Buku ini menggambarkan tentang naik turunnya hubungan antara Tiongkok dan Malaysia sejak Republik Rakyat Tiongkok (RRT) berdiri pada 1949. Bahkan, pada saat Malaya masih berada di bawah cengkeraman kolonialisme Inggris.
Problem dasar keseluruhan pembahasan di dalam buku ini adalah sebuah pemikiran politik yang disebut Negara Hukum. Negara Hukum adalah dua terminologi mayor dalam pemikiran politik yang dikenal sejak zaman Yunani Kuno sampai zaman modern hingga kontemporer. Buku ini merupakan sebuah buku ajar wajib pada Program Pascasarjana Ilmu Politik FISIP UI untuk mata kuliah Pemikiran Politik.
Menerima amanah sebagai Wagub Kaltara adalah pengkhianatan keputusan untuk tak lagi terjun ke dunia politik birokrasi. Bukan hanya ingin sepenuhnya bersama keluarga, alasan utamanya adalah kesadaran pentingnya regenerasi guna memperkuat eksistensi berbangsa dan bernegara. Akhirnya muncul pertimbangan, jangan sampai kesempatan yang kita miliki untuk memperjuangkan kepentingan rakyat menjadi keke…
Kurun waktu 70 tahun Indonesia merdeka senantiasa didera dengan permasalahan yang silih berganti, antara lain : moral keadilan, iklim politik yang amburadul serta menghalalkan segala cara dalam mencapai tujuan. Dan tanpa disadari bahwa ketertinggalan bangsa ini di bidang apapun telah dimanfaatkan oleh bangsa asing sebagai jalan tol (highway) untuk memperkosa ideologi serta mengeksploitasi hak k…
Konstitusi keadilan sosial tidak boleh dijadikan pajangan atau sekadar rujukan dalam pidato-pidato politik atau rumusan teks hukum yang tidak mewujud dalam kenyataan. Konstitusi keadilan sosial hendaklah dijadikan rujukan yang nyata dalam teori dan praktik. Maka, sejak masa reformasi, bangsa Indonesia telah membentuk mahkamah dan membangun mekanisme pengujian konstitusional atas pelbagai kebija…
The Politics is one of the most influential texts in the history of political thought, and it raises issues which still confront anyone who wants to think seriously about the ways in which human societies are organized and governed. By examining the way societies are run--from households to city states--Aristotle establishes how successful constitutions can best be initiated and upheld. For th…
This book provides a fresh interdisciplinary analysis into the lives of migrant children and youth over the course of the twentieth century and up to the present day. Adopting biopolitics as a theoretical framework, the authors examine the complex interplay of structures, contexts and relations of power which influence the evolution of child migration across national borders. The volume also in…
Dasar-Dasar Ilmu Politik membahas konsep-konsep seperti politik, kekuasaan, dan pembuatan keputusan. Di sini, para mahasiswa serta masyarakat umum yang berminat dalam dunia ilmu politik juga mempelajari fungsi undang-undang dasar, kelompok-kelompok politik, dewan perwakilan rakyat, demokrasi, serta hak-hak asasi manusia. Edisi pertama buku ini telah dicetak ulang 30 kali dan tahun 2008 ini GPU…
This book assesses diverse ways to think about "others" while also emphasizing the advantages of decolonial intersectionality. The author analyzes the struggles that emerge among Andean indigenous intellectuals, governmental projects, and IR scholars from the Global North. From different perspectives, actors propose and promote diverse ways to deal with "others". By focusing on the epistemic as…
The notion of ‘silence’ in Politics and International Relations has come to imply the absence of voice in political life and, as such, tends to be scholastically prescribed as the antithesis of political power and political agency. However, from Emma Gonzáles’s three minutes of silence as part of her address at the March for Our Lives, to Trump’s attempts to silence the investigation i…
Over the last decade, anti-government demonstrations worldwide have brought together individuals and groups that were often assumed unlikely to unite for a common cause due to differences in ideological tendencies. They have particularly highlighted the role of youth, women, social media, and football clubs in establishing unusual alliances between far left and far right groups and/or secular a…
Strategic Conspiracy Narratives proposes an innovative semiotic perspective for analysing how contemporary conspiracy theories are used for shaping interpretation paths and identities of a targeted audience. Conspiracy theories play a significant role in the viral spread of misinformation that has an impact on the formation of public opinion about certain topics. They allow connecting different…
This volume presents and interrogates both theoretical and artistic expressions of the revolutionary, militant spirit associated with "1968" and the aftermath, in the specific context of gender. The contributors explore political-philosophical discussions of the legitimacy of violence, the gender of aggression and peaceability, and the contradictions of counter violence; but also women’s a…
This innovative new book argues that diplomacy, which emerged out of the French Revolution, has become one of the central ideological state apparatuses of the modern democratic nation-state. The book is divided into four thematic parts. The first presents the central concepts and theoretical perspectives derived from the work of Slavoj Žižek, focusing on his understanding of politics, ideol…
The contributors examine traditional and non-traditional diplomatic actors, and domestic, regional, continental, and global orders. They argue that African diplomats profoundly shape these orders by situating themselves within in-between-spaces of geographical and functional orders. It is in these borderlands that agency, despite all kinds of constraints, flourishes. Chapters in the book compar…
Sudah sejak lama persoalan negara hukum dan hak asasi manusia, selalu diperbincangkan dikalangan ahli-ahli hukum ketatanegaraan dan dikalangan para pemikir-pemikir politik. Tujuannya untuk mencari suatu konsep yang ideal, tentang negara hukum dan perlindungan hak asasi manusia, namun berabad-abad lamanya konsep negara hukum dan perlindungan hak asasi manusia yang dianggap ideal tersebut, selalu…
Apakah pendidikan bisa dipisahkan dengan kebudayaan? Apakah keduanya sebenarnya satu mata uang yang sama dengan dua sisinya untuk laku kehidupan ini? Buku Pendidikan yang Berkebudayaan dari Yudi Latif menjawab pertanyaan-pertanyaan mendasar itu dengan menyumberkan pada Ki Hadjar Dewantara dengan visi pendidikannya sebagai proses belajar menjadi manusia seutuhnya untuk dipelajari dan dikembangka…
Corruption is increasingly recognized as a preeminent problem in the developing world. Bribery, extortion, fraud, kickbacks, and collusion have resulted in retarded economies, predator elites, and political instability. In this lively and absorbing book, Robert Klitgaard provides a framework for designing anti-corruption policies, and describes through five case studies how courageous policymak…
The term 'middle power' is conceptually fragile. Some scholars have even argued for abandoning it. This book argues that the concept needs to be analysed more profoundly and that new analytical tools need to be developed to better understand the phenomenon. The traditional approach, based on Western states, is insufficient and has become increasingly irrelevant in a transformed global environme…
President Obama’s former United States chief of protocol looks at why etiquette and diplomacy matter—and what they can do for you. History often appears to consist of big gestures and dramatic shifts. But for every peace treaty signed, someone set the stage and provided the pen. As social secretary to the Clintons for eight years, and more recently as chief of protocol under President Ob…
This book examines what counts regarding the role and conceptualization of regions in world politics. It presents a fresh look at which narratives awake, persist, fall dormant or re-emerge amidst diverse interlocking processes of environmental, technological and global political changes. It puts forward a thorough and multidimensional conceptualization of regions as embedded in changing, overla…
This book examines how Rwandan elites within the government, private sector and civil society perceive the nation’s political and economic relationship with the international community. Using testimonies and interviews of Rwandan political, military and economic leaders, and bureaucrats, this book examines the intersubjective beliefs that formulate how Rwanda engages with the international co…
The effective management of differences between groups within democracies means moving beyond the examination of individual rights. In the field of national minorities conflict prevention diplomacy, promoting the effective participation of national minorities in public life is a primary objective. Enhancing participation encourages a sense of belonging, contributes to societal integration, and …
Biopolitical Disaster employs a grounded analysis of the production and lived-experience of biopolitical life in order to illustrate how disaster production and response are intimately interconnected. The book is organized into four parts, each revealing how socio-environmental consequences of instrumentalist environmentalities produce disastrous settings and political experiences that are evid…