Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs. Committee. 260:Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Relative Water and Power Resource Development in the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A., Jan. 4, 1960
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs. Committee. 260:Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Relative Water and Power Resource Development in the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Power in the International Investment Framework
Author: Maria A. GwynnPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137571438
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This book offers a unique analysis of bilateral investment treaties (BITs). By developing a new, power-focused paradigm for understanding the international investment framework, the author illustrates why there was no paradoxical behaviour when developing countries agreed to the BIT regime, and what has spurred their reaction against it now. She also examines how attempts to regulate investment at a multilateral level have failed, and why the rules of the framework are evolving. Inspired by the work of Susan Strange, Gwynn fills a significant lacuna in our understanding of these issues by demonstrating how power determines the actions of all those involved. This holistic reinterpretation of international investment focuses in particular on Latin America, but has wider implications for the negotiation of new treaties, including such controversial provisions as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. It will appeal to lawyers, economists, political scientists and scholars of Latin America.
Powers of Ten
Author: Philip MorrisonPublisher: Times Books
ISBN: 9780716760085
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Over 100,000 copies of this spectacular journey have already been sold. In forty-two consecutive scenes, each at a different `power of ten` level of magnification, readers are taken from the dimension of one billion light years to the realm of the atom. The text and other illustrations depict what we can perceive at each progressively smaller level of magnitude. " A brilliant pictorial and textual embodiment of a wonderful idea. " Stephen Jay Gould Videos of Powers of Ten are available from: RITELtd. Cross Tree, Walton Street, Walton in Gordano, Clevedon, Avon BS21 7AW Tel: 01275-340279 Fax: 01275-340327
Absolute and Relative Gains in the American Decision to Release Nuclear Weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A Historical Case Study
Author: Joe MajerusPublisher: diplom.de
ISBN: 3954898500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
The question of whether states pursue absolute or relative gains has divided neo-realism and neo-liberalism for quite some time now. Thus whereas neo-realists contend that states seek comparative advantages relative to others, neo-liberal scholars argue that they are primarily interested in absolute individual gains. In applying social-constructivist ideas, however, this book will demonstrate that such a preference for relative or absolute gains is not naturally predetermined, but inextricably linked to the continual 're-construction' of states' national identities and interests. By analyzing the Truman Administration's decision for using nuclear weapons against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this case study will show that American leaders were much more preoccupied with achieving absolute rather than relative gains. Such absolute considerations were influenced by the pressures of an anarchic self-help system, specific domestic imperatives and the personal views of individual policy-makers who believed that only swift socio-economic recovery and the creation of a more peaceful security environment would ultimately ensure their country's long-term international position.
The Rise And Fall of British Naval Mastery
Author: Paul KennedyPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141983833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Paul Kennedy's classic naval history, now updated with a new introduction by the author This acclaimed book traces Britain's rise and fall as a sea power from the Tudors to the present day. Challenging the traditional view that the British are natural 'sons of the waves', he suggests instead that the country's fortunes as a significant maritime force have always been bound up with its economic growth. In doing so, he contributes significantly to the centuries-long debate between 'continental' and 'maritime' schools of strategy over Britain's policy in times of war. Setting British naval history within a framework of national, international, economic, political and strategic considerations, he offers a fresh approach to one of the central questions in British history. A new introduction extends his analysis into the twenty-first century and reflects on current American and Chinese ambitions for naval mastery. 'Excellent and stimulating' Correlli Barnett 'The first scholar to have set the sweep of British Naval history against the background of economic history' Michael Howard, Sunday Times 'By far the best study that has ever been done on the subject ... a sparkling and apt quotation on practically every page' Daniel A. Baugh, International History Review 'The best single-volume study of Britain and her naval past now available to us' Jon Sumida, Journal of Modern History
Discriminant Equations in Diophantine Number Theory
Author: Jan-Hendrik EvertsePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107097614
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
The first comprehensive and up-to-date account of discriminant equations and their applications. For graduate students and researchers.
A History of Ecclesiastical Proceedings Relative to the Third Presbyterian Church
Author: John SteeleSelected Papers ...: Theory of sound
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Shifting Power in Asia-Pacific?
Author: Enrico FelsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 331945689X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 779
Book Description
This book investigates whether a power shift has taken place in the Asia-Pacific region since the end of the Cold War. By systematically examining the development of power dynamics in Asia-Pacific, it challenges the notion that a wealthier and militarily more powerful China is automatically turning the regional tides in its favour. With a special emphasis on Sino-US competition, the book explores the alleged linkage between the regional distribution of relevant material and immaterial capabilities, national power and the much-cited regional power shift. The book presents a novel concept for measuring power in international relations by outlining a composite index on aggregated power (CIAP) that includes 55 variables for 44 regional countries and covers a period of twenty years. Moreover, it develops a middle power theory that outlines the significance of middle powers in times of major power shifts. By addressing political, military and economic cooperation via a structured-focused comparison and by applying a comparative-historical analysis, the book analyses in depth the bilateral relations of six regional middle powers to Washington and Beijing.