In this succinct, modest, and refreshingly forthright book--now revised and updated for the new century--Starr introduces to the uninitiated reader the background, basic data, and issues at stake in China's crisis-ridden present and future. After ten years, John Bryan Starr has thoroughly revised and updated his classic introduction to the background of, the data about, and the issues at sta…
Contents: 1. The economy and factors influencing foreign aid regime 2. The study and its scope 3. Review of development priorities 4. Critical appraisal of foreign aid operation etc.
The Contents of this book Part One: Post-War: 1945-1953 Part Two: Prosperity and Its Discontents: 1953-1971 Part Three: Recessional: 1971-1989 Part Four: After the Fall: 1989-2005
This new edition of the preeminent history of Latin America has been brought up to date in all areas, examining the implications of the end of the Cold War on U.S.-Latin America realtions, such recent developments as international drug trafficking, and the ongoing trend away from authoritarian regimes toward civilian leaders and elected goverments.
Langkanya buku tentang BPHTB (Bea Perolehan Hak Atas Tanah dan Bangunan)mendorong penulis untuk menulis buku ini dengan harapan dapat memenuhi khazanah bacaan dibidang perpajakan, khususnya BPHTB. Buku ini penting bagi masyarakat yang memperolehsuatu hak atas tanah dan bangunan agar dapat memenuhi kewajiban pelunasan BPHTB terutang dengan benar. Buku ini juga ditujukan kepada pejabat yang berwe…
The contents of this book: 1. Overview of the Global Compiltaion 2. Global Compilation of National Legislation Againts Racial Discrimination
This book explores the contribution that international law may make to the resolution of culture conflicts--political disputes between the members of different ethno-cultural groups--in democratic States. International law recognizes that persons belonging to minorities have the right to enjoy their own culture and peoples have the right to self-determination without detailing how these princip…
Contents: 1. Internally displaced persons and refugees: Conceptual differences and similarities 2. The legal protection of internally displaced persons 3. The institutional framework of protection for the internally displaced etc.
Corruption is a threat to democracy and economic development in many societies. It arises in the ways people pursue, use, and exchange wealth and power, and in the strength or weakness of the state, political, and social institutions that sustain and restrain those processes. Michael Johnston argues, give rise to four major syndromes of corruption: Influence markets, elite cartels, oligarchs an…
There has been considerable debate in the international community as to the legality of the forceful actions in Kosovo in 1999, Afghanistan in 2002 and Iraq in 2003 under the United Nations Charter. There has been consensus, however, that the use of force in all these situations had to be both proportional and necessary. Against the background of these recent armed conflicts, this book offers t…