Number One, Wisma Putra - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Number One, Wisma Putra write by . This book was released on 2006. Number One, Wisma Putra available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book, is an extraordinary accomplishment . It contains first-hand recollections by people at No.1, Wisma Putra - the present-day address of the new Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the new administrative capital, Putrajaya.
Malaysia's Foreign Policy
Malaysia's Foreign Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Malaysia's Foreign Policy write by Johan Saravanamuttu. This book was released on 2010. Malaysia's Foreign Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book captures Malaysia's foreign policy over the first fifty years and beyond since the date of the country's formal independence in 1957. The author provides "macro-historical" narratives of foreign policy practices and outcomes over distinct time periods under the tenures of the five prime ministers. One chapter delves into relations with immediate neighbouring states and another chapter analyses the political economy of foreign policy. A postscript deals with the transition of foreign policy beyond the fifth decade. The concluding chapter suggests that Malaysian middlepowermanship has been in the making in foreign policy practice being particularly evident since the Mahathir years. Employing a critical-constructivist approach throughout the study, the author posits that foreign policy should be appreciated as outcomes of socio-political-economic processes embedded within a Malaysian political culture. In terms of broad policy orientations, Malaysian foreign policy over five decades has navigated over the terrains of neutralism, regionalism, globalization and Islamism. However, the critical engagement of civil society in foreign policy construction remains a formidable challenge.
Malaysia
Malaysia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Malaysia write by Chandran Jeshurun. This book was released on 2007. Malaysia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Foreign Ministries
Foreign Ministries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foreign Ministries write by B. Hocking. This book was released on 2016-07-27. Foreign Ministries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In seeking to test the conventional wisdom that foreign ministries are 'in decline', the contributors to this book examine the role and status of foreign ministries in twelve countries together with their place within the European Union. Valuable information on the response of the foreign policy machinery to change at both the domestic and international levels is provided as are important insights into the linkages between foreign policy and the mechanisms through which it is conducted. This book will be essential reading for those concerned with foreign policy-making in the post-Cold War era as well as those interested in the evolving machinery of government in its broader context.
Hard Interests, Soft Illusions
Hard Interests, Soft Illusions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hard Interests, Soft Illusions write by Natasha Hamilton-Hart. This book was released on 2012-02-15. Hard Interests, Soft Illusions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Hard Interests, Soft Illusions, Natasha Hamilton-Hart explores the belief held by foreign policy elites in much of Southeast Asia—Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam—that the United States is a relatively benign power. She argues that this belief is an important factor underpinning U.S. preeminence in the region, because beliefs inform specific foreign policy decisions and form the basis for broad orientations of alignment, opposition, or nonalignment. Such foundational beliefs, however, do not simply reflect objective facts and reasoning processes. Hamilton-Hart argues that they are driven by both interests—in this case the political and economic interests of ruling groups in Southeast Asia—and illusions. Hamilton-Hart shows how the information landscape and standards of professional expertise within the foreign policy communities of Southeast Asia shape beliefs about the United States. These opinions frequently rest on deeply biased understandings of national history that dominate perceptions of the past and underlie strategic assessments of the present and future. Members of the foreign policy community rarely engage in probabilistic reasoning or effortful knowledge-testing strategies. This does not mean, she emphasizes, that the beliefs are insincere or merely instrumental rationalizations. Rather, cognitive and affective biases in the ways humans access and use information mean that interests influence beliefs; how they do so depends on available information, the social organization and practices of a professional sphere, and prevailing standards for generating knowledge.
