The Singapore Lecture is designed to provide the opportunity for distinguished statesmen, scholars, and writers and other similarly highly qualified individuals specializing in banking, commerce, international economics and finance, and philosophical and world strategic affairs to visit Singapore.
Bagi kita, demokrasi bukan lagi "benda asing". Dalam wacana perjalanan kehidupan bangsa, tatkala para pendiri bangsa menyepakati terben- tuknya sebuah negara modern, maka wacana demokrasi pun dicoba diimplementasikan walau- pun dalam prakteknya demokrasi sendiri tidak bermakna tunggal.
Vince Boudreau compares strategies of repression and protest in post-war Burma, Indonesia and the Philippines because these alternative strategies shaped the social bases and opposition cultures available to dissidents and, in turn, influenced their effectiveness. He includes first-hand research as well as the the social movements' literature to consider the interactions between the regimes in …
The seminar papers compiled in this book present a good overview of the development of democracy and its practical application in Yemen. They also shed light on the unique features of this particular democratic experience and will help in deciding on how to create political awareness among our people.
outcome of the Fourth South Asia Dialogue that took place an November 1994 among the various scholars who gathered in Kathmandu, this book presents the papers and findings of the deliberations that took place then. The issues covered were confidence building, secu- larism, democratization, elec- toral reform, decentralization of power, human rights, and endogenization of the economic policymaki…
The ever-growing political and economic power of the world's most populous country makes the Dictionary of the Politics of the People's Republic of China an essential source of reference for students, teachers, journalists, diplomats, business people and anyone else interested in the affairs of the PRC.
Southeast ASIAN Responses to Globalitation Restructuring Governance and Deepening Democracy It is now apparent, especially in the aftermath of the regional financial crisis of 1997, that globalization has been impacting upon the Southeast Asian economies and societies in new and harrowing ways, a theme of many recent studies. Inadvertently, these studies of globalization have also lighted that …
The East-West Center is an education and research orga- nization established by the US. Congress in 1960 to strengthen relations and understanding among the nations of Asia, the Pacific, and the United States. The Center promotes the development of a stable, prosperous, and peaceful Asia Pacific community through cooperative study, training, and research. Funding for the Center comes from the U…
All over the United States, Americans are deserting the political process. Why? In this national bestseller, one of our shrewdest political observers traces thirty years of volatile political history and finds that on point after point, liberals and conservatives are framing issues as a series of "false choices," making it impossi- ble for politicians to solve problems, and alienating voters in…
Since 1948, South Africa has moved from being a respected member of the British Commonwealth to being a pariah state of the world. How has this come about and what can be done about it? Why, indeed, does it generate far more intense moral passion than do other, arguably worse, regimes?