Pada abad 19, Betawi-Weltevreden dipromosikan dengan sebutan: Queen of the East (Ratu dari Timur). Saat itu Betawi mengalami transfusi yang cukup besar dari para pendatang Eropa. Serdadu dan pedagang dari abad 19 ini jauh berbeda dari rekan-rekan mereka di abad 17. Mereka lebih santun dan terhormat ketimbang serdadu dan petani yang didatangkan JP Coen dua abad sebelumnya. Di sekitar Weltevreden…
This book is a significant study of Indonesia's achievement of independence from the Netherlands immediately following World War II. It places the military and diplomatic struggle between the Indonesians and the Dutch within the international context of the period, so that the conflicting pressures on the two parties as they sought an acceptable, realistic, and workable agreement are made much …
Buku ini berisi tentang latar belakang pelaku-pelaku kunci dalam tragedi sejarah 1965 yang terlibat dalam gerakan 30 September. Selain Letkol. Untung, masih ada sosok Sjam Kamaruzzaman yang misterius. Kemudian Lettu. Doel Arief, yang juga tidak jelas nasibnya. Dan tentu saja Aidit, yang ditembak mati sesaat setelah tertangkap di Boyolali oleh pasukan Kolonel Yasir Hadibroto.
In this collection of statements, interviews and personal profiles of Dr. Chien, much of it translated from the original Chinese, the reader will have a comprehensive view of the R.O.C.'s latest diplomatic moves and a portent of its future international role. So, too, this work presents authentic insights into the character and persona of Fredrick Chien, the person as well as the statesman of v…
An overview of the nuclear era examines the confrontations, key decisions, and personalities involved with nuclear policy from the Roosevelt administration to Reagan's presidential terms.
The objective of the Australia-Indonesia Development Area (AIDA) concept is to develop closer economic relations within the AIDA region through improving the enabling environment for private sector trade and investment. A key strength of the AIDA concept lies in the essential complementarity of the Australian and AIDA region of Indonesia economies, for example between Australian technology and …
Drawing on hundreds of previously classified documents, scores of interviews, and his own experience, James Mann, former Los Angeles Times Beijing bureau chief, presents the fascinating inside story of contemporary U.S.-China relations. President Nixon and Secretary of State Kissinger began their diplomacy with China in an attempt to find a way out of Vietnam. The remaining Cold War presidents…
Fifty years of New Zealand foreign policy-making based on New Zealand foreign relations in the twentieth century, an overview of factors, policy relationships and policy focus.
The Continuing Crisis is a successor to the widely-used 1984 anthology Crisis and Opportunity. Nearly three-fourths of the essays are new. In addition to analyses from Foreign Affairs, the New Republic, the New York Review of Books, and other prestigious journals, this volume contains the most significant original documents and official statements on the Central American crisis. Each essay is p…
Burma remains a land in deep crisis. The popular uprising of 1988 swept away 26 years of military rule under General Ne Win in name only. The National League for Democracy of Aung San Suu Kyi won a landslide victory in the 1990 election. But, as this book relates, the military remained in control and the future of Burma looks more problematic than ever. With unparalleled command of largely inac…