This book offers a general introduction to China's process of the establishment of its legal system, legislative system and major branches of the law, etc. displaying the principal aspects of China's socialist legal system. The contents of this book cover China's constitutional law, administrative law, civil, commercial and economic law, criminal law, procedural law, State compensation law, jud…
Covering an 18-month span, this latest edition of China Briefing assesses the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen tragedy and its continuing impact on China's domestic and foreign policies. The book opens with an exploration of the legitimacy crisis currently engulfing the Chinese Communist state. A review of the Chinese economy concludes that although it is healthier in 1991 than in 1990, the post…
My France focuses on some of the most intriguing aspects of French life: politics, myths, personalities, public problems, actions, and conflicts. The topics Weber treats range from sports to religion, and include comments on folklore, national socialism, antisemitism, and famous Frenchmen.
This unique volume brings together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars as well as Czech and Slovak decisionmakers who were personally involved in the events leading up to the separation of Czechoslovakia. Asking whether the dissolution was inevitable, the contributors bring a range of different approaches and perspectives to bear on the twin problems of democratic transitions in multinationa…
Czechoslovakia, one of the most rigid and authoritarian of the former Soviet Union's satellite states, started the transition from communism with high hopes. But a decade of change has exposed the full extent of the damage wrought to the country through decades of communist rule. For one thing, the country could not hold together, splitting apart into two independent states in 1993. This book l…
Contents: 1. The return of fear 2. Deathboats and lifeboats 3. Command versus spontaneity 4. The emergence of autonomy etc.
Buku ini menjelaskan bahwa ketahanan nasional telah menjadi salah satu prinsip dalam pemikiran keamanan, pertahanan dan politik luar negeri kita sejak Proklamasi Kemerdekaan 30 tahun yang lalu. Berlainan dengan pertahanan dan pembelaan negara, maka ketahanan nasional tidak langsung menekankan kepada penolakan terhadap suatu bahaya, ancaman atau gangguan dari luar atau dari dalam. Ketahanan nasi…
Peter Popham distills five years of research including covert trips to Burma, meetings with Suu Kyi and her friends and family, and extracts from the unpublished diaries of her co-campaigner and former confidante Ma Thanegi into this vivid portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi, illuminating her public successes and private sorrows, her intellect and enduring sense of humor, her commitment to peaceful re…
The brief tenure of Alexander Dubcek, the charismatic and courageous leader of Czechoslovakia during the heady "Prague Spring" of 1986, rocked the foundations of European communism. Dubcek, who believed in "Socialism with a human face", brought what Andrei Sakharov called "the breath of freedom" to the Iron Curtain Countries. But the Soviet invasion of August 1968 and Dubcek's removal from powe…
Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. But few outside his close friends and family have heard the story of his extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor, and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady. Living History…