met Indonesiërs en Nederlanders Toen op 17 augustus 1945 de Republiek Indonesië werd uitgeroe- pen, ontstond een langdurig conflict tussen de jonge republiek en Nederland. Na vijftig jaar is de tijd rijp om terug en vooruit te zien.
At that time the Soviet Union still existed and the cold wat was very much alive, particularly with Ronald Reagan in the White House, and the Introduction reflects this. It is presented here because it offers a concise history of the cold war and a background to understanding the impetus behind, and the nature of, the many American interventions throughout the world. The actual case histories o…
For over a billion Muslims all over the world the new For world order is dead even before it was born. Twentieth century has witnessed many a people talking of a new world order. After the First World War, the American President Woodrow Wilson tried to breath some fresh air into the debate on the future world order and came out with the dream of a world ruled by principles and universally accep…
The idea of neutralizing Southeast Asia--a historical battlefield of both indigenous and forces--is a subject that has attracted the attention of many statesmen and scholars alike for many years.
A collection of speeches and writings by Professor Tommy Koh, Singapore's long-time ambassador to the UN. He provides an insider's view of the workings and failings of the UN system, multilateral negotiations, bargaining, and Singapore's economic progress and foreign policy options. Accessible to general readers, policy makers, and academic specialists interested in international organizations …
In this book, completed after his 80th birthday, he covers his activities after Parliament. He reviews Governor-General Kerr's coup and robustly rebuts Chief Justice Barwick's doctrines. He examines the repercussions of the US withdrawal from Viet Nam and the Portuguese withdrawal from Timor in 1975 and the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. He discusses the decline of the Hawke Government, t…
In this explosive book, Peter Schweizer provides the riveting details of how the Reagan inner circle undermined the Soviet economy and its dwindling resource base and subverted the Kremlin's hold on its global empire. Using secret diplomacy, the administration dramatically reduced Soviet income while at the same time driving Moscow to expend an increasing amount of precious assets. On another l…