Perjalanan Timor Timur dari status kolonial menuju kemerdekaan adalah narasi yang kompleks dan berliku-liku yang mencerminkan perjuangan keras rakyat Timor Timur untuk meraih kedaulatan mereka. Artikel ini mengulas sejarah Timor Timur sejak masa penjajahan hingga perjuangan kemerdekaannya yang mengarah pada kemerdekaan pada tahun 2002. Awalnya menjadi bagian dari Imperium Portugis, Timor Timur …
This book is a wide-ranging and intelligent survey of global trends —from population growth and global warming to the revolutions in biotechnology and robotics— and how they are likely to influence, if not dictate, the shape of society in coming years. The book is divided into three parts. The first is largely descriptive and examines general world trends. A chapter each is devoted to the p…
Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The End of History and th…
For observers outside of Southeast Asia, this book opens up a world of conflicts, rivalries, and reconciliations that is terra incognita. It is easy to assume that all is well under the consensual Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) umbrella. These expert authors detail the sometimes stormy and often tense bilateral relationships in the region. In doing so they delineate the profound…
Contents: 1. Overview: The international situation and Japanese diplomacy in 2003 2. Regional diplomacy 3. Japan's foreign policy in major diplomatic fields 4. Widening diplomacy 5. Assistance for Japanese nationals and companies overseas 6. Structure supporting Japan's diplomacy
The Darfur conflict has presented the international community with a number of challenges. How can the fighting be stopped in Darfur? What can be done to save lives and help the two million people displaced by the conflict? And how to help bring about peace, whilst ensuring that the peace agreement for the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983 - 2005) is implemented? Drawing on original research, and…
What do our Asian neighbours say about us when they're talking to each other? In the case of Indonesia we now have the opportunity to find out. This translation of the first contemporary book written for Indonesians about Australia describes for others our history, culture, contemporary politics, and what the author sees as the current coming of age of "the land of the kangaroo". Full of unexpe…
Facing up to the Past offers a heavily revised English-language version of Het verleden ander ogen. To enhance global under- standing, most contributions from outside the sphere of the Netherlands have been maintained, while most of choose centering on the Netherlands and its former colonies have been replaced by new contributions particularly from Africa. Written by eminent scholars and opinio…
Armed with a thorough knowledge of Asia, Jim Rohwer is a benevolent but sharp witness of the region's fortunes. He gathers hard facts and opinions from impeccable sources and builds around them a very compelling picture of Asia's need to feed on the best standards America can offer. Asia ought to be selective in the process, and Jim Rohwer offers penetrating views on how the countries of the re…
In False Economy, Alan Beattie weaves together the economic choices, political choices, economic history, and human stories, that determine whether governments and countries remain rich or poor. False Economy is a lively and lucid book that engagingly and thought-provokingly examines macroeconomics, economic topics, and the fault lines and successes that can make or break a culture or induce…