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When originally published in 1981 this was the first book to bring together in one volume some of the most thoughtful work by British academics and specialists studying the political violence and terrorism which had recently challenged Britain and other Western democracies. Four chapters consider the strategy and tactics of the IRA and the problems of the Northern Ireland conflict. Other articles discuss the phenomena of international terrorism.

Essential reading for courses on political violence, revolution war and staregic studies, this volume will also be of relevance for...

This book examines violence in international affairs. Originally published in 1975, the two types of violence which the book focusses on are nuclear deterrence and international terrorism. The broader perspective in which the ISODARCO discussions took place was the recognition of the need for a new kind of world order and the international contributors reflect a wide variety of ideological perspectives.

First published in 1981, this book contains papers on terrorism, presented to the International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts (ISODARCO). The subject is a complex one as one man s terrorist is another man s freedom-fighter . No simple solution exist to the threat to domestic and international stability posed by the increased use of violence employed by various politically-motivated groups, challenging the authority of sovereign states.

Many of the world s leading authorities on terrorism and sub-state violence are among the contributors here, including J. Bowyer...

Proceedings of sessions of the ASCE National Convention, held in San Diego, California, October 23-27, 1995.

This Geotechnical Special Publication contains six papers on the static and dynamic behavior of landslides. Geotechnical engineering and engineering geology are important considerations, as are mechanical characterization of the materials, appropriate modeling and analysis of landslides, geologic setting that results in landslide, and geomorphology indicative of landslide susceptible terrain. Case studies of landslides from Maine, Kentucky, Southern California, and France,...

Like the rest of British North America, the American South was -born capitalist.- The slave plantation, then, was essentially a form of business enterprise like any other--indeed, one quite modern and sophisticated for its time. There were initially very few significant differences in business culture between the northern and southern parts of what became the United States. Yet the plantation placed its peculiar stamp on the South, and vice versa, and its path of development diverged increasingly from that of the growing manufacturing belt of the North.

In their essays collected in...