This study of People's Action Party rule in Singapore was first published in 1984. The 1980s represented one of the most significant land marks in the modern history of Singapore. At the beginning of the decade, the founding fathers of Singapore, led by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, began the process of entrusting in creasing responsibility for governing Singapore to the second generation leader…
Books and articles on the subject of the formation of Malaysia abound. Some dwell on the significance and interpretations of event which have taken place. In the memoir, Ghazali Shafie's decided to chronicle the way these matters should be narrated. He felt he owed future generatios an obligation to put national historical matters in the perspective.
An overview of the nuclear era examines the confrontations, key decisions, and personalities involved with nuclear policy from the Roosevelt administration to Reagan's presidential terms.
Burma remains a land in deep crisis. The popular uprising of 1988 swept away 26 years of military rule under General Ne Win in name only. The National League for Democracy of Aung San Suu Kyi won a landslide victory in the 1990 election. But, as this book relates, the military remained in control and the future of Burma looks more problematic than ever. With unparalleled command of largely inac…
This volume revises a study done under a contract with the United States Department of Commerce: Bureaucratic Politics and Chinese Energy Development (Washington: Government Printing Office, August 1986). The Commerce Department felt that a deeper understanding of the bu- reaucratic structures and the policy processes of energy development in China would enable American firms to work more effec…
This book on political leadership in underdeveloped Africa and Asia as- sumes that a ruler's first desire is to retain his position at the apex of government while others press to displace him. THE RULER'S IMPERATIVE asks: Once positioned at the apex, what must a ruler do to remain in power and pursue more effectively the nation- building goals he sets for himself and his polity? How can he act…
This study is the result of a decision by Commonwealth Heads of Government at their 1983 Meeting in New Delhi. It was conceived in the framework of the Commonwealth's long-standing concern with the economic problems of its very many small member states. The 'vulnerability' of small states is the essential concept informing the enquiry and it is considered in Previous page.
When George W. Bush campaigned for the White House, he was such a novice in foreign policy that he couldn't name the president of Pakistan and momentarily suggested he thought the Taliban was a rock-and-roll band. But he relied upon a group called the Vulcans—an inner circle of advisers with a long, shared experience in government, dating back to the Nixon, Ford, Reagan and first Bush adminis…
For Fareed Zakaria, the great story of our times is ‘the rise of the rest’–the growth of countries like China, India, Brazil, Russia, South Africa and Kenya, which is generating a New global landscape. Global power is shifting, and wealth and innovation are bubbling up in unexpected places: the tallest buildings, biggest dams, top-selling movies and most advanced mobile phones are all bei…
Events since 11 September 2001 have dramatically altered the security environment in the Muslim world and in Southeast Asia in particular. With the uncovering of an extensive terrorist network in Southeast Asia, the region has emerged as a major battleground in the global war on terrorism. Yet the issues raised by political Islam in Southeast Asia are much broader than the problem of terrorism.…