The art of intelligence lessons from a life in the CIA's Clandestine Service

A counterterrorism spy describes his leadership of the campaign that routed al Qaeda and the Taliban in the weeks after the September 11 attacks, offering insight into the ways in which the Afghanistan campaign changed American warfare.

Swiss made

Why has Switzerland - a tiny, land-locked country with few natural advantages - become so successful for so long at so many things? In banking, pharmaceuticals, machinery, even textiles, Swiss companies rank alongside the biggest and most powerful global competitors. How did they get there? How do they continue to refresh themselves? Does the Swiss 'Sonderfall' (special case) provide lessons ot…

Quo vadis Papua

Buku ini hadir sebagai sumber data dan informasi penting yang valid tentang Papua dalam segala keunggulannya maupun permasalahannya. Tujuan yang sangat penting serta mendasar dari buku ini adalah untuk memberi masukan kepada pemerintah (Pusat maupun Daerah), segenap stakeholders dan orang Papua agar semua pihak dapat ikut membantu dalam mencari solusi komprehensif yang tepat dan benar bagi peny…

Legitimacy crisis in Thailand

The book brings together essays by Thai specialists as well as Western scholars on pivotal topics connected to Thailand's current legitimacy crisis. It begins with a lively narrative of major events and in subsequent chapters covers the politicization of the Khao Phra Wihan (Preah Vihear) temple issue. The People's Alliance for Democracy and its "New Politics". The politicization of the Thai me…

Rice of the Vulcans: The history of bush's war cabinet

When George W. Bush campaigned for the White House, he was such a novice in foreign policy that he couldn't name the president of Pakistan and momentarily suggested he thought the Taliban was a rock-and-roll band. But he relied upon a group called the Vulcans—an inner circle of advisers with a long, shared experience in government, dating back to the Nixon, Ford, Reagan and first Bush adminis…

The Post-American World

For Fareed Zakaria, the great story of our times is ‘the rise of the rest’–the growth of countries like China, India, Brazil, Russia, South Africa and Kenya, which is generating a New global landscape. Global power is shifting, and wealth and innovation are bubbling up in unexpected places: the tallest buildings, biggest dams, top-selling movies and most advanced mobile phones are all bei…

Toward a stronger US-indonesia security relationship

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America's role in Asia: Asian views

In the post-Cold War world, U.S. Asian relations remain central to U.S. policy. Fault lines in the Taiwan Straits and on the Korean peninsula require the daily vigilance of U.S. and Asian policymakers. Asia's continued recovery from the 1997 financial crisis depends in part upon the health of the American economy. And as domestic political change accelerates across Asia, relations must be recal…

Indonesia; Malaysia-Singapore; Philippines

The Foreign Relations of the United States series presents the official documentary historical record of major foreign policy decisions an significant diplomatic activity of the United States Government.

Non-traditional security issues: In South East Asia

The regional economic crisis of 1997 greatly affected Southeast Asia, with Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia grappling with economic and currencies. In Indonesia, in particular, the consequences of the crisis have been far-reaching and traumatic. Indeed, the aftermath of the crisis has placed into focus such issues as the impact of globalisation on security, the subject of gover…