Emergency and confrontation: Australian military operations in Malaya & Borne…

Emergency and confrontation is the first sustained and scholarly account of Australia's, waged againts the armed forces of the Malayan communist party between 1948 and 1960, and in confrontation, an undeclared war initiated by Indonesia to destabilise the emergent federation of Malaysia and fought largely along the common border in the northern part of Borneo between 1962 and 1966.

Overseas Chinese business networks in Asia

The overseas Chinese and the Chinese of Taiwan and Hong Kong are among the most dynamic business people in Asia. Making up around six per cent of the population of South-East Asia, ethnic Chinese business people control more than 70 per cent of the region's corporate wealth.

Habibie and the democratisation of Indonesia

It is against this backdrop that this study attempts to unravel the thinking policies of this largely misunderstood man. Who is B.J Habibie? What has shaped his outlook towards life? What drives him? Why has he been so successful? What has been the course of his career? How did he succeed in reaching the highest political office in Indonesia? What were his achievement? What did his critics and…

Done making do: 1 Party rule ends in Malaysia

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…

Strategies for Asia Pacific

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ISBN/ISSN

0333653181

Deskripsi Fisik

xix, 315 Halaman;25 cm.

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

320.954 Las s

Political democracy social democracy and the market in the Caribbean

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…

The Oxford history of the American people by Samuel Eliot Morison

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…

The Asia-Australia survey 1996-97: Centre for Australia-Asia relations

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.

Turmoil and triumph: My years as Secretary of State

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.

Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge: Inside the politics of the nation building

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,…