The first comprehensive and systematic analysis of American and Soviet security cooperation since World War II, this volume expertly examines the pursuit of arms control, the search for stability, and the balance of power between the two countries. The twenty-one case studies, each commissioned from a highly qualified specialist on the subject in question, probe a wide range of global, regional…
This stimulating book calls attention to the growth of an inefficient superlayer in the economies of South-East Asia and invites the reader to think about the problems this poses to economic development in the future. The author argues that technological backwardness, the low quality of government intervention, and discrimination against those pf Chinese descent have prevented capitalism from s…
This book discusses the pattern of change and conditions in Russia after Stalin. Then it also explains Russia during the Gorbachev era. The evolution of US policy goals and western influence on the Soviet Union.
Waltzing with a Dictator is the startling story of America's twenty-year partnership with the conjugal dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda. Based on 12,000 pages of previously classified U.S. documents, Raymond Bonner's account contains never-before-told details of the incredible lifestyle of Imelda Marcos; of the imprisonment and assassination of Genigno S. Aquino; of the Mar…
This text provides an examination of one of the most controversial issues in Asia today - how the region reconciles its homegrown values with the conflicting and often Western values of modernization, globalization and economic development. In a series of chapters, each devoted to a country, the book explores just what "Asian values" - a highly charged term in modern Asia - means to the individ…
War is no longer rational, we say, yet the response to our mistrust of one another is more lethal weapons. And then to loudly proclaim that we never plan to use them. It is no wonder that this is the anxious age and that we want an ethic-an ethic for survival.
Pada mulanya nama domain (domain name) digunakan hanya untuk mengindentifikasi komputer. Penggunaannya kemudian menjadi lebih intensif dan nama domain menjadi bagian dari identitas seseorang (seperti misalnya alamat email atau alamat situs web). Nama domain dalam internet secara sederhana dapat diumpamakan seperti nomor telepon atau sebuah alamat. Dalam dokumen yang dikeluarkan oleh World Intel…
The bulky Volksraad material contains a wealth of information on political, social and economic matters, including speeches by Eurasians representatives and the Dutch and/or Indonesian reactions to them.
Buku ini mengupas tentang peran media dalam integrasi sosial yang masih tergolong langka. Isi dalam buku ini merupakan hasil penelitian dan pengamatan terkait peran media dalam mewujudkan kohesi sosial di tengah meningkatnya ketegangan antar umat beragama. Buku ini diterbitkan untuk menerima dan menghormati eksistensi kelompok lain yang berbeda dan bekerjasama dengan mereka dalam semangat persa…
This book tells the history of America's experience in the Middle East over the past sixty years. This book contains the stories of ten presidents and their administrations and their ways of dealing with the region, their leaders, and their ideas for solving these problems.