Contents: 1. New rule sets 2. The rise of the "lesser includeds" 3. Disconnectedness defines danger 4. The core and the gap 5. The new ordering principle etc.
This book describes the turbulent political history of Afghanistan from the communist upheaval of the 1970s through to the aftermath of the events of 11 September 2001. It reviews the importance of the region to external powers and explains why warfare and instability have been endemic. The author analyses in detail the birth of the Taliban and the bloody rise to power of fanatic Islamists, inc…
Contents: 1. Economics, management, politics and security 2. Regional and international 3. Miscellaneous
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…
The contents of this book: - The inheritance - First things - Politics - 1971 - The new men - A national coalition
This book contains: 1. The immediate aftermath of the disintegration of the Soviet empire in Europe and the Soviet Union itself 2. The convulsive collapse of the former Yugoslavia and the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo 3. The Gulf War against Iraq and its various sequels 4. The Maastrhict Treaty for the furthering of the Europen Union 5. The tensions in China between economic liberalisation and…
The years of 2000-2004 were presumably very challenging period in conducting 'the final stage' of my work on 'Rethinking the Indonesian Crisis'. Since August 2000 I conducted several in-depth interviews in Jakarta with key people who provided important information. Most of these in-depth interviews have greatly influenced this work, and con- sistently made me rethink and re-evaluate the Indones…
In Dirty Politics, campaign analyst Kathleen Hall Jamieson provides an eye-opening look at political ads and speeches, showing us how to read, listen to, and watch political campaigns. Jamieson provides a sophisticated (and often humorous) analysis of advertising technique, describing how television ads use soft focus, slow motion, lyrical or patriotic music (Reagan used "I'm Proud to be an Ame…
After a decade of uneasy peace between the Islamic Northern Sudanese and the non-Muslim Southern Sudanese, the traditional antagonism once again erupted into violent conflict in 1983. In the ensuing civil war Arab militias and government troops repressed and devastated much of the southern populace. This man-made disaster was made worse by a series of natural disasters in the form of several pe…
The godfather of Japanese revisionism, author of MITI and the Japanese Miracle and president of the Japan Policy Research Institute explains how--and why--Japan has become a world power in the past 25 years. Johnson lucidly explains here how the Japanese economy will thrive as it moves from a producer-dominated economy to a consumer-oriented headquarters for all of East Asia.