The past five years have held tremendous significance for the process of nation building in Malaysia. Civil society and voters -- especially in urban areas -- are making new and strong demands on the government, in fact on governance per se; the opposition parties that managed to pull off successful electoral upsets in 2008 have formed a viable coalition to challenge the long-term federal gover…
The book consists of articles on Democracy in Caribbean Societies. Some of the articles benefited from the comments during the conference discussions and have been revised by the authors. This book contributes particularly to the theory and practices of democracy in the Caribbean of the twenty first century and is the second in a series of monographs published by the Democracy Unit. I am gratef…
Without neglecting political history, it contains more social history than any other book of similar size. It treats of popular sports and pastimes, such as shooting, fishing, horse racing, and sail- ing: eating and drinking customs; devel- opments in fine arts, music, and medicine; deals with the revolution in sexual mores, and pays particular attention to the American Indian. The parallel his…
This third volume of a unique reference provides the only detailed survey of Australia's relations with the countries of Asia. Updated annually, it provides expert coverage of the special relationship with each Asian country through a mix of facts, figures and empirical analysis.
I was tired after six and one-half tumultuous years, and I felt that memoirs couldeasily be self-serving. Turn over the documents to the historians, I thought. Soon my energy returned and, as I looked into my record, I felt a renewed sense of excitement about what had happaned on my watch, and a desire to set out the flow of events as they appeared from my own point of view.
This book tells of the events and personalities that shaped Cambodian history during the thirteen-year period between the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979 and the signing of the 1991 peace accords that resulted in U.N.-administered elections. The first study of this turbulent era, it offers a nuanced understanding of complex questions concerning human rights, economic reconstruction,…
In Between Hope and History, President Bill Clinton offers the American people his vision for the country as we enter the twenty-first century. The President sees the nation poised on the edge of what he calls "the age of possibility. With elo quence and clarity, he details the broad values of opportunity, responsibility, and community that he regards as critical to helping America meet our cha…
In this gripping memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history. Sorensen returns to January 1953, when he and the freshman senator from Massachusetts began their extraordinary professional and personal relationship. Rising from legislative assistant to speechwriter and advisor…
Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics — one built on the shared understanding that unites us as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's place in the world, candidly candid about his family life and time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political beliefs and inspires us to believe in the steady optimism that has long defined us and that is our best hope g…