The New Rulers of the World keyword-arabian-peninsula This book rejects a commonplace

The New Rulers of the World keyword arabian peninsula This book rejects a commonplace This book rejects a commonplace of European history: that the treaties of Westphalia not only closed the Thirty Years’ War but also inaugurated a new international order driven by the interaction of territorial sovereign states Public Access insists that academics must exercise more responsibility towards the publics who underwrite but often misunderstand their work and its significance Beginning with Indonesia he shows how General Suharto’s bloody seizure of power in the 1960s was part of a western design to impose a ‘global economy’ on Asia