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A Fragile Nation
World Scientific Publishing Company 1999; US$ 23.40In May 1998, President Suharto stepped down as President of Indonesia. With his fall, the third largest country in Asia has plunged into anarchy and political, economic and social strife. Racial and religious clashes, culminating in riots, burning and chaos, have become the order of the day. Fissures in the social fabric are widening and there is... more...
Conflicts in the Middle East since 1945
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 22.95Conflicts in the Middle East analyses the nature of conflict in the Middle East, with its racial, ethnic, political, cultural, religious studies and economic factors. more...
Building Regional Security in the Middle East
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 70.00Discussions on regional security were initiated in the Middle East in 1992, as part of the Middle East peace process. The collapse of the Oslo process and other regional developments in the latter half of the 1990s have diminished hopes that the initial gains made in this direction might further develop, as violence has again become the primary mode... more...
Indonesian Sea Nomads
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 195.00The Orang Suku Laut consider themselves indigenous Malays. Yet their interaction with others who call themselves Malays is characterised on both sides by fear of harmful magic and witchcraft. The nomadic Orang Suku Laut believe that the Qur'an contains elements of black magic, while the settled Malays consider the nomads dangerous, dirty and backward.... more...
The United States, Europe, and the Wider Middle East
RAND Corporation 2005; US$ 9.95These proceedings present an informal discussion among a group of experts who explored a set of five topics: the insurgency in Iraq, the Arab-Israeli situation, the terrorist threat, internal security in Saudi Arabia, and Iran and the proliferation of WMD. more...
Greater Syria
Oxford University Press 1992; US$ 50.00While for many years scholars and journalists have focused on the more obvious manifestations of political life in the Middle East, one major theme has been consistently neglected. This is Pan-Syrian nationalism--the dream of creating a Greater Syria out of an area now governed by Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and Turkey. Though not nearly as well... more...
Japan and the Contemporary Middle East
Taylor and Francis 1993; US$ 195.00Japan is an economic power of global significance; it is also the world's largest single national importer of oil. These two facts alone are sufficient to indicate the significance of Japan's relationship with the Middle East. But in fact, Japan's particularly strong interests in the Middle East extend well beyond oil, and include banking, investment,... more...
A Companion to the History of the Middle East
Wiley 2008; US$ 213.95A Companion to the History of the Middle East offers a fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of this region. A fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of the Middle East Comprises 26 newly-commissioned essays by leading international scholars Primarily focused on the modern and contemporary periods ... more...
A History of Modern Indonesia
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 26.00Adrian Vickers takes the reader on a journey across the social and political landscape of modern Indonesia, a relatively unfamiliar and understudied country. He starts with Indonesia's origins under the Dutch in the early twentieth century, and concludes with the fall of Suharto's New Order after thirty two years in power, and the subsequent turmoil... more...
The Changing World of Bali
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 49.95The glossy guide book image of Bali is of a timeless paradise whose people are devoutly religious and artistically gifted. However, a hundred years of colonialism, war and Indonesian independence, and tourism have produced both modernizing changes and created an image of Bali as ?traditional?. Incorporating up-to-date ethnographic field work... more...









