CATATAN tentang kehidupan budaya, agama, dan politik di Indonesia sebagaimana yang dilihat lewat kacamata Stanley Harsha, seorang mantan diplomat Amerika Serikat yang terlibat "love affair" dengan Indonesia selama hampir 30 tahun. Menunjukkan keluasan wawasan penulis soal budaya Nusantara yang beragam, termasuk wawasan tentang etika dan adat perkawinan Jawa yang ia dapat dari calon mertua. S…
The Gardens of Democracy provides a refreshing new conceptual approach to understanding our economic and political situation, and it will help us move past the fossilized ideas in today's public debates.
With this new seventh edition of Classic of Public Administration, authors Jay M. Shafritz and Albert C. Hyde aim to introduce students to the principles of public administration via the most significant scholarly writings on the topic. Straight forward and informative, this text begins its discussion with Woodrow Wilson and continues to today's political scientists. A new Section V, "Public Ad…
Born in 1923, Singapore's former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew has spent a lifetime being intimately involved in international affairs. He has met every major Chinese leader from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping and hobnobbed with American presidents from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama. In this book, Lee draws on that wealth of experience and depth of insight to offer his views on today's world and what …
Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era advising presidents, traveling the world, observing and shaping the central foreign policy events of recent decades Kissinger now reveals his analysis of the ultimate challenge for the twenty first century…
From ancient and medieval philosophers such as Confucius and Thomas Aquinas, to revolutionary thought leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and Leon Trotsky, to the voices who have shaped modern politics today Mao Zedong, Malcolm X, Che Guevara, and more. The Politics Book clearly and simply explains more than 100 groundbreaking ideas in the history of political thought. With easy to follow graphics…
"Citizen Lobbyists" explores how U.S. citizens participate in local government. Although many commentators have lamented the apathy of the American citizenry, Brian Adams focuses on what makes ordinary Americans become involved in and attempt to influence public policy issues that concern them. It connects theory and empirical data in a new and revealing way, providing both a thorough review of…
The European Union (EU) poses quite profound questions for scholars and students of the social and political sciences. This benchmark Handbook is designed to: Provide an authoritative state-of-the art guide to the scope of the field suitable for both established scholars and students of the EU Reflect and contribute to the debates about the nature of the field of EU studies and EU politics …