Indonesian and US political scholars explore the impact of economic growth on twelve major Indonesian institutions, including private and public enterprises, formal political institutions, the armed forces, the bureaucracy, non-governmental organizations, the media, and trade unions. They find that the growing gap between a governing structure that is slow to change and a dynamic broader societ…
From colonial times until the late 1970s the driving force of the Peninsular Malaysia economy was the production and export of primary products--first tin, than rubber and timber, and finally petroleum. In the 1980s export-oriented industrial production took over as the leading sector economy, enabling Malaysia to become a world-class economic performer. This volume shows how a small country wi…
These are the central questions that a group of China specialists address in China Review. The subject matters discussed in the book edited by Kuan Hsin-chi and Maurice Brosseau include major developments in the following areas: political leadership, national reunification, the armed forces, the dissidents' movement, law and order, China and the world, China-Hong Kong relation, the economy, the…
Examines the Caribbean experience from slavery through to the post-independence period. Divided into 4 broad thematic areas, the articles demonstrate the impact of colonialism and the plantation system on Caribbean Life and highlight the efforts that Caribbean peoples have made to uplift themselves from the trammels of colonialism.
This reader of nearly sixty articles covers major events in the Caribbean struggle for freedom from emancipation to the present-from Toussaint's Haiti to the more recent revolutions in Cuba, Grenada and the Dominican Republic.
A sixth collection of speeches by the President of the Republic of the Philippines." Includes bibliographical references and index. ASEAN Recourses Centre copy signed by author."
The papers in this book focus on women in Southeast Asia, and demonstrate that Boserup's formulation is equally applicable in this region. The important feature of capitalism in developing countries seems to be its ability to undermine women's traditional spheres of power and influence while simultaneously creating new conditions for further dependence on men. Thus, as a result of inappropriate…
Megatrends was a prophetic work: The information society and global economy. once the stuff of controversial theory, are now part of daily life. Networks are replacing hierarchies as the prime model for getting things done inside and outside corporations. From telecommunications to interior design, "high tech/high touch" has come to define the new relationship between people and technology.
This book aims to record this privileged moment of an immense effort made throughout the country to discard the old order of things. The time has not yet come to draw lessons from this experience, but the time is ripe for recording what has been the experience of a society dormant for many centuries and brutally thrown into the maelstrom of history.
The demise of America's Cold War-era foreign policy, has transformed Southeast Asia's relationship with the United States. No longer seen in the political context of communist containment, the countries of Southeast Asia - Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, and Vietnam - are becoming increasingly powerful players in the world economy. Their unparalleled economic growth w…