This is a dangerous time—the international system is teetering, jolted by a raging pandemic, climate change, income inequality, cyber threats, terrorism, authoritarian regimes, nationalist demagogues, and frightened and impatient publics. But the career and hard-earned wisdom of famed diplomat, Jan Eliasson, offers warnings, guidance, and hope.The Education of a Statesmanexamines Eliasson’s…
This unique text is an accessible and practical guide addressing legal and related issues stemming from the deprivation of liberty of children and young people. It provides a roadmap to the deprivation of liberty of children and young people, from initially identifying that a child or young person may be deprived of their liberty or that a deprivation of liberty may be required, through to tak…
Understanding the greatest catastrophic failure of American Government.In 2022, Ira Shapiro completed what Brooking scholar William A. Galston called “an epic trilogy” chronicling the disastrous decline of the once-great Senate. The Founding Fathers gave the Senate many functions, but it had one overriding responsibility: to provide a check against a dangerous president who threatened our d…
Kisah insider tentang strategi pemerintah AS melawan krisis fentanyl, kartel Meksiko, dan upaya menurunkan kematian massal akibat opioid.
Sejarah dan peran Endangered Species Act dalam krisis biologis global, serta panggilan aksi untuk konservasi bipartisan yang efektif.
Africa is undergoing an astounding transformation that will usher in a new era of political volatility and experimentation in the coming years. The region is in the midst of a historically unprecedented demographic surge that has skewed the median age in most countries to below twenty years old. This demographic moment coincides with three factors likely to amplify the political agendas of Afri…
It could happen anywhere in America. And it could happen today. Stopping the Deportation Machine tells the true story of one undocumented student’s journey to America to escape death threats, reunite with his family, and pursue an education. In the blink of an eye, Wildin Acosta’s dream of becoming the first member of his family to graduate high school in the United States turned into a nig…
In the book, Edoardo Giglio, a leading expert in cyber and strategic risk management, delves into the transformative power of innovation strategies in shaping the modern geopolitical landscape. As traditional military might gives way to technological prowess, this book reveals how countries can compete and collaborate within the global innovation ecosystem. Through detailed case studies, Gigli…
Analisis cara efektif membentuk pemikiran politik abad 21 dengan pendekatan psikologi, sosial, dan komunitas, bukan debat konvensional.
China's defense industrial base is operating on a wartime footing, while the U.S. defense industrial base is largely operating on a peacetime footing. Overall, the U.S. defense industrial ecosystem lacks the capacity, responsiveness, flexibility, and surge capability to meet the U.S. military's production and warfighting needs. Unless there are urgent changes, the United States risks weakening …
In the days after Donald Trump’s unexpected victory on election night 2016, The New York Times, CNN, and other leading media outlets reached out to one of the few pundits who had correctly predicted the outcome, Allan J. Lichtman. While many election forecasters base their findings exclusively on public opinion polls, Lichtman looks at the underlying fundamentals that have driven every presid…
An investigation into the corruption of the electric industry and its role in polluting our planet. Electric utilities have faced a few scandals over the past century or so, but corruption is growing as the power industry’s conventional business model is falling apart. Modern technologies challenge their monopoly mindsets and outmoded generators. Threatened utilities, in turn, gun for taxp…
Sociologist Mikhail Anipkin presents a case-study of the political career of a high-ranking regional party leader, Alexander Anipkin, the author’s father. The book explores political turbulence in the late Soviet Union with the focus on Perestroika (reconstruction), 1985-1991. The author views those momentous processes through the political activity of the book’s key figure, who enthusiasti…
Panduan memahami dan membaca data polling politik, lebih dari “kuda-lomba” angka, guna menangkap tren opini publik.
We like to believe that bigotry is a product of ignorance and that if we educate people enough, they will become immune to bigotry. But what if bigotry isn’t a lack of education, but rather a moral code that people live by? What if bigotry is a common code of hate to which no community is immune? On Bigotry is a field guide for understanding how bigots think and teach others to think, how …
Buku ini menekankan bisnis yang berorientasi pada nilai, etika, dan tanggung jawab sosial, menggabungkan profit dengan dampak positif bagi masyarakat dan lingkungan.
Analisis komprehensif tentang prinsip, proses, dan parameter tata kelola pemilu untuk mewujudkan penyelenggaraan demokratis dan berintegritas.
Di bagian awal, buku ini menjelaskan mengenai teori-teori sebab musabab perilaku terorisme dari berbagai sudut pandang dan berbagai macam tipe dan dimensi terorisme. Terorisme sesungguhnya tidak hanya terbatas pada isu agama atau hanya pada agama tertentu. Hal ini sekaligus sebagai klarifikasi atau disclaimer untuk menepis anggapan bahwa menangani terorisme sama dengan menjadi bagian dari gerak…
Buku ini mengkaji peran bias kognitif dalam proses analisis intelijen dengan fokus pada metode Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH) yang banyak digunakan oleh komunitas intelijen. Martha Whitesmith secara kritis menguji efektivitas ACH dalam mengurangi bias analis ketika menilai informasi yang kompleks dan ambigu. Melalui pendekatan empiris dan studi eksperimental, buku ini mengevaluasi sejau…
pemahaman dasar tentang geopolitik global bagi pembaca umum, termasuk generasi muda, dengan membahas sejarah, tantangan, dan isu-isu global yang saling terkait. Buku setebal sekitar 400 halaman ini mengupas latar belakang sejarah dunia, karakteristik tiap wilayah, kekuatan global, serta isu-isu seperti perubahan iklim, pandemi, terorisme, dan pentingnya multilateralisme, menjadikannya panduan p…
Penyebab utama terjadinya perang saudara serta strategi untuk mencegah dan menghentikannya. Penulis menjelaskan bahwa perang saudara tidak muncul secara tiba-tiba, tetapi dimulai dari tanda-tanda awal seperti perpecahan politik, polarisasi masyarakat, melemahnya kepercayaan publik terhadap pemerintah, ketidakadilan sosial, serta meningkatnya ujaran kebencian dan kekerasan dalam kelompok. Selai…
Tan Malaka mengusulkan aksi massa sebagai strategi perjuangan rakyat dalam memenuhi kebutuhan politik dan ekonomi, bukan sekadar pemberontakan kecil.
Buku ini membahas transformasi birokrasi melalui AI, meningkatkan efisiensi, transparansi, dan pelayanan publik di era digital secara praktis dan strategis.
Buku yang melahirkan sistem ekonomi kapitalis Di masa Smith, pandangan merkantilis menganggap bahwa faktor alam yang menyebabkan kemakmuran suatu bangsa. Mereka menumpuk simpanan emas, perak, dan logam mulia lainnya, baik melalui perdagangan ataupun jalan perang. Namun resep Smith sebaliknya. Faktor manusia pekerja yang produktif, rajin menabung dan berinvestasi, juga melalui jalan perdaganga…
Buku pengantar yang membahas konsep dasar komunikasi politik, aktor, pesan, media, serta perannya dalam membentuk opini publik dan proses demokrasi.
Hukum Pidana (Criminal Law, Penal Law, Strafrecht, Lex Criminalis) memiliki peran yang tidak bisa digantikan dalam ekosistem Revolusi Industri 4.0 sebagai upaya pencapaian tujuan masyarakat sosial, ekonomikal, legal, dan teknologikal. Dampak dari revolusi dan konvergensi dari Teknologi Informasi dalam peradaban Digital dapat dipahami dengan melakukan pendekatan legislasi, regulasi, dan swa regu…
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 ser…
Buku ini mengulas pasal demi pasal KUHP Nasional dengan penjelasan akademis, konteks pembaruan hukum pidana, serta panduan praktis bagi mahasiswa dan praktisi hukum.
Kesadaran akan bahaya senjata nuklir dan segala akibatnya telah muncul, bahkan sebelum senjata pemusnah massal ini digunakan di Nagasaki dan Hiroshima pada 1945. Albert Einstein dan Leo Szilard, yang kali pertama menyarankan untuk mengembangkan senjata nuklir untuk menghadapi Jepang, justru kemudian mengingatkan bahaya dan dampaknya terhadap umat manusia. Ironisnya, dalam masa Perang Dingin, ya…