Current IR theories and approaches, which are almost exclusively built in the West, are alien to the non-Western contexts which engender the most hard pressing problems of world and ultimately unhelpful in understanding or addressing the needs surrounding these issues. Our supposedly revolutionary new concepts and approaches remain largely insufficient in explaining what happens globally and in…
This book is a much-needed update on our understanding of public diplomacy. It intends to stimulate new thinking on what is one of the most remarkable recent developments in diplomatic practice that has challenged practitioners as much as scholars. Thought-leaders and up-and-coming authors in Debating Public Diplomacy agree that official efforts to create and maintain relationships with publics…
Major IR theories, which stress that actors will inevitably only seek to enhance their own interests, tend to contrive binaries of self and other and ‘inside’ and ‘outside’. By contrast, this book recognizes the general need of all to relate, which they do through various imagined resemblances between them. The authors of this book therefore propose the ‘balance of relationships’ (…
"Pengujian Undang Undang (Judicial Review) no 38 tahun 2008 tentang Pengesahan Charter Of The Association Of Southeast Asian Nations (Piagam Perhimpunan Bangsa-Bangsa Asia Tenggara) kepada Mahkamah Konstitusi, menjadi tanda bahwa masih belum terdapat suatu jalan yang dapat menyelesaikan masalah antara hukum tata negara nasional dengan hukum (perjanjian) internasional. Masalah itu adalah Undang …
Buku ini mencoba memberi panduan bagi para peminat politik luar negeri, tidak hanya mahasiswa dan akademisi, tetapi juga khalayak ramai yang makin sensitif terhadap setiap kebijakan luar negeri Indonesia. Masyarakat kini makin sadar dan peka terhadap apa yang dilakukan pemerintah. Selain terhadap Malaysia, kebijakan yang lebih pro-Barat, terlalu lunak pada Israel yang terus menindas rakyat Pal…
Hubungan Internasional (HI) sebagai sebuah bidang studi interdisiplin, mengalami perkembangan sangat pesat setelah berakhirnya Perang Dingin. Bahkan, menurut Amitav Acharya, studi HI merupakan salah satu disiplin akademis yang paling cepat pertumbuhannya (the fastest growing academic disciplines), jika dibandingkan dengan ilmu sosial mana pun. Pertumbuhan yang cepat terjadi tidak hanya dalam ha…
This book contains the thoughts and predictions on the dynamivs to be faced by Indonesia,booth the nation and state.