It is an Indonesian custom that, on a significant birthday year, friends contribute essays to a collection to honor the celebrant. We are pleased to follow this custom in observing the tenth anniversary of The United States-Indonesia Society.
This survey began some years ago and two reports set out the views of earlier Committees: Australia's relations with the South Pacific, tabled on 13 April 1989, and Australia's relations with Papua New Guinea, tabled on 19 December 1991.This inquiry had its origins in concerns about illegal fishing off the north and north west coast of Australia, but the terms of reference actually adopted were…
This is the first sourcebook to present a wide selection of contemporary materials on Islam in Southeast Asia, most of which have not previously been available in English. The material covers six broad themes: personal expressions of faith; Islamic law; state and governance; women and family; jihad; and interactions with non-Muslims and the wider Muslim world. The book looks at the ideological …
The international community faces no more critical issue than how to protect people caught in new and large-scale humanitarian crises - humanitarian intervention has been controversial both when it has happened, as in Kosovo, and when it has failed to happen, as in Rwanda. While there is general agreement internationally that we should not stand by in the face of massive violations of human rig…
Can Asians think? Are we at the end of the Western epoch? Is Western civilisation universal? Does the West promote human rights for altruistic reasons? Is Japan adrift? Why has Southeast Asia not become the Balkans of Asia? These are some of the questions Kishore Mahbubani has sought to answer in his personal ruminations over the years. This volume of essays and speeches brings together for the…
Living with Dragons is a dispatch from the front-line of Australia's engagement with Asia. It reveals for the first time just what a transforming and pervasive development the 'Asianisation' of Australian life is. Living with Dragons tackles all the hard questions. Australian identity, human rights, economic policy, the environment, defence and security, culture, the business challenge, languag…
A former National Security Advisor offers a chilling portrait of six terrifying scenarios that threaten the safety and security of the United States, including the rise of global terrorism and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and describes why and why not the American government is prepared to meet such potential threats. 20,000 first printing.
This is a book about people. It is not a book of opinion. It is a book of stories. The stories were collected during five months of travel in 1995 in four non-Arab Muslim countries-Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia. So there is a context and a theme.
In this indictment of the president and his inner circle, David Corn reveals and examines the deceptions at the heart of the Bush presidency. He details and substantiates the many times the Bush administration has knowingly and intentionally misled the American public to advance its own interests and agenda." "The Lies of George W. Bush is not a partisan whine - it is instead a carefully constr…