Author: Urs LuterbacherPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Dimensions historique de modèles dynamiques de conflits
Author: Urs LuterbacherDimensions historiques de modèles dynamiques de conflits
Author: Urs LuterbacherDimensions historiques de modèles dynamiques de conflit
Author: Dimensions historiques de modèles dynamique de conflits
Author: Urs LuterbacherDimensions Historiques de Modéles Dynamiques de Conflit
Author: Urs LuterbacherQuantitative Assessment in Arms Control
Author: Rudolf AvenhausPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461328055
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
This book originates in a series of contributions to the 1983 Systems Science Seminar at the Computer Science Department of the German Armed Forces University Munich. Under the topic "Quantita tive Approaches to Arms Control" that seminar attempted to review the present state-of-the-art of systems analysis and numerate meth ods in arms control. To this end, the editors invited a number of experts from Europe, the United St~tes and Canada to share and dis cuss their views and assessments with the faculty and upper class computer science students of the university as well as numerous guests from the defence community and the interested public. In three parts, this book presents a selection of partly re vised and somewhat extended versions of the seminar presentations followed, in most cases, by brief summaries of the transcripts of the respective discussions. In addition to an introduction by the editors, part I contains six papers on the present state and prob lems of arms control with emphasis on START (Strategic Arms Re duction Talks), INF (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces negotia tions), and MBFR (Mutually Balanced Force Reduction talks). The seven contributions to part II are devoted to mathematical models of arms competition and quantitative approaches to force balance assessment of both, the static and dynamic variety. Part III pre sents five papers which address technical and operational aspects and legal implications of arms control negotiations and verifica tion.
Lewis Fry Richardson: His Intellectual Legacy and Influence in the Social Sciences
Author: Nils Petter GleditschPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030315894
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
This is an open access book. Lewis F Richardson (1981-1953), a physicist by training, was a pioneer in meteorology and peace research and remains a towering presence in both fields. This edited volume reviews his work and assesses its influence in the social sciences, notably his work on arms races and their consequences, mathematical models, the size distribution of wars, and geographical features of conflict. It contains brief bibliographies of his main publications and of articles and books written about Richardson and his work and discusses his continuing influence in peace research and international relations as well as his attitude to the ethical responsibilities of a scientist. It will be of interest to a wide range of scholars. This book includes 11 chapters written by Nils Petter Gleditsch, Dina A Zinnes, Ron Smith, Paul F Diehl, Kelly Kadera, Mark Crescenzi, Michael D Ward, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Nils B Weidmann, Jürgen Scheffran, Niall MacKay, Aaron Clauset, Michael Spagat and Stijn van Weezel. Lewis F Richardson occupied an important position in two academic fields as different as meteorology and peace research, with academic prizes awarded in both disciplines. In peace research, he pioneered the use of mathematical models and the meticulous compilation of databases for empirical research. As a quaker and pacifist, he refused to work in preparations for war, paid a heavy prize in terms of his career, and (at least in the social sciences) was fully recognized as a pioneering scholar only posthumously with the publication of two major books. Lewis Fry Richardson is one of the 20th century’s greatest but least appreciated thinkers—a creative physicist, psychologist, meteorologist, applied mathematician, historian, pacifist, statistician, and witty stylist. If you’ve heard of weather prediction, chaos, fractals, cliometrics, peace science, big data, thick tails, or black swans, then you have benefited from Richardson’s prescience in bringing unruly phenomena into the ambit of scientific understanding. Richardson’s ideas continue to be relevant today, and this collection is a superb retrospective on this brilliant and lovable man. Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor, Harvard University, and the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now
Emotions, Decision-Making, Conflict and Cooperation
Author: Urs LuterbacherPublisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1786350319
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
In order to use the perspective of emotions to explain conflict escalation and crises, a comparison to conceptions such as the pursuit of power or financial interests is warranted. These theoretical considerations are investigated within cases of civil wars and shown to be effective in explaining the origins but also the breakdown of conflicts.
International Relations in Europe
Author: Knud Erik JørgensenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134239653
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A new and illuminating critical examination of international relations in Europe. This new volume presents all of the state of the art thinking, focusing particularly on international relations theory and theoretical debates in Western and Central European countries. The contributors seek to strengthen knowledge about different ways of cultivating the discipline; to intensify pan-European communication concerning IR theory; to contribute to improving the quality of theorizing; and finally to consider future directions for the discipline in Europe. The main issues addressed include: the historical development of the discipline; factors driving IR theorizing; the institutional and cultural context of theorizing; 'homegrown' theory-building vs. theory import; patterns of traditional and new discourse; and the diversity of disciplinary traditions.
Report on a Negotiation
Author: Luigi Vittorio FerrarisPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789028607798
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Monograph tracing the background of the conference on security and co-operation in Europe (csce), esp. The diplomacy concerning peaceful international relations and international cooperation between European countries, the USA, Canada - summarizes the chronology of negotiations relating to disarmament and military aspects, economic relations, scientific cooperation, the particular situation of Mediterranean countries, the final resolutions, etc. Conference held in Geneva 1973 September 18 to 1975 jul 21. Conf helsinki 1973 jul 3 to 7 and 1975 aug 1.