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…
In the months leading up to March 2003, fresh from its swift and heady victory in Afghanistan, the Bush administration mobilized the United States armed forces to overthrow the government of Iraq. Eight months after the president declared an end to major combat operations, Saddam Hussein was captured in a farmhouse in Al-Dawr. And yet neither peace nor democracy has taken hold in Iraq; instead …
Southeast Asian Affairs 2006 provides an informed and readable analysis of the events and developments in the region in 2005. The first four articles present the political and economic overview of the region, a nuanced analysis on terrorism, and the role of Japan in East Asian community-building efforts. Eleven country reviews as well as five special theme articles follow, delving into domestic…
The Singapore Lecture is designed to provide the opportunity for distinguished statesmen, scholars, and writers and other similarly highly qualified individuals specializing in banking, commerce, international economics and finance, and philosophical and world strategic affairs to visit Singapore. The presence of such eminent personalities will allow Singaporeans, especially the younger executi…