On the day of the meeting [September 4, 2001], Clarke sent Rice an impassioned personal note. He criticized U.S. counterterrorism efforts past and present. The 'real question' before the principals, he wrote, was 'are we serious about dealing with the al-Qida threat?...Is al-Qida a big deal?...Decision makers should imagine themselves on a future day when the CSG has not succeeded in stopping a…
This is a critical time for the relationship between Britain and Europe, as politicians debate the crisis facing the European Union and Britain's role within it. This second edition consists largely of new material that charts how recent political developments have changed the debate surrounding Britain's membership of the EU.
This book explains about historical background, criticism, recent developments, economic cooperation and others.
The author's duty as head of the Office of Legal Counsel was to advise President Bush what he could and could not do...legally. The author took the job in October 2003 and began to review the work of his predecessors. Their opinions were the legal framework governing the conduct of the military and intelligence agencies in the war on terror, and he found many—especially those regulating the t…
A profile which focuses on the continuities and discontinuities in the historical patterns of political economy in Zimbabwe. It is a portrait of a country that potentially may be the pride of Africa but may also be only another example of a country whose socialist vision has not come to fruition.
The book consists of 17 papers and is devided into two parts. Part I consists of 7 papers dealing with issues on international regimes and the emerging new international order. Part II presents 10 papers discussing issues on ASEAN's expansion of its membership seen from the economic and socio-political dimensions.
This book contains: 1. Inter-Arab relations in the post-peace era 2. Shifts in Inter-Arab power: Five periods 3. Ideological warfare in the 1950s and 1960s 4. The onset if pragmatism in Inter-Arab relations in 1970s 5. Fragmentation and renewed conflict in the 1980s 6. Deceptive stability, 1988-1990 7. The Gulf War and its aftermath 8. Options for the future 9. Continued dual containm…
The Downing Street Years is, first and foremost, a brilliant first-hand portrayal of the events and personalities of her years in power. She gives riveting accounts of the great and critical moments of her premiership the three election victories, the Falklands War, the Miners' Strike, the Brighton Bomb, the Westland Affair, her battles abroad with foreign federalists and at home with faint-hea…
Japan seeks economic competitiveness vis-a-vis the West and economic dominance in Asia, but it mainly competes through cooperative use of economic resources, which facilitates realization of the goals of partner nations. This book studies Japan's balance between the United States and East Asia by focusing on the use of economic power - defense spending, consumption, and investment - to advance …
This volume is the result of collaborative research between ASEAN and South Asian scholars and deals with economic relations between two important regions.