At century's end is a powerfull collection of essays and interviews by thirty of the world's top thinkers and leaders, providing insight on the course of the world at the end of the twentieth century. Never ponderous nor heavy, the writing is concise, informative, and thought-provoking, giving perspectives from many regions of the globe.
The Islamic world stretches from North America to Shoutheast Asia and includes some forty independent states in which Muslims constitute a majority of the population.
The essays and speeches in this book were written by a man who needs no passport to travel the world. He has roamed the globe with his mind and his pen, has experienced new cultures through a lifetime of reading. Senate President Blas F. Ople, apart from being proud to be a Filipino, also takes pride in being a citizen of the world.
The distant origins of the present volume lie in an article entitled "The End of History?" which I wrote for the journal The national Interest in the summer of 1989. This was not to say that today's stable democracies, like the United States, France, or Switzerland, were not without injustice or seriuos social problems.
Rajiv Gandhi: The years of power is the culmination of nine years of study of democracy and three years of intense research and writing on Rajiv Gandhi as prime minister of India.
On October 1, 1982, the German Bundestag elected Helmut Kohl Federal Chancellor. Of the 495 votes cast, 256 were cast for the leader of the Opposition and chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, who thereupon replaced Helmut Schmidt (SPD) as head of government. After the results of the vote were announced by the Vice President of the Bun- destag, Richard Stucklen, the supporters of the new…
This book contains a wealth of knowledge and experience of Dr. Jose Paciano Laurel as a teacher, lawyer, member of parliament, jurist, political leader and statesman, he took lessons that are very relevant to current African national problems so that more people should know about them
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. The presence of such eminent personalities will allow Singaporeans, especially the younger executi…
The Prophetic and the Political presents a selection of speeches and writings of Mr. S. Rajaratnam, the Senior Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Singapore. Mr. Rajaratnam has given so many speeches in the course of his distinguished political career and the range of topics covered has been so wide that the selection of his major and significant speeches and writings posed a problem. We h…
The assertiveness of the Islamic ethos in many parts of the world since the 1970s is a reality witnessed in many countries, particularly those with sizeable Muslim populations, and Malaysia is no exception.