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"Indonesia is Southeast Asia's largest economy and freest democracy yet vested interests and local politics serve as formidable obstacles to infrastructure reform. In this critical analysis of the politics inhibiting infrastructure investment, Jamie S. Davidson utilizes evidence from his research, press reports and rarely used consultancy studies to challenge mainstream explanations for low investment rates and the sluggish adoption of liberalizing reforms. He argues that obstacles have less to do with weak formal institutions and low fiscal capacities of the state than with entrenched, rent-seeking interests, misaligned central-local government relations, and state-society struggles over land. Using a political-sociological approach, Davidson demonstrates that 'getting the politics right' matters as much as getting the prices right or putting the proper institutional safeguards in place for infrastructure development. This innovative account and its conclusions will be of interest to students and scholars of Southeast Asia and policymakers of infrastructure investment and economic growth."

"Skripsi ini membahas bagaimana persebaran dan hubungan pemukiman etnis Cina di Kawasan Medan pada akhir abad ke-19 sampai awal abad ke-20. Pada pemukiman dilihat bagaimana persamaan dan perbedaan karakteristik setiap situs pemukiman etnis Cina. Tujuan umum penelitian ini adalah merekonstruksi kebudayaan masa lalu etnis Cina di Medan. Selain itu, penelitian ini bertujuan khusus untuk mengetahui karakteristik setiap situs pemukiman etnis Cina.Penelitian ini menggunakan metode arkeologi pemukiman tingkat makro. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa persebaran situs-situs pemukiman etnis Cina menunjukkan pola linier di mana berkembang dari utara menuju pusat Kota Medan. Sementara itu, hubungan antarsitus berkaitan dengan faktor migrasi dan ekonomi.

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This undergraduate thesis is talk about distribution and relationship chinese settlement in Medan from the end of 19th century until early 20th century. This research is look at the similarities and differences between each site. General purpose is to reconstruction the culture of chinese in the past. Besides, the special purpose is to understand the characteristics of each site. Method that had been used is the archaeology of settlement in macro scale. The result is the distribution of chinese settlement in Medan shows that the pattern is linear. Meanwhile, the relationships between each site cause of migration and economy."

"This book aims to present innovative theoretical and empirical approaches that can increase our understanding of this transition. Scholars from the fields of international relations, international political economy, economics and security studies not only explore current theoretical debates on ?power? and ?power shifts? among entities, but also provide fresh insights into relevant aspects of international power in the 21st century. With a particular focus on aspects of international security, trade and production, new methods of identifying power and its sources are presented, and their potential implications and challenges are discussed."

"From the time of the earliest settlements the Europeans had seen America as a New World which would give them unlimited opportunity in the future. This image was cherished especially by those who had left their homelands for greater economic opportunities. Between 1620 and 1635 England suffered from economic difficulties. Many people lost their jobs. This deteriorating condition was aggravated by insufficient crops, because most of the lands were used for sheep-raising to meet the increasing demand for wool for England's expanding wool industries. To the first immigrants, then, the new land became the land of hope. Many settlers believed that God had granted them the American land as a second chance for them to live on after the first chance had been ruined in their previous home country. America was really a place of relief for the people who were weary of too much suffering. It was stated that when the first immigrants were approaching the American shore, they felt that "air at 12 leagues' distance smelt as sweet as a new-blown garden-. (US IS, 1978: 1-3). Those people considered America just like the second Garden of Eden they were always dreaming about. The vast, virgin forest, extending along the eastern seaboard from the north to the south, and rich in natural resources, resembled the earthly paradise and then became the object of pursuit for the suffering people. This Edenic possibility continued to be a strong attraction and since America's beginning, the development of American society had been marked by the great tide of immigrants toward the west. This Edenic dream also became a motivating factor for the waves of later immigrants to the new world in the centuries which followed, especially in the 19th Century, where the Edenic dream was transformed into myth that had spread among the pioneers who moved west. The people believed that because the western areas were still virgin, a promising future lay ahead, in the treasure island which became a rich source of raw materials for the development of the country. .As the coastal seaboard became densely populated and the soil became incapable of producing grain, these unfavorable conditions stimulated migration to the western regions, and there came a steady stream of men and women who left their coastal farms and villages to take advantage of the frontier life of the continent. "