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Sailing In Waves
Dapat dikatakan sebagai salah satu tonggam penting perjalanan Bangsa Indonesia, Poros Maritim Dunia merupakan kelanjutan ide Negara Kepulauan (archipelagic state) yang diakui PBB melalui United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Pada praktiknya, perjuangan mewujudkan Poros Maritim Dunia menjumpai banyak tantangan. Indonesia pertama kali perlu mengembalikan laut sebagai indentitas nasional yang kini banyak dilupakan. Dalam waktu yang lama, bukan saja kedaulatan Indonesia yang dilanggar, tetapi juga kekayaan laut yang dicuri oleh kapal-kapal asing. Tantangan berikutnya, pembangunan pelabuhan dan kapal-kapal yang memadai. Masalah yang tidak kurang pentingnya adalah sumberdaya manusia serta sinkronisasi kebijakan pusat dan daerah dalam pengembangan Poros Maritim Dunia. Pencanangan Poros Maritim Dunia merupakan titik tolak kesadaran baru, karena berhasil membuka kembali mata kita akan kekayaan negeri yang terbengkalai, serta kebanggaan sebagai Negara Bahari. Terlepas dari berbagai kritik, Poros Maritim Dunia perlu terus dikembangkan, sehingga potensi laut dapat dimanfaatkan semaksimal mungkin untuk kemajuan dan kesejahteraan rakyat Indonesia
Gastrodiplomasi Indonesia
Setiap negara berusaha menghubungkan kulinernya dengan identitas nasional masing-masing, tak terkecuali Indonesia. Namun, berbeda dengan negara lainnya, Indonesia memiliki nilai lebih atau 'bonus' karena keberagaman suku yang menyebar ke seluruh penjuru negeri, secara otomatis melahirkan budaya yang beragam pula, termasuk kuliner sebagai salah satu elemennya. Dengan kekayaan kulinernya tersebut, Indonesia sangat mampu dalam hal gastrodiplomasi, yakni menjadikan kuliner sebagai sarana untuk mengenalkan budaya suatu negara ke dunia internasional. Bahkan, perjalanan gastrodiplomasi Indonesia sejatinya telah bermula sejak era kepemimpinan Presiden Soekarno, dan terus mengalami peningkatan yang s...
Ben Ali, Mubarak, Khadafy
Ini adalah kisah kemarahan rakyat atas pemimpin negerinya yang terlalu lama berkuasa. Kekuasaan yang digunakan untuk kepentingan keluarga dan kroni-kroninya pada akhirnya menuai bencana. Rezim-rezim dictator dilawanoleh gerakan rakyat secara massif. Ben Ali dari Tunisia telah terguling. Kemudian Husni Mubarak di Mesir juga Tumbang. Saat buku ini ditulis, Khadafi dari Libya juga sedang diguncang kekuasaannya oleh rakyatnya. Pelajaran politik berharga yang harus diketahui oleh generasi muda Indonesia.
China Dream: Still Coming True?
At a time when the economic transition in China is casting shadows on the weak world recovery, and the country is further increasing military spending at double-digit rates, it is key to assess how far President Xi has gone in fulfilling the “China Dream” of ascendance to cultural, economic and military power. Even more important is to try to figure out what the substance of the “China Dream” is likely to be in the near future. The current risk is that the Chinese people and the Chinese government are dreaming different dreams, and that Xi’s “China Dream” might be more a dream for the country and much less so for the people. China has recently reached a series of symbolic milestones: the Yuan’s inclusion in the IMF’s SDR basket; the new China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB); the market economy status by a number of countries. The 2016 Chinese G20 Presidency will provide a timely occasion for China to better define its role in global economic governance. However, progress on reforms is lagging behind expectations and international tensions are on the rise. This volume explores the viability of the China Dream and analyzes its major challenges.
Humanitarian Diplomacy
Humanitarian professionals are on the front lines of today's internal armed conflicts, working with politicians and diplomats in countries wracked by violence, in capitals of donor governments that underwrite humanitarian work, as well as within the United Nations Security Council and providing information to the media. This publication sets out a compendium of essays written by 14 senior humanitarian practitioners who led humanitarian operations in settings as diverse as the Balkans and Nepal, Somalia and East Timor, and across a time frame from the 1970s in Cambodia and 1980s in Lebanon to more recent engagement in Colombia and Iraq.
Ideology and International Institutions
Can international institutions help create more cooperative and peaceful relations between states? If so, how? And what motivates states to create meaningful institutions in the first place? Though theorists and researchers have approached these questions from different schools of thought, the commonality among them is that institutions are apolitical and their purpose is to assure common gains or develop shared social norms and identities. Institutions succeed if they rise above petty power politics and fail when they succumb to political confrontations. In this book, Erik Voeten offers a new broader understanding of international institutions. Current theories offer conflicting portraits o...
Handbook of India's International Relations
This Handbook gives an overview of India’s international relations, given the development of India as a major economic power in the world, and the growing interest in the impact of Asia on the international system in the future. Edited by David Scott of Brunel University, and with chapters written by a variety of experts, the Handbook of India’s International Relations offers an up-to-date, unbiased and comprehensive resource to academics, students of international relations, business people, media professionals and the general reader. There is a pre-publication price on this title, the price rises to £150 three months after publication.
Growth in East Asia
This paper examines the different arguments raised by the studies that addressed the East Asian growth experience. The original arguments presented in this paper are all on the negative side, highlighting problems associated with some of the possible explanations for the East Asian miracle. The paper concentrates mainly on four dimensions of the debate about the East Asian growth experience: (i) The nature of economic growth intensive or extensive?; (ii) The role of public policy and of selective interventions; (iii) The role of high investment rates and a strong export orientation as possible engines of growth; and (iv) The importance of the initial conditions and their relevance for policy.
The Quest to Cyber Superiority
This book explains how major world economies are recognizing the need for a major push in cyber policy environments. It helps readers understand why these nations are committing substantial resources to cybersecurity, and to the development of standards, rules and guidelines in order to address cyber-threats and catch up with global trends and technological developments. A key focus is on specific countries’ engagement in cyberattacks and the development of cyber-warfare capabilities. Further, the book demonstrates how a nation’s technological advancement may not necessarily lead to cyber-superiority. It covers cybersecurity issues with regard to conflicts that shape relationships betwee...
The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945
With this book the editors complete the three-volume series on modern Japanese colonialism and imperialism that began with The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945 (Princeton, 1983) and The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937 (Princeton, 1989). The Japanese military takeover in Manchuria between 1931 and 1932 was a critical turning point in East Asian history. It marked the first surge of Japanese aggression beyond the boundaries of its older colonial empire and set Japan on a collision course with China and Western colonial powers from 1937 through 1945. These essays seek to illuminate some of the more significant processes and institutions during the period when the empire was at w...
