Seperti dua sisi mata uang, beberapa kebijakan Pemerintahan SBY memang sempat menuai kontroversi. Sedang pada sisi lain, beberapa kebijakan yang lain juga patut untuk mendapatkan pujian. Salah satu yang mungkin bisa dijadikan pijakan di dalam hal ini adalah keberhasilan SBY dalam memberantas korupsi, Berbagai kasus korupsi ditangani dan memperoleh hasil yang maksimal. Mulai dari pejabat negara …
After an introduction by the volume editors, the book offers a look at the complex relationship between nationalism and democracy. The authors then examine the special challenges facing democracy in ethnically divided societies.
This series is dedicated to the proposition that it is no longer valid or profitable to study comparative politics within an essentially North American and European-centered frame of reference. Although admittedly more familiar, more comprehensible, and in the past, at least-closer and more important to us, the political histories, ideologies, and institutions of these areas constitute only a s…
Megatrends was a prophetic work: The information society and global economy. once the stuff of controversial theory, are now part of daily life. Networks are replacing hierarchies as the prime model for getting things done inside and outside corporations. From telecommunications to interior design, "high tech/high touch" has come to define the new relationship between people and technology.
The positive reception the publication of Swiss Democracy received two years ago demonstrated the large public interest in Switzerland. As few English publications on Swiss polity and politics exist, political science colleagues use the book as a basic reference and a concise introduction, mainly to explain the sense and the functioning of consensus democracy, power sharing or federalism. Sever…
This book aims to record this privileged moment of an immense effort made throughout the country to discard the old order of things. The time has not yet come to draw lessons from this experience, but the time is ripe for recording what has been the experience of a society dormant for many centuries and brutally thrown into the maelstrom of history.
War & Peace on the Korean Peninsula (pp. 1-11) by Kevin Rudd; Apocalypse Next: Will Asia become the Next Arena for Great Power Conflict? (pp. 12-17) by Greg Austin; Great Power Relations and the issue of Taiwan in the Asia-Pacific (pp. 18-23) by Malcolm Fraser; Human Security in Development and Crisis: How to Capture Human Security in Regional Institutional Arrangements? (pp. 24-34) by Micha…
A wide ranging investigation into the workings of the KGB, covering the manipulation of Egyptian President Nasser; the attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro; the campaign to intimidate journalists and silence dissent within the Soviet Union: the assistance given to IRA Provisionals; the wide scale infiltration of American Installations to steal hundreds of secret documents; the attempt to take o…
A few days from now, a Conference of Foreign Ministers will be held in Manila to discuss the possibilities of a Treaty Organization for Southeasta Asia and the Southwest Pacific. The countries represented in this Conference are: Pakistan, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, France, Great Britain, the United States and the Philippines. What has brought these Govenments together in this Conference …
This book contains stone and bronze age monuments which were thoroughly studied by the author. All cultural objects and material art were obtained as a result of archaeological work through expeditions equipped with scientific excavation methods.