The major policy debate touched off by President Reagan's March 1983 speech announcing the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was the reopening of one that had begun 35 years before. Then and now the ultimate question is what kind of strategic posture is most likely to contribute to mutual strategic stability? The answer is central to national survival and has profound ethical implications. A s…
Indonesia' struggle for independence was an early test of Australia's capacity to respond positively to change in Asia. After the Second World War Australia's 'near nort' was transformed as Asian nations broke free from European empires. In the Netherlands East Indies Indonesian nationalis encounred strong opposition. In December 1948 Dutch military forces launched a second military offensive a…
A unique and very welcome addition to the literature on ethnic and civil wars. The book combines comprehensive, global coverage with a problem-solving focus and sophis ticated scholarly insights. Timely regional surveys are matched with timeless essays on fundamental issues of conflict prevention and management"-Professor Jack Snyder. Director. Institute of War and Peace Studies.
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In this third happy alliance between author and publisher, I am again greatly indebted to the sympathetic and sustaining staff at Lexington books.
This book contains the relationship between American diplomacy and military policy and global strategy. The book's five sections cover the broad lines of America's strategy and the relation between force and diplomacy; the home base for our foreign policy: our relations with the free world's more advanced nations and our efforts to build a global partner- ship which will supplant the postwar re…
Globalisasi menyebabkan dunia semakin terkoneksi berkat revolusi informasi dan komunikasi. Namun, globalisasi juga mengakibatkan ketidakseimbangan kompetisi antara yang lemah dan yang kuat. Stiglitz mengemukakan cara-cara baru yang radikal untuk mengatasi utang negara berkembang, menyarankan sistem baru cadangan global untuk mengatasi ketidakstabilan keuangan internasional, dan memberikan usula…
This book is the second in a series Issues in Southeast Asian Security and deals with armed separatism in Southeast Asia. The situation differs markedly in the several countries studied. Besides the analyses of the politics of separatism and its military aspects, the questions of development, of culture and ethnicity are centrally relevant to the growth of separatist tendencies. All these are e…
This book is a generalitation from the whole span of modern history. It gives an account of economic growth, based on a dynamic theory of production and interpreted in terms of actual societies. It helps to explain historical changes and to predict major political and economic trends: and it provides the significant links between economic and non-economic behavior which Karl Marx failed to discern
The Asia Pacific Security Outlook seeks to contribute to this search by monitoring perceptions of threats to national security, national defense doctrines and issues, and national contributions to regional and global security. It differs from other current annual security overviews in that it has been developed on the basis of background papers prepared by analysts from the region itself, each …