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.
This book containing selected of collection speeches and artwork of former President of Philippine Corazon C. Aquino.
The late King Faisal was born in Riyadh in 1905/6, several years after his father Abdulaziz Ibn Saud had recaptured it from Ibn Rashid. The thirteen contributions that make up this book present differing aspects of the modernisation process that took place in Saudi Arabia during the era of King Faisal.
Assassinations, abductions, racketeering, black markets, corruption, religious persecution, mass executions, and war have been the daily lot of the Iranian people since they overthrew the Shah. But according to this former Iranian leader - forced to flee because he opposed the despotism of the mullahs the revolution's original goal really was a democratic system in which "Islam would only play …
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation is a new field of study in international relations. Found in 1985, the organization itself is just a decade old, quite a short period of time in the context of the millennial history of the Indian subcontinent. An association of seven countries of the region, viz, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, it cuts acr…