Since 1983, the mission of the U.S. Army Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis (OEMA) has been to provide a sound basis for policy and planning for the Army of the future. Founded by General Maxwell Thurman, this Headquarters Department of the Army (HQDA) asset is nested within the U.S. Military Academy's Department of Social Sciences. The intellectual freedom and community-of-practice provi…
Do you know in Brunei we used to have a festival called 'Berjanawari'? Or that the Brunei word for great-great-great grandparents is the same as the action describing shaking your head? Or that Brunei's largest export used to be derived from mangrove trees? Or that 'Hua Hui' a gambling game was widely played in Brunei? Or the many facts that you have never known about Brunei? This is the second…
Public Relations (PR) Politik merupakan bauran (mix) bidang keilmuan dari keilmuan public relations yang berada di ranah keilmuan komunikasi dan politik, bagian dari kajian ilmu politik. Public Relations sesungguhnya merupakan aktivitas yang dibutuhkan oleh seluruh organisasi, bak komersial maupun nonkomersial. PR sejatinya merupakan aktivitas komunikasi untuk membangun good will (niat baik) da…
While absorbing the new culture, diaspora maintain their old tradition and love towards their home country, and become so prominent in so many fields. Despite their desire to contribute to Indonesia's progress, they are still under-represented politically. The merging of their votes in Jakarta District brings subsequent impact on the channeling their interests. The main focus of this study i…
This report was prepared for UNCTAD by William Kovacic, Commissioner, United States Federal Trade Commission, and David Lewis, Gordon Institute of Business Science, former Chairman of the South African Competition Tribunal. The substantive backstopping and review of the report was the responsibility of Ulla Schwager. Carl Buik provided valuable feedback. UNCTAD would like to acknowledge the val…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…