This volume provides a comprehensive examination of the historical development of both regional and bilateral relations between Southeast Asia and New Zealand. Edited by Anthony L. Smith, the book explores political, strategic, and economic interactions that have shaped engagement between the two regions from early contact to the contemporary era. Through contributions from multiple scholars, i…
Our Zimbabwe: An Element of Political Economy offers an analytical overview of Zimbabwe’s economic and political structures in the years following independence. Arthur Jim Patsanza examines the nation’s development challenges, economic policies, and the relationship between political decision-making and economic outcomes. The book discusses issues such as state planning, resource distributi…
Development and Dependency examines the contrasting theories of economic development and dependency that have shaped global development discourse. The book analyzes how historical, political, and economic structures contribute to persistent inequalities between industrialized and developing nations. It explores concepts such as modernization, exploitation, peripheral economies, and the influenc…
Iraq: The Eternal Fire – 1972 Iraqi Oil Nationalization in Perspective examines one of the most significant turning points in Iraq’s modern economic and political history: the nationalization of its oil industry in 1972. The book analyzes the circumstances that led to the decision, including international pressures, domestic political shifts, and Iraq’s growing assertion of sovereignty ov…
From the extreme difficulties inherited by Indonesia's New Order Government in 1966, when inflation was running at over 600 percent annually and the nation could barely provide the basic necessities of life for its people, the Indonesian economy emerged remarkably transformed by the close of the country's first 25 Year Development Plan in 1993/1994
This book contains: 1. Economic crisis and growing intraregional tensions 2. The economic development of Central Asia in the 1990s 3. Basic problems of market transition in Central Asia 4. Adapting globalization 5. Foreign trade and investment 6. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan: The economic consequences of membership in the World Trade Organization 7. Central Asia and the Asian-Pacific Region…
This collection of papers is only a subset of a much larger body of papers, the result of a collaboration among about 50 scholars from the Asia Pacific region, which have been commissioned under the so-called "Quadrilateral Project." That project was jointly sponsored by the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley; the University of Tokyo, the Centre for Strategic an…
Another illusion-shattering piece from the man "The New York Times" called "arguably the most important intellectual alive". In 1970, about 90 per cent of international capital was used for trade and long-term investment - more or less productive things - and 10 per cent for speculation. By 1990, these figures had reversed. Haiti, a starving island, is exporting food to the US - about 35 times …
Spanning 20 years of history, the achievements of APEC may seem uneventful in the eyes of some observers. Yet careful deliberation will point to APEC's many remarkable high points as well as some of the challenges. The foundations of APEC were set in place about 40 years ago based on the achievements of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Pacific Economic Cooperation Coun…
In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order. Based on a s…