The Eu and Multilateral Security Governance
ISBN: 9780415679305 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume studies the role of the EU in peace and security as a regional actor with global aspirations, in a context of challenged and changing multilateralism. It examines and defines the pertinent concept of multilateral security governance, which needs further clarification and analysis.
This volume studies the role of the EU in peace and security as a regional actor with global aspirations, in a context of challenged and changing mult...
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Why Peace
ISBN: 9780984980208 / Angielski / Miękka / 636 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Guttman explores aggression and the evolutionaryNand revolutionaryNprocess to peace. Through the insights of men and women from a wide range of backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives, he presents stories of wars, invasions, and political repressions down to the most basic levels of authoritarianism.
Guttman explores aggression and the evolutionaryNand revolutionaryNprocess to peace. Through the insights of men and women from a wide range of backgr...
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120,09 zł |
Opportunities in Protection Materials Science and Technology for Future Army Applications
ISBN: 9780309212854 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Armor plays a significant role in the protection of warriors. During the course of history, the introduction of new materials and improvements in the materials already used to construct armor has led to better protection and a reduction in the weight of the armor. But even with such advances in materials, the weight of the armor required to manage threats of ever-increasing destructive capability presents a huge challenge. Opportunities in Protection Materials Science and Technology for Future Army Applications explores the current theoretical and experimental understanding...Armor plays a significant role in the protection of warriors. During the course of history, the introduction of new materials and improvements in t... |
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China
ISBN: 9780313384820 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Global Security Watch--China" presents a comprehensive overview of the main foreign and defense policies of the People's Republic of China, emphasizing the political-military developments in the modern era since the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident. It provides a historical overview in the first chapter, followed by information on the domestic factors that affect Chinese national security, such as economics, society, and politics; China's external objectives; its global energy strategy; and its defense policies and security objectives. Drawing upon a wide variety of domestic and foreign... "Global Security Watch--China" presents a comprehensive overview of the main foreign and defense policies of the People's Republic of China, emphas... |
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263,94 zł |
Intelligence Collection: How To Plan and Execute Intelligence Collection In Complex Environments
ISBN: 9780313398179 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Just as the old rules of conventional warfare and intelligence analysis do not apply fully in the 21st-century environment, neither does the traditional methodology of collecting intelligence on these elusive, adapting foes operating as complex adaptive systems (CAS)--adversaries that excel in today's complex contexts. "Intelligence Collection: How To Plan and Execute Intelligence Collection In Complex Environments" proposes substantive improvements in the way the U.S. national security system collects intelligence and supports intelligence analysis. The work draws on the groundbreaking... Just as the old rules of conventional warfare and intelligence analysis do not apply fully in the 21st-century environment, neither does the tradit... |
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The Post-Dictatorship Generation in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay: Collective Memory and Cultural Production
ISBN: 9780230120600 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Post-Dictatorship Generation in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay explores how young adults in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay make sense of the 1970s socialist projects and the ensuing years of repression in their activism, film, and literature.
The Post-Dictatorship Generation in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay explores how young adults in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay make sense of the 1970s s...
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385,52 zł |
Real-Time Diplomacy: Politics and Power in the Social Media Era
ISBN: 9780230339422 / Angielski / Twarda / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In light of the events of 2011, Real-Time Diplomacy examines how diplomacy has evolved as media have gradually reduced the time available to policy makers. It analyzes the workings of real-time diplomacy and the opportunities for media-centered diplomacy programs that bypass governments and directly engage foreign citizens.
In light of the events of 2011, Real-Time Diplomacy examines how diplomacy has evolved as media have gradually reduced the time available to policy ma...
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192,74 zł |
Egypt Awakening in the Early Twentieth Century: Mayy Ziyadah's Intellectual Circles
ISBN: 9780230340862 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through a detailed study of Mayy Ziyadah's literary salon, Boutheina Khaldi sheds light on salon and epistolary culture in early twentieth-century Egypt and its role in Egypt's Nahdah (Awakening). Bringing together history, women's studies, Arabic literatu
Through a detailed study of Mayy Ziyadah's literary salon, Boutheina Khaldi sheds light on salon and epistolary culture in early twentieth-century Egy...
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The Rand Corporation (1989-2009): The Reconfiguration of Strategic Studies in the United States
ISBN: 9780230340923 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on a case study of the RAND Corporation, this shows how the uncertainties of US defense policies since the fall of the USSR can be understood and illustrated through an analysis of the evolution of the think tank community, and more particularly through a sociological study of the so-called defense intellectuals such as the RAND Corporation.
Based on a case study of the RAND Corporation, this shows how the uncertainties of US defense policies since the fall of the USSR can be understood an...
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Interpretations of Peace in History and Culture
ISBN: 9780230360587 / Angielski / Twarda / 329 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first volume in the trilogy 'Many Peaces' on transrational peace and elicitive conflict transformation. It proposes an innovative analysis of peace interpretations in global history and contemporary cultures of peace, the so-called five families of energetic, moral, modern, post-modern, and transrational.
This is the first volume in the trilogy 'Many Peaces' on transrational peace and elicitive conflict transformation. It proposes an innovative analysis...
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192,74 zł |
Pushing the Boundaries of Latin American Testimony: Meta-Morphoses and Migrations
ISBN: 9780230338470 / Angielski / Twarda / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Revealing twenty-first century contexts, ground-breaking scenarios, and innovative mediums for this highly contested life writing genre, this volume showcases a new generation of testimonio scholarship.
Revealing twenty-first century contexts, ground-breaking scenarios, and innovative mediums for this highly contested life writing genre, this volume s...
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192,74 zł |
Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices : Summary of a Workshop on Current Knowledge and Research Gaps
ISBN: 9780309185134 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a summary of the Workshop on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices: Current Knowledge and Research Gaps, held April 13 and 14, 2010, in Washington, D.C., under the auspices of the National Research Council's Committee on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices: Current Knowledge and Research Needs. The workshop was structured to gather inputs and insights from social science researchers, technologists, emergency management professionals, and other experts knowledgeable about how the public responds to alerts and warnings, focusing...This book presents a summary of the Workshop on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices: Current Knowledge and Research Gaps, held... |
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177,75 zł |
The Psychology of Terrorism
ISBN: 9780415698009 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Horgan presents a detailed, critical analysis of our existing knowledge and understanding of terrorist psychology, and in doing so, highlights substantial shortcomings and limitations of the nature and direction of current research.
John Horgan presents a detailed, critical analysis of our existing knowledge and understanding of terrorist psychology, and in doing so, highlights su...
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The Psychology of Terrorism
ISBN: 9780415698023 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new edition of John Horgan's critically acclaimed book is fully revised and expanded. The book presents a critical analysis of our existing knowledge and understanding of terrorist psychology. Despite the on-going search for a terrorist pathology, the most insightful and evidence-based research to date not only illustrates the lack of any identifiable psychopathology in terrorists, but demonstrates how frighteningly 'normal' and unremarkable in psychological terms are those who engage in terrorist activity. By producing a clearer map of the processes that impinge upon... This new edition of John Horgan's critically acclaimed book is fully revised and expanded. The book presents a critical analysis of ... |
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Indigenous Nations and Modern States : The Political Emergence of Nations Challenging State Power
ISBN: 9780415808538 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indigenous peoples throughout the world tenaciously defend their lands, cultures, and their lives with resilience and determination. They have done so generation after generation. These are peoples who make up bedrock nations throughout the world in whose territories the United Nations says 80 percent of the world's life sustaining biodiversity remains. Once thought of as remnants of a human past that would soon disappear in the fog of history, indigenous peoples-as we now refer to them-have in the last generation emerged as new political actors in global, regional and local debates. As...
Indigenous peoples throughout the world tenaciously defend their lands, cultures, and their lives with resilience and determination. They have done so...
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Canada, the Congo Crisis, and Un Peacekeeping, 1960-64
ISBN: 9780774816373 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1960 the Republic of Congo teetered near collapse as its first government struggled to cope with civil unrest and mutinous armed forces. When the UN established what would become the largest peacekeeping operation of the Cold War, the Canadian government faced a difficult decision. Should it support the intervention? As Kevin Spooner demonstrates, Canada's involvement in the mission was not preordained. The Diefenbaker government became enmeshed in a complex web of foreign and defence policy determinants that caused it to have immediate and ongoing reservations -- reservations... In 1960 the Republic of Congo teetered near collapse as its first government struggled to cope with civil unrest and mutinous armed forces. When th... |
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173,99 zł |
The Activists' Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide to Participatory Democracy
ISBN: 9781848135932 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'The Activists' Handbook' is a powerful guide to grassroots activism. A priceless resource for everyone ready to make a difference, environmental activist Aidan Ricketts offers a step-by-step handbook for citizens eager to start or get involved in grass-roots movements and beyond.
Providing all essential practical tools, methods and strategies needed for a successful campaign and extensively discussing legal and ethical issues, this book empowers its readers to effectively promote their cause. Lots of ready-to-use documents and comprehensive information on digital activism and group... 'The Activists' Handbook' is a powerful guide to grassroots activism. A priceless resource for everyone ready to make a difference, environmental acti...
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Understanding Complex Military Operations: A case study approach
ISBN: 9780415712804 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides materials for active learning about peacebuilding and conflict management in the context of complex stability operations. Today, America faces security challenges unlike any it has faced before, many of which requiring lengthy U.S. involvement in stability operations. These challenges are exceedingly dynamic and complex because of the ever changing mix and number of actors involved, the pace with which the strategic and operational environments change, and the constraints placed on response options. This volume presents a series of case studies to inspire active... This volume provides materials for active learning about peacebuilding and conflict management in the context of complex stability operations. T... |
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793,16 zł |
Analytic Architecture for Capabilities-Based Planning, Mission-System Analysis, and Transformation
ISBN: 9780833031556 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides a definition of capabilities-based planning, puts it in the larger context of defence activity generally and sketches an analytic architecture for carrying it out.
This volume provides a definition of capabilities-based planning, puts it in the larger context of defence activity generally and sketches an analytic...
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112,93 zł |
Effective Treatment of Logistics Resource Issues in the Air Force Planning, Programming, and Bugeting System (Ppbs) Process
ISBN: 9780833032843 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors of this report propose strategic and policy changes to help the Air Force manage and fund its supply chain in an integrated manner and use closed-loop accountability systems to manage the chain, end-to-end, against its customers' goals.
The authors of this report propose strategic and policy changes to help the Air Force manage and fund its supply chain in an integrated manner and use...
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102,67 zł |