This is a book about leaders and leadership, in particular the leaders of the Asia-Pacific. It is based around inter- views I have had with all the leaders profiled here except President Suharto of Indonesia, President Clinton of the United States, and President Lee Teng-hui of Taiwan. With all the other leaders I have had at least one, and mostly several, interviews in the course of covering t…
Although it is currently the most important political ideal, there is much confusion about what the 'rule of law' means and how it works. Brian Tamanaha outlines the concerns of Western conservatives about the decline of the rule of law and suggests reasons why the radical Left have promoted this decline. Two basic theoretical streams of the rule of law are then presented, with an examination o…
Between 2000 and 2010, six of the ten fastest-growing economies worldwide were African. In this favorable environment, how do we make sure jobs and poverty reduction follow? Now is the time for African countries to consider how economic growth and political liberalization should reinforce each other. Africa has experienced two liberations: the first from colonial and racist regimes and the seco…
Assessing all aspects of security in the Gulf region, the authors consider the impact of the new superpower relationship, the problem of the regional arms race, the political and economic situation in each of the Gulf countries, the role of the EC and Japan in Gulf energy relations, and the seriousness of potential future energy insecurity for the West.
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…
ASEAN Connectivity in the Indonesian Context: A Preliminary Study on the Geopolitics of Hydropower and Maritime Transport is a research focusing on the concept of ASEAN Connectivity in the context of Indonesia, with a specific emphasis on the geopolitical aspects of hydropower and maritime transport. This abstract provides an overview of how ASEAN Connectivity efforts can impact geopolitical dy…
In The Downing Street Years Margaret Thatcher gave her own account of her prime ministership from 1979 to 1990. Now, in The Path to Power, she writes for the first time about her personal life, about the formation of her character and values, and about the training and experiences which led to the 1979 election victory.
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…
For over two decades Harris was at the centre, alongside or just adrift of political power in the wealthy Malaysian state of Sabah. Paul Raffaele has written a wide-ranging biography that reveals many little-known but important incidents in Harris's life.
The modest, white-walled Noor Al-Ihsan mosque on the northern outskirts of Phnom Penh was one of the two oldest buildings in the Cambodian capital. When the city, supposedly founded in 1434, celebrated its 550th anniversary in 1984, few if any Phnom Penh buildings predated the nineteenth century. A sign in Arabic and Khmer above the old mosque's entrance dated its foundation to 1813. That was j…