...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 ... ...R DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ... A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND ... ...l 177 * Bodhi-tree festival 180 Dangers of life 182 Attraction of sex tourism 182 * Fated to contract Aids 183 * Drugs and the village commun... ...hailand churned out by modern information industry tells us only about sex tourism, drugs, Aids, child labour... as if the Western reader only wants t... ...l 177 * Bodhi-tree festival 180 Dangers of life 182 Attraction of sex tourism 182 * Fated to contract Aids 183 * Drugs and the village commun... ... Bertens, Hans 1995. The Idea of the Postmodernism. A History. Routledge, London. Bhamorabutr, Abha 1983 (1980). Thai Proverbs. Bangkok. Bissing, W... ...ng of South East Asia. Translated by H. M. Wright. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London. Castells, Manuel 1997. The Information Age: Economy, Society, Cult... ...ia Imperialism Reconsidered. The Homogenizing of Television Culture. Sage, London. Chitakasem, Manas – Andrew Turton (eds.) 1991. Thai Constructions ...

...worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages in Lampang Province, and the changes in villagers' lives over three decades. The book also speaks through the voices of villagers themse...

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The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ...First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation— ...in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation... ...ly in a declaration faxed early in 1998 to an Arabic-language newspaper in London. Few Americans had noticed it. The fax had been sent from thousands ... ...hiri, arranged from their Afghan headquar- ters for an Arabic newspaper in London to publish what they termed a fatwa issued in the name of a “World I... ...ich it had been linked when Bin Ladin was in Sudan. It also reinforced its London base and its other offices around Europe, the Balkans, and the Cauca... ... returned their passports, which had been altered and now contained forged tourism stamps for Singapore, Malaysia,Turkey, and Egypt. KSM told them to ...

... a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...