This collection of essays and speeches by Professor Tommy Koh were delivered and written in his capacity as the Executive Director of ASEF. It contains his thoughts on the three pillars of Asia-Europe relations: politics, economics, and civil society. Readers will find in this book his assessment of some of the key trends shaping the emerging world order and some crucial events affecting the tr…
In the years ahead Japan and the United States will face challenges to their interests and to their partnership in the Asian regional setting. How the two nations respond to changing conditions in the region will have significant consequences for other nations as well. The challenge is especially evident in Northeast Asia, where vital security interests of both nations are at stake and where ec…
Even before the terrorist networks are neutralized, the global coalition should confront the economic, political and cultural problems in the international arena that cry out for collective action.
This book is an account of the foreign policy of the United States, led by Henry Kissinger, during Richard Nixon's first term in the White House. It is also a story of a collaborative relationship that appears to be a series of diplomatic victories that can be reshaped. These were the years when China was reclaimed by American diplomacy; when the much-touted agreement on Strategic Arms Limitati…
There is at last a lucid, penetrating and comprehensive guidebook for U.S. policy in the Third World. And Richard Feinberg has written it. The Intemperate Zone displays encyclopedic knowledge at the command of a mind equally at home with strategic and moral issues. A gracefully written book for experts and amateurs alike
In this book, the authors review U.S. and international responses to self-determination claims during and after the Cold War. Arguing that outdated Cold War perspectives continue to influence the current policies of the United States and the international community toward self-determination movements, they provide a framework for evaluating the nature and legitimacy of self-determination moveme…
I had wanted to write a book about Australia in the twenty first century so as to write about the Australia I liked, or perhaps wanted. I hoped, too, that Australia would be more successful in the next century than it had managed to be in this one. The twentieth century had been America's, not just in the sense that the United States became a dominanta power during it but because the style of t…
Only the Drucker Foundation could bring together a peerless selection of leaders, best- selling authors, world-renowned consultants, and respected executives to share a vision of the future of leadership in these all new, never before published essays. The Leader of the Future is a compendium of new thought. It is a book about the future quality of our lives, our businesses, our organi- zations…
In how nato weakens the West, Krauss also makes the case that nato, which was tailored to post-world war II realities, is not only obsolete but counterproductive today in combating Soviet expansionism.
This book has long been in the making, although the actual writing has been done in the past year since my retirement as Philippine Foreign Minister. It is a result of a collaborative effort between my wife, Beth Day Romulo, and myself. We began thinking about the book and discussing what might be included in it as early as 1973, when we met in New York at the General Assembly. Back in Manila, …