Catalogue 2012 - GB Gerakbudaya

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International Politics
New New
The Arab Revolt and The Imperialist
Counterattack
James Petras
The popular uprisings in Egypt
and Tunisia have overthrown the
public face of the imperial-backed
dictatorships in the region, and
inspired supporters of popular
democracy worldwide. As the Arab
revolt spreads from North Africa to
the Gulf and deepens its demands
to include socio-economic as well
as political demands, the Empire is
striking back. These essays
chronicle the growing militarization
of US policy in North Africa and the
Gulf and the historic confrontation between the Arab
democratic revolution and the imperial backed satraps;
between Libyans fighting for their independence and the
Euro-American naval and air forces ravaging the country on
behalf of their inept local clients.
Publisher: Clarity Press
2011: 78 pp
ISBN: 9781461117605: RM40.00 / S$17.40
New
A Liberal Peace?
The Problems and Practices of Peace Building
Edited by Susanna Campbell, David Chandler and Meera
Sabaratnam
A Liberal Peace? is a timely and
much-needed critical volume that
takes a fresh look at the oftenpolarised
debate over the ‘liberal
peace’ approach to international
intervention. Using a multitude of
case studies, from Afghanistan
to Somalia and Sri Lanka to
Kosovo, it examines contemporary
peacebuilding and statebuilding
practice, investigating the
assumptions for understanding
current interventions. Written by some of the most
prominent scholars in the field alongside several new
scholars making cutting-edge contributions, this is an
essential addition to a rapidly growing interdisciplinary area
of study.
Publisher: Zed Books
2011: 272 pp
ISBN: 9781780320021: RM110.00 / S$47.80
ASEAN–U.S. Relations
What are the Talking Points?
Edited by Pavin Chachavalpongpun
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Catalogue 2012
“ASEAN-U.S. Relations: What Are the
Talking Points? is a result of a workshop
organized by the ASEAN Studies Centre
of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
The workshop was timely then, as the two
sides, all of ASEAN, and the United States
held their first-ever summit in Singapore
in November 2009, heralding a new era of
renewed engagement. The United States is
very important for ASEAN, as a guarantor of regional
stability and a vast market for ASEAN products. At the same
time, ASEAN has gained more public attention from the
United States, particularly since the advent of the Obama
administration. This publication will serve as a reminder that
ASEAN and the United States have shared many benefits
as well as concern for many years.” – Professor Charnvit
Kasetsiri, Former Rector of Thammasat University and
Visiting Professorial Fellow, ISEAS
Publisher: ISEAS
2012: 137 pp
ISBN: 9789814311557 (Hardcover): RM100.00 / S$39.90
New
Celebrating Europe
An Asian Journey
Asad-Ul Iqbal Latif
Europe’s mythical origins lie in Zeus’
abduction of the Asian princess Europa.
Down the real centuries, Asia has played
a crucial role in the making of Europe –
as an object of Orientalist fantasy and
colonial desire, but also of the spread of
the liberating values and humane letters
associated with the continent. In this book,
a lifelong admirer of Europe casts a critical
yet loving eye on the continent to ask what it means to him.
The book revolves around a series of personal encounters.
These range from following his father to Cambridge and
meeting two Bengali lovers in Calcutta who cherish Eros
with classical Greek purity, to watching his wife recover in
a Polish hospital that lavishes care on her almost for free.
These encounters are intertwined with passionately-argued
essays on the Holocaust, the Soviet ideal and the Berlin
Wall as keenly-contested sites of the European imagination.
Publisher: ISEAS
2012: 174 pp
ISBN: 9789814311502: RM75.00 / S$29.90