Indonesia S Forgotten War

Author : John G. Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 1856490157

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Indonesia's Forgotten War by John G. Taylor Pdf

Author : John G. Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015021974913

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Indonesia's Forgotten War by John G. Taylor Pdf

The people of East Timor voted overwhelmingly in August 1999 for independence and an end to Indonesian occupation. In this updated and much expanded edition of Indonesia's Forgotten War: The Hidden History of East Timor (Zed Books, rev ed 1994), John Taylor tells the story of what happened following President Suharto's overthrow. The new government conceded the right of the United Nations to organise the long delayed referendum giving the East Timorese a choice between continued association with Indonesia or independence. At the very moment the historic vote was being counted, armed gangs organised by the Indonesian military plunged the island into an orgy of killing, burning and forced flight. John Taylor analyses the world's reaction to this new genocide of the East Timorese people, the despatch of a peacekeeping force, and the prospects of independence.

Author : Matt Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134193301

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Indonesia's War over Aceh by Matt Davies Pdf

Since 2001, Indonesia’s military commitment to Aceh province resulted in one of Southeast Asia’s largest wars for decades. Indonesia's War over Aceh presents the background and history of this war, investigating its domestic and international implications, at a time when the recent tsunami catastrophe has brought Aceh to world attention. Using military doctrinal references and extensive, original research, Davies reconstructs reported events, combatant forces, terminology and statistical data to expose many of the war’s sensitive issues. He challenges others’ preceding research by detailing the Indonesian military’s mission, structures, combat strains, and activity within political, operational and paramilitary realms. Drawing on Indonesian-Malay sources normally unseen by the English-speaking world, Indonesia's War over Aceh will be essential reading for regional specialists and those interested in contemporary conflict.

Author : Christopher Alan Bayly,Timothy Norman Harper
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 067401748X

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Forgotten Armies by Christopher Alan Bayly,Timothy Norman Harper Pdf

In the early stages of the Second World War, the vast crescent of British-ruled territories stretching from India to Singapore appeared as a massive Allied asset. It provided scores of soldiers and great quantities of raw materials and helped present a seemingly impregnable global defense against the Axis. Yet, within a few weeks in 1941-42, a Japanese invasion had destroyed all this, sweeping suddenly and decisively through south and southeast Asia to the Indian frontier, and provoking the extraordinary revolutionary struggles which would mark the beginning of the end of British dominion in the East and the rise of today's Asian world. More than a military history, this gripping account of groundbreaking battles and guerrilla campaigns creates a panoramic view of British Asia as it was ravaged by warfare, nationalist insurgency, disease, and famine. It breathes life into the armies of soldiers, civilians, laborers, businessmen, comfort women, doctors, and nurses who confronted the daily brutalities of a combat zone which extended from metropolitan cities to remote jungles, from tropical plantations to the Himalayas. Drawing upon a vast range of Indian, Burmese, Chinese, and Malay as well as British, American, and Japanese voices, the authors make vivid one of the central dramas of the twentieth century: the birth of modern south and southeast Asia and the death of British rule.

Author : Charles A. Coppel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135788926

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Violent Conflicts in Indonesia by Charles A. Coppel Pdf

Indonesia is currently affected by many serious conflicts which have arisen as a result of a variety of ethnic, religious and regional tensions. Presenting important new thinking on violent conflict in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, this book examines a selection of conflicts in detail and discusses the nature of violence and the reasons behind violent outbreaks. Chapters include analysis of conflicts in Aceh, East Timor, Maluku, Java, West Kalimantan, West Papua and elsewhere. The contributors provide analysis of political, ethnic and nationalistic killings, with a concentration on the post-Suharto era. The book goes on to examine vital questions concerning the way in which violence in Indonesia is represented in the media, and explores ways in which violent conflicts could be resolved or prevented. The last section turns the focus onto victims of violence and forms of justice and retribution.

Author : Mark Chmiel
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1566398576

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Elie Wiesel and the Politics of Moral Leadership by Mark Chmiel Pdf

"Chmiel also critically engages Wiesel's long-standing defense of the State of Israel as well as his confrontations and collaborations with the U.S. government, including the birth of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the 1985 Bitburg affair with President Reagan, and U.S. intervention in the Balkans."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Harry Aveling,Damien Kingsbury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136498169

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Autonomy and Disintegration in Indonesia by Harry Aveling,Damien Kingsbury Pdf

Fragmentation in Indonesia is by far the most critical issue now facing the state. This book analyses social unrest, autonomy and separatism in the wake of the Indonesian economic crisis, placing them in the context of state evolution, and looking at the competing aims of economic and political globalization with local agendas. Topics covered include Indonesian nationalism in historical perspective, identity and the nation-state, NGO activism, and case-studies from Aceh, Papua, East Timor and Sumatra.

Author : Chris Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134052400

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Ethno-Religious Violence in Indonesia by Chris Wilson Pdf

From 1999 until 2000, the conflict in North Maluku, Indonesia, saw the most intense communal violence of Indonesia’s period of democratization. This book examines this brutal conflict, illustrating in detail how and why previously peaceful religious communities can descend into violent conflict.

Author : Steve Sharp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136213441

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Journalism and Conflict in Indonesia by Steve Sharp Pdf

This book examines, through the case study of Indonesia over recent decades, how the reporting of violence can drive the escalation of violence, and how journalists can alter their reporting practices in order to have the opposite effect and promote peace. It discusses the nature of press freedom in Indonesia from 1966 onwards, considers the relationship between the press and politicians, and explores journalists’ working methods. It goes on to outline in detail the communal wars in eastern Indonesia in the period 1999-2000, arguing that communication as much as physical preparations for violence were key to bringing about the wars, with journalists’ rigid professional routines and newswriting conventions causing them to reproduce and enlarge the battle cries of those at war. The book concludes by advocating a "development communication" approach to journalism in transitional settings, in order to help journalists to counter the disintegrative tendencies of failing states and the communal strife that can result.

Author : Christopher Alan Bayly,Timothy Norman Harper
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0674021533

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Forgotten Wars by Christopher Alan Bayly,Timothy Norman Harper Pdf

This is a panoramic account of the bitter wars of the end of empire, seen not only through the eyes of the fighters, but also through the personal stories of ordinary people.

Author : Włodzimierz Borodziej,Maciej Górny
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108837156

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The Great War in East-Central Europe by Włodzimierz Borodziej,Maciej Górny Pdf

Włodzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Górny set out to salvage the historical memory of the experience of war in the lands between Riga and Skopje, beginning with the two Balkan conflicts of 1912-1913 and ending with the death of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1916. The First World War in the East and South-East of Europe was fought by people from a multitude of different nationalities, most of them dressed in the uniforms of three imperial armies: Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian. In this first volume of Forgotten Wars, the authors chart the origins and outbreak of the First World War, the early battles, and the war's impact on ordinary soldiers and civilians through to the end of the Romanian campaign in December 1916, by which point the Central Powers controlled all of the Balkans except for the Peloponnese. Combining military and social history, the authors make extensive use of eyewitness accounts to describe the traumatic experience that established a region stretching between the Baltic, Adriatic, and Black Seas.

Author : Michel Seymour
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773571778

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Fate of the Nation State by Michel Seymour Pdf

The work contains theoretical essays and case studies by philosophers, sociologists, political scientists and governmental analysts that provide state of the art analyses of the situation of the nation-state as it is developing all over the world in the new millenium.

Author : Ehito Kimura
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136301810

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Political Change and Territoriality in Indonesia by Ehito Kimura Pdf

What makes large, multi-ethnic states hang together? At a time when ethnic and religious conflict has gained global prominence, the territorial organization of states is a critical area of study. Exploring how multi-ethnic and geographically dispersed states grapple with questions of territorial administration and change, this book argues that territorial change is a result of ongoing negotiations between states and societies where mutual and overlapping interests can often emerge. It focuses on the changing dynamics of central-local relations in Indonesia. Since the fall of Suharto’s New Order government, new provinces have been sprouting up throughout the Indonesian archipelago. After decades of stability, this sudden change in Indonesia’s territorial structure is puzzling. The author analyses this "provincial proliferation", which is driven by multilevel alliances across different territorial administrative levels, or territorial coalitions. He demonstrates that national level institutional changes including decentralization and democratization explain the timing of the phenomenon. Variations also occur based on historical, cultural, and political contexts at the regional level. The concept of territorial coalitions challenges the dichotomy between centre and periphery that is common in other studies of central-local relations. This book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of comparative politics, political geography, history and Asian and Southeast Asian politics.

Author : Darius Rejali
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400830879

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Torture and Democracy by Darius Rejali Pdf

This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from slavery and the electric chair to electrotorture in American inner cities, and from French and British colonial prison cells and the Spanish-American War to the fields of Vietnam, the wars of the Middle East, and the new democracies of Latin America and Europe. As Rejali traces the development and application of one torture technique after another in these settings, he reaches startling conclusions. As the twentieth century progressed, he argues, democracies not only tortured, but set the international pace for torture. Dictatorships may have tortured more, and more indiscriminately, but the United States, Britain, and France pioneered and exported techniques that have become the lingua franca of modern torture: methods that leave no marks. Under the watchful eyes of reporters and human rights activists, low-level authorities in the world's oldest democracies were the first to learn that to scar a victim was to advertise iniquity and invite scandal. Long before the CIA even existed, police and soldiers turned instead to "clean" techniques, such as torture by electricity, ice, water, noise, drugs, and stress positions. As democracy and human rights spread after World War II, so too did these methods. Rejali makes this troubling case in fluid, arresting prose and on the basis of unprecedented research--conducted in multiple languages and on several continents--begun years before most of us had ever heard of Osama bin Laden or Abu Ghraib. The author of a major study of Iranian torture, Rejali also tackles the controversial question of whether torture really works, answering the new apologists for torture point by point. A brave and disturbing book, this is the benchmark against which all future studies of modern torture will be measured.

Author : Joanne Wallis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107064713

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Constitution Making during State Building by Joanne Wallis Pdf

This book argues that fragmented, divided societies that aren't immediately compatible with centralised statehood can best adjust by emphasising the role of constitution making.