Catalogue 2012 - GB Gerakbudaya
Catalogue 2012 - GB Gerakbudaya
Catalogue 2012 - GB Gerakbudaya
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10<br />
International Politics<br />
New New<br />
The Arab Revolt and The Imperialist<br />
Counterattack<br />
James Petras<br />
The popular uprisings in Egypt<br />
and Tunisia have overthrown the<br />
public face of the imperial-backed<br />
dictatorships in the region, and<br />
inspired supporters of popular<br />
democracy worldwide. As the Arab<br />
revolt spreads from North Africa to<br />
the Gulf and deepens its demands<br />
to include socio-economic as well<br />
as political demands, the Empire is<br />
striking back. These essays<br />
chronicle the growing militarization<br />
of US policy in North Africa and the<br />
Gulf and the historic confrontation between the Arab<br />
democratic revolution and the imperial backed satraps;<br />
between Libyans fighting for their independence and the<br />
Euro-American naval and air forces ravaging the country on<br />
behalf of their inept local clients.<br />
Publisher: Clarity Press<br />
2011: 78 pp<br />
ISBN: 9781461117605: RM40.00 / S$17.40<br />
New<br />
A Liberal Peace?<br />
The Problems and Practices of Peace Building<br />
Edited by Susanna Campbell, David Chandler and Meera<br />
Sabaratnam<br />
A Liberal Peace? is a timely and<br />
much-needed critical volume that<br />
takes a fresh look at the oftenpolarised<br />
debate over the ‘liberal<br />
peace’ approach to international<br />
intervention. Using a multitude of<br />
case studies, from Afghanistan<br />
to Somalia and Sri Lanka to<br />
Kosovo, it examines contemporary<br />
peacebuilding and statebuilding<br />
practice, investigating the<br />
assumptions for understanding<br />
current interventions. Written by some of the most<br />
prominent scholars in the field alongside several new<br />
scholars making cutting-edge contributions, this is an<br />
essential addition to a rapidly growing interdisciplinary area<br />
of study.<br />
Publisher: Zed Books<br />
2011: 272 pp<br />
ISBN: 9781780320021: RM110.00 / S$47.80<br />
ASEAN–U.S. Relations<br />
What are the Talking Points?<br />
Edited by Pavin Chachavalpongpun<br />
Tel: +603 - 7957 8342/8343 Fax: +603 - 7954 9202 E-mail: sird@streamyx.com<br />
Website: www.gerakbudaya.com & bookshop.gbgerakbudaya.com<br />
<strong>Catalogue</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
“ASEAN-U.S. Relations: What Are the<br />
Talking Points? is a result of a workshop<br />
organized by the ASEAN Studies Centre<br />
of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.<br />
The workshop was timely then, as the two<br />
sides, all of ASEAN, and the United States<br />
held their first-ever summit in Singapore<br />
in November 2009, heralding a new era of<br />
renewed engagement. The United States is<br />
very important for ASEAN, as a guarantor of regional<br />
stability and a vast market for ASEAN products. At the same<br />
time, ASEAN has gained more public attention from the<br />
United States, particularly since the advent of the Obama<br />
administration. This publication will serve as a reminder that<br />
ASEAN and the United States have shared many benefits<br />
as well as concern for many years.” – Professor Charnvit<br />
Kasetsiri, Former Rector of Thammasat University and<br />
Visiting Professorial Fellow, ISEAS<br />
Publisher: ISEAS<br />
<strong>2012</strong>: 137 pp<br />
ISBN: 9789814311557 (Hardcover): RM100.00 / S$39.90<br />
New<br />
Celebrating Europe<br />
An Asian Journey<br />
Asad-Ul Iqbal Latif<br />
Europe’s mythical origins lie in Zeus’<br />
abduction of the Asian princess Europa.<br />
Down the real centuries, Asia has played<br />
a crucial role in the making of Europe –<br />
as an object of Orientalist fantasy and<br />
colonial desire, but also of the spread of<br />
the liberating values and humane letters<br />
associated with the continent. In this book,<br />
a lifelong admirer of Europe casts a critical<br />
yet loving eye on the continent to ask what it means to him.<br />
The book revolves around a series of personal encounters.<br />
These range from following his father to Cambridge and<br />
meeting two Bengali lovers in Calcutta who cherish Eros<br />
with classical Greek purity, to watching his wife recover in<br />
a Polish hospital that lavishes care on her almost for free.<br />
These encounters are intertwined with passionately-argued<br />
essays on the Holocaust, the Soviet ideal and the Berlin<br />
Wall as keenly-contested sites of the European imagination.<br />
Publisher: ISEAS<br />
<strong>2012</strong>: 174 pp<br />
ISBN: 9789814311502: RM75.00 / S$29.90