What is being done to counter threats of maritime terrorism and how effective are the safeguards? The author presents evidence that Al-Qaeda aims to disrupt the seaborne trading system, the backbone of the model global economy, and would use a crude nuclear explosive device or radiological bomb to do so if it could obtain one and position it to go off in a port-city, shipping strait or waterway…
The Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2009 analyses how three global crises of 2008 – Great Recession in developed countries, food and fuel price volatility and climate change - threaten the development in the Asia-Pacific region. The publication also talks about subregional variations in performance and policy responses. It concludes with converging crises and redirecting po…
This book is a pioneering effort to address the conditions prevailing in a traditional society that is opening up to change and modernization. The book explains: 1. The geography of Nepal 2. The people of Nepal 3. Society and religion 4. The Nepalese personality 5. Art and literature.
This book is about wars and anti-wars to come. It is for the Bosnian child whose face has been half ripped away by explosives, and for his mother staring with glazed eyes at what is left. It is for all the innocents of tomorrow who will both kill and die for reasons they do not understand . It is a book about peace. Which means it is a book about war in the startling new conditions we are creat…
Buku ini terdiri atas dua bagian yang secara umum memaparkan latar belakang topik-topik utama seputar peran diaspora dalam pembangunan jangka panjang, mekanisme-mekanisme dan saluran-saluran untuk derma diaspora, inovasi-inovasi, kaitan-kaitan, lingkungan yang memberikan peluang lalu akhirnya tindakan-tindakan nyata yang dapat diambil untuk mendorong pergeseran ke derma yang lebih strategis.
In The Next War, former U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and bestselling author Peter Schweizer dramatize the outbreak, progress, and outcome of major wars most likely to occur over the next dozen years. To predict the performance of U.S. forces - and the outcome for America and her allies - the authors use the latest and most authoritative assessments of our technological resources, tr…
Buku ini menawarkan teori-teori yang selaras dengan perkembangan nyata ekonomi dunia saat ini yang kian interdependent dan global, dan juga membahas kasus-kasus konkrit secara populer sehingga mempermudah pembaca memahami penjelasan teoritis yang relatif abstrak. Buku ini mempunyai isi: 1. Produktivitas tenaga kerja dan keunggulan komparatif: Model Ricardo 2. Faktor-faktor produksi spesifi…
In many developing countries the presence of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can no longer be ignored. They are engaged in an extensive array of activities, including philanthropic work to people left out of the developmental process as well as efforts at addressing problems of environmental destruction and other negative consequences of economic development, and efforts to institutionali…
Every specialized field of knowledge possesses its own unique complex of symbols or language. This allows it to delineate its boundaries and address its subject matter in a manner that is intelligible and economical to its members. Language names things, tells what is significant about them, puts them in relation with one another and conveys them to others. In short, language fulfils labelling,…
The contributors discuss Soviet-North Korean nuclear relations, economic and military aspects of the nuclear program, the nuclear energy sector, North Korea's negotiations with the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, cooperative security, and U.S. policy. Unique in its focus on North Korean attitudes and perspectives, The North Korean Nuclear Program also includes Russian intervie…