President Kennedy's former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and co-author Blight offer suggestions as to how the United States could and should change its foreign policy and defense policy to incorporate the core objectives of post-WWI Wilsonian ideals. They suggest that the United States make the end of war a major goal of foreign policy and argue that while the U.S. will have to provide l…
This book containing history of the forces driving the American economy to boom in the 1990s and collapse in 2000.
Indonesia and the United States, Shared Interests in Maritime Security by Bronson Percival analyzes the threats posed by terrorists to the strategic waterways that pass near and through the Indonesian archipelago. This trenchant review focuses on Indonesian organization and capabilities in the maritime sector.
Globalization today is not working. It is not working for many of the world's poor. It is not working for much of the environment. It is not working for the stability of the global economy. It is Stiglitz's extraordinary authority and experience that make this book so compelling. Stiglitz admits, 'It is the trade unionists, students, environmentalists and ordinary citizens marching in the stree…
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The cold war period is one that has been unique in the development of international relations and the main feature that dominated the politics at this time was the polarisation of groups on the basis of ideology. When one looks at the various kinds of conflicts which emerged during this period it is evident that the ideological factors were deeply grounded and there was a clear divide between t…
The regional conference on Identifying Challenges and Opportunities in the (South) West Pacific Region involving distinguished speakers from Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Thailand and East Timor on 12-13 June 2001. Ever since, we have gone from one tragedy to another. The collapse of the Twin Tower, the global coalition against terrorism, continuing war in Ce…
In recent years, the world order has been rocked by an explosive, unexpected and extraordinary phenomenon: political Islam. Beginning in the early 1970s, militants revolted against the regimes in power across the Muslim world and exacerbated political conflicts internationally. Their jihad-or 'Holy Struggle - aimed to establish a global Islamic state based solely on a strict interpretation of t…
"Democratic Transitions in Asia" focuses on political changes in the Asian region. Since the 1997 economic crisis, countries of the region are seeing greater demands for the accountability of leaders. Symbolic of the region's continuing struggle for democratisation, the President of South Korea, Kim Dae Jung was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000, joining other recent Asian Nobel laureates, …
This sharp and authoritative account of American foreign relations analyzes the last 15 years of foreign policy, since the end of the Cold War, in relation to the last 40 years. In 1989, the US emerged as victor from the Cold War struggle. But what did victory mean? In the US, commentators were divided in their views: some feared their nation's eclipse by more successful trading powers or blo…