Kemelut Demokrasi Liberal: Surat-surat Rahasia Boyd R. Compton mengungkap dinamika dan ketegangan politik Indonesia pada era Demokrasi Liberal (1950–1959) melalui kumpulan korespondensi pribadi Boyd R. Compton. Surat-surat ini memberikan sudut pandang internal mengenai pergolakan politik, konflik antarpartai, problem kabinet yang silih berganti, serta tantangan dalam membangun stabilitas peme…
In light of the recent demise of the Soviet Union and the subsequent withdrawal of Soviet forces from Central Europe, the debate between neoliberal institutionalism and neorealism has taken on a new relevance. Neorealism and Neoliberalism concentrates on issues of conflict and cooperation with their implications for post-Cold War international relations. Essays by some of today's most promin…
This account tells the story of the Liberal Party of Australia from its formation in October 1944 to 1994. It is a history book, but also an autobiographical account of the individuals who made the Liberal Party - Robert Menzies, Elizabeth Couchman, Paul Hasluck, Garfield Barwick and Malcolm Fraser. It is the story of success and failure at both national and state levels, and an analysis of the…
Liberalism in America is under siege. Conservatives now treat it as an epithet and even some progressives spurn it. But according to Paul Starr, liberalism is a sturdy public philosophy, deeply rooted in our traditions, capable of making America and the world more free and secure. Freedom's Power shows why liberalism works - and how it can work for America again
Buku ini mengulas evolusi sebuah ideologi. Dalam buku ini Shapiro menunjukkan mengapa bahasa tertentu tentang hak-hak ekonomi, sosial, dan politik menjadi penting bagi tradisi liberal Barat pada sekitar masa Perang Saudara di Inggris; bagaimana bahasa ini sejak saat itu berkembang dalam tradisi tersebut; dan dari segi-segi apa bahasa itu memengaruhi, membentuk, dan membatasi argumen-argumen ten…
Buku ini merupakan kompilasi surat-surat rahasia Compton yang ditulisnya selama masa lima puluhan, di mana merupakan masa "optimisme" bagi proses perwu-judan "demokrasi" di negeri ini. Pada masa itulah berbagai konflik internal, selain dalam rangka penyempurnaan konstruksi pemerintahan negara baru ini berlangsung, juga sewajarnya dilihat dalam perspektit rasa tanggung jawab akan nasib perkemban…
One of our most brilliant public intellectuals, Paul Berman has spent his career writing on revolutionary movements and their totalitarian aspects. Here he argues that, in the terror war, we are not facing a battle of the West against Islam—a clash of civilizations. We are facing, instead, the same battle that tore apart Europe during most of the twentieth century, only in a new version. It i…
This book provided about Uruguay round of multilateral trade negotiations under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is the first in the long history of trade negotiations in GATT in which negotiations on agriculture have been given a central role.
This book focuses on the experiences of foreign economic liberalization in countries that differ in size, resource endowment, level of development, and political conditions. It combines theories of economic liberalization with a wide variety of case studies from market and socialist economies.
This is an assessment of the transformation that took place in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The book addresses two central questions: how is the state socialist system of party monopoly and centralized planning dissolving? And how do these societies recreate the communist opposite - civil society and free markets? The contributors attribute the collapse of state socialism to ideological…