Drucker On Asia is the result of extensive dialogue between two of the world's leading business figures, Peter F Drucker and Isao Nakauchi. Their dialogue considers the changes occuring in the economic world today and identifies the challenges that free markets and free enterprises now face with specific reference to China and Japan. * What do these economic changes mean for an individual count…
The history of the Middle East since World War I is a recapitulation of blunders blunders which caused and prolonged the turmoil and bloodshed of the past 60 years, blunders by the great powers, by the Arabs and the Jews. The Sinai Blunder deals with the events that led to a disastrous Arab defeat in 1967, left Israel in occupation of Arab lands, and started yet another cycle of violence and ar…
This book was written by me in Ahmadnagar Fort prison during the five months, April to September, 1944. Some of my colleagues in prison were good enough to read the manuscript and make a number of valuable suggestions. On revising the book in prison 1 took advantage of these suggestions and made some additions. No one, I need hardly add, is responsible for what I have written or necessarily agr…
A great deal has happened in the USSR, much of it a direct result of Mikhail Gorbachev's selection as general secretary in March 1985. New political terms have been introduced, and Sovietologists have been hard at work trying to give meaning to what has been taking place within Soviet society.
The Rockefeller dynasty has been a scape-goat for America's ills throughout the twentieth century. It has also been revered as the source of the widest-ranging system of philanthropy the world has ever known. Above all, it has symbolized the almighty power of the ethic of hard work.
Here is a country that is about one-fourth the area of Europe, one-third the size of the United States of America, yet what is known about it is out of all proportion to what is unknown. We are beginning to know more, comparatively speaking, about the Arctic and Antarctic regions than we do about most of Arabia.
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation is a new field of study in international relations. Found in 1985, the organization itself is just a decade old, quite a short period of time in the context of the millennial history of the Indian subcontinent. An association of seven countries of the region, viz, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, it cuts acr…
This volume comprises three essays on the city of Malacca and its society, during the first decades of Portuguese rule, when the social structures inherited from the Sultanate days were yet to undergo major changes.
Saudi Arabia: A case study in development is a completely revised and updated edition that includes new sections namely, Focus on Achieving the Three Five Year Plan, Strategy Five Fourth Ventilation Plan - National Industry - Efforts and Evaluation, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) Policies and Projects, Higher education, Oil Pricing, New Ministry Organizational Chart.
When President Clinton sent Richard Holbrooke to Bosnia as America's chief negotiotor in late 1995, he book a gamble that would eventually redefine his presidency. But there was no saying then, at the height of the war, that Holbrooke's mission would succeed. The odds were strongly against it.