1 - 20
Next
Number of results to display per page
- Lau, Lawrence J., 1944- author.
- First edition. - Hong Kong : The Chinese University Press, [2019]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xxii, 191 pages) : color illustrations.
- Summary
-
- Foreword / by Tung Chee-Hwa
- part I. Understanding the trade war : history, facts and potential impacts. Historical highlights of China-U.S. relations
- The reality of the China-U.S. trade balance
- How serious are the impacts?
- part II. Competitors and partners : challenges and opportunities for China and the U.S. Economic complementarities
- Economic competition
- Why is there a technological gap?
- Enhancing mutual economic interdependence
- part III. Beyond the trade war. The long-term forces at work
- The way forward.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
2. Extremism [2018]
- Berger, J. M. (John M.), 1967- author.
- Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2018]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource
- Summary
-
What extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence
- Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2020
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource
- Summary
-
Drawing on two decades of government efforts to secure the homeland, experts offer crucial strategic lessons and detailed recommendations for homeland security.For Americans, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, crystallized the notion of homeland security. But what does it mean to secure the homeland in the twenty-first century? What lessons can be drawn from the first two decades of US government efforts to do so? In Beyond 9/11, leading academic experts and former senior government officials address the most salient challenges of homeland security today.The contributors discuss counterterrorism, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure protection; border security and immigration; transportation security; emergency management; combating transnational crime; protecting privacy in a world of increasingly intrusive government scrutiny; and managing the sprawling homeland security bureaucracy. They offer crucial strategic lessons and detailed recommendations on how to improve the U.S. homeland security enterprise
4. The European Union in Africa: Incoherent policies, asymmetrical partnership, declining relevance?. [2015]
- Carbone, Maurizio.
- [Place of publication not identified] : Oxford University Press USA, 2015.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource. Digital: data file.
- Summary
-
- I. Introduction
- 1. EU-Africa relations in the twenty-first century: evolution and explanations - Maurizio Carbone II. Actors and contexts
- 2. The European Union as an actor in Africa: internal coherence and external legitimacy - Fredrik Soederbaum
- 3. The EU's Africa policy between the US and China: interests, altruism, and cooperation - Gorm Rye Olsen
- 4. Locating the EU's strategic behaviour in Sub-Saharan Africa: an emerging strategic culture? - Richard G. Whitman and Toni Haastrup
- 5. Africa's place in international relations: domestic politics, global linkages - Ian Taylor
- 6. African regionalism: external influences and continental shaping forces - Mary Farrell III. Policies and partnerships
- 7. Foreign aid, coordination, and ownership in EU-Africa relations - Maurizio Carbone
- 8. EU human rights and democracy promotion in Africa: normative power or realist interests? - Gordon Crawford
- 9. Economic Partnership Agreements and Africa: losing friends and failing to influence - Christopher Stevens
- 10. Unfulfilled expectations? The EU's agricultural and fisheries policies and Africa - Alan Matthews
- 11. Out of Africa: the energy-development nexus - Amelia Hadfield
- 12. Climate change and the EU-Africa Strategy: coherence, leadership, and the 'greening' of development - Simon Lightfoot
- 13. The EU-Africa migration partnership: the limits of the EU's external dimension of migration in Africa - Tine Van Criekinge
- 14. Work in progress: the social dimension of EU-Africa relations - Jan Orbie IV. Conclusion
- 15. European policies, African impact and international order: (re)evaluating the EU-Africa relationship - Michael Smith Index
- .
- (source: Nielsen Book Data)
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Wilson, James Wood, author.
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2018.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Berman, Eli.
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2009.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xi, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Summary
-
- Why are religious terrorists so lethal? Hezbollah
- The Taliban
- Hamas
- The lethality of religious radicals
- What motivates terrorists? The afterlife and other myths
- Terrorist organizations, why so few?
- Internal economies and organizational efficiency
- What's coming?
- The defection constraint
- Origins of the Taliban
- trade routes and defection
- Coordinated assault
- Terrorism and defection: Hamas
- The Jewish underground: terrorists who overreached
- Hezbollah and suicide attacks
- The Mahdi army in Iraq
- Sects, prohibitions, and mutual aid: the organizational secrets of religious radicals
- Prohibitions and sacrifices: the benign puzzles
- Where are the dads?
- Mutual aid
- Prohibitions and clubs
- Evidence
- Fertility
- Pronatalist prohibitions
- Radical Islam and fertility
- Sect, Subsidy, and Sacrifice: Subsidized sacrifice
- Madrassas
- Subsidized prohibitions and fertility
- How many radical Islamists?
- The Hamas model: why religious radicals are such effective terrorists: The "Hamas model"
- Origins of the model
- Hamas
- Social Service provision by the Taliban, Hezbollah, and al-Sadr
- Why religious radicals are such lethal terrorists
- Terrorist clubs
- Evidence
- When terrorists fail
- Clubs and violence without religion
- Gratuitous cruelty
- Objections
- Why suicide attacks?
- Rebels, insurgents, and terrorists
- Suicide attacks
- Evidence
- Coreligionists are soft targets
- Clubs
- Alternative explanations
- The future of suicide attacks
- Constructive counterterrorism: How terrorist clubs succeed
- Constructive counterterrorism
- What's wrong with the old-fashioned methods?
- Where to start?
- The Malayan Precedent
- Religious radicals and violence in the modern world: Radical Christians, benign and violent
- The supernatural and credibility
- Markets and denominations
- Jewish and Muslim denominations
- What's wrong with religion in government? Competition and pluralism
- Not about us
- What's our role?
- Analytical Appendix: The defection constraint
- Clubs, loyalty, and outside options
- Suicide attacks vs. hard targets
- Protecting hard targets by improving outside options.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
How do radical religious sects run such deadly terrorist organizations? Hezbollah, Hamas, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the Taliban all began as religious groups dedicated to piety and charity. Yet once they turned to violence, they became horribly potent, executing campaigns of terrorism deadlier than those of their secular rivals. In Radical, Religious, and Violent, Eli Berman approaches the question using the economics of organizations. He first dispels some myths: radical religious terrorists are not generally motivated by the promise of rewards in the afterlife (including the infamous seventy-two virgins) or even by religious ideas in general. He argues that these terrorists (even suicide terrorists) are best understood as rational altruists seeking to help their own communities. Yet despite the vast pool of potential recruits -- young altruists who feel their communities are repressed or endangered -- there are less than a dozen highly lethal terrorist organizations in the world capable of sustained and coordinated violence that threatens governments and makes hundreds of millions of civilians hesitate before boarding an airplane. What's special about these organizations, and why are most of their followers religious radicals? Drawing on parallel research on radical religious Jews, Christians, and Muslims, Berman shows that the most lethal terrorist groups have a common characteristic: their leaders have found a way to control defection. Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Taliban, for example, built loyalty and cohesion by means of mutual aid, weeding out "free riders" and producing a cadre of members they could rely on. The secret of their deadly effectiveness lies in their resilience and cohesion when incentives to defect are strong.These insights suggest that provision of basic social services by competent governments adds a critical, nonviolent component to counterterrorism strategies. It undermines the violent potential of radical religious organizations without disturbing free religious practice, being drawn into theological debates with Jihadists, or endangering civilians.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Roach, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1945- author.
- New Haven, [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2014]
- Description
- Book — xvi, 326 pages ; 25 cm
- Summary
-
The Chinese and U.S. economies have been locked in an uncomfortable embrace since the late 1970s. Although the relationship initially arose out of mutual benefits, in recent years it has taken on the trappings of an unstable codependence, with the two largest economies in the world losing their sense of self, increasing the risk of their turning on one another in a destructive fashion. In Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China Stephen Roach, senior fellow at Yale University and former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, lays bare the pitfalls of the current China-U.S. economic relationship. He highlights the conflicts at the center of current tensions, including disputes over trade policies and intellectual property rights, sharp contrasts in leadership styles, the role of the Internet, the recent dispute over cyberhacking, and more. A firsthand witness to the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, Roach likely knows more about the U.S.-China economic relationship than any other Westerner. Here he discusses: * Why America saving too little and China saving too much creates mounting problems for both* How China is planning to re-boot its economic growth model by moving from an external export-led model to one of internal consumerism with a new focus on service industries* How America, shows a disturbing lack of strategy, preferring a short-term reactive approach over a more coherent Chinese-style planning framework* The way out: what America could do to turn its own economic fate around and position itself for a healthy economic and political relationship with China In the wake of the 2008 crisis, both unbalanced economies face urgent and mutually beneficial rebalancings. Unbalanced concludes with a recipe for resolving the escalating tensions of codependence. Roach argues that the Next China offers much for the Next America-and vice versa.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Online
Business Library
Business Library | Status |
---|---|
Stacks | Request (opens in new tab) |
HF3128 .R63 2014 | Unknown |
8. The Arab world and Latin America : economic and political relations in the twenty-first century [2016]
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2016.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xxviii, 351 pages)
- Summary
-
- Preface PART I: Framework of Cooperation
- Chapter 1: Arab-Latin American Relations in the 21st Century: An Introduction. Fehmy Saddy
- Chapter 2: Arab-Latin American Dialogue: A Brazilian Perspective. Celso Amorim
- Chapter 3: Reflections on Mercosur-Arab Countries Bi-regional Preferential Trade and Investment Agreements. Felix Pena
- Chapter 4: Arab-Latin American Inter-regional Cooperation in Culture and Education. Cecilia Baesa and Elena Lazarou PART II: Trade Relations
- Chapter 5: MENA-Latin American Trade Relations: An Arab Perspective. Ayah El Said
- Chapter 6: Latin American-MENA Trade Relations: A Brazilian Perspective. Michel Abdo Alaby PART III: Food Security
- Chapter 7: Food Security in the Middle East: Theory and Practice. Fehmy Saddy
- Chapter 8: Water Resources and Agriculture in the Middle East. Faisal Awawdeh
- Chapter 9: Sharing Food Resources with MENA Countries. Cesar Borges de Sousa
- Chapter 10: Arab Fertilizers for Latin American Agriculture. TK
- PART IV: Energy Cooperation
- Chapter 11: Energy Cooperation with Latin America: An Arab Perspective. TK
- Chapter 12: Energy Cooperation with Arab Countries: A Latin American Perspective. TK PART V: Finance and Investment
- Chapter 13: Arab-Latin American Participation Finance. Fehmy Saddy
- Chapter 14: Brazilian Business Culture: A Practical Guide. Fehmy Saddy PART VI: Technical Cooperation
- Chapter 15: Agricultural Research and Innovation. Mauricio Lopes
- Chapter 16: Mineral Resources Development: the Chilean Experience. Juan Carlos Guajardo
- Chapter 17: Healing Skins and Souls: Brazil's Answer to Wars in the Middle East. Joao Marcelo Ramalhor
- Chapter 18: New Frontiers in Immunology Sciences. Jorge Kalil.
- (source: Nielsen Book Data)
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Cambridge, MA : American Academy of Arts and Sciences : MIT Press, ©2004
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages)
- Summary
-
The stability of the former Soviet states is threatened by their precarious geopolitical position within a turbulent economic and political environment. Swords and Sustenance explores the complex economic dimension of national security for two key post-Soviet countries, Belarus and Ukraine--that is, how they have dealt with the challenges posed by internal economic and political reform and their relationships with Russia and the West.The book first examines how differing commitments to economic and political reform (reform is largely absent in Belarus) affect Belarusian and Ukrainian approaches to security. It then considers the central role of Russia, and how Russian interests and policies toward Belarus and Ukraine limit the two countries' foreign and domestic policy choices. Two chapters discuss the national security implications for Belarus and Ukraine of two key economic factors in their foreign policy: energy trade (in the form of oil, gas, and pipelines) and military-industrial cooperation (including the sale of arms). Finally, the book considers the relationships of Belarus and Ukraine with regional and global institutions and explores the policies of the EU, NATO, and the United States toward Belarus and Ukraine
- Mahrenbach, Laura Carsten, 1982- author.
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Description
- Book — xii, 245 pages ; 23 cm.
- Summary
-
- 1. Empirical Puzzle, Arguments and Research Design
- 2. Brazil: Context and Trade Liberalization
- 3. Brazil: Dispute Settlement and Conclusions
- 4. India: Context and Trade Liberalization
- 5. India: Dispute Settlement and Conclusions
- 6. Conclusions, Revised Framework and Implications.
- (source: Nielsen Book Data)
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Online
Green Library
Green Library | Status |
---|---|
Find it Stacks | Request (opens in new tab) |
HF1413 .M294 2013 | Unknown |
- Ogunbadejo, Oye, author.
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource.
- Summary
-
- Preface
- 1. African Strategic Minerals in the International System
- 2. The Exploitation of Africa's Strategic Minerals: Some Theoretical Explanations Revisited
- 3. Africa's Strategic Minerals and the North-South System
- 4. The International Politics of Africa's Uranium
- 5. Uranium, South Africa's Nuclear Capability and World Peace
- 6. Uranium, African States and Nuclear Proliferation
- 7. Africa's Strategic Minerals in Perspective Index.
- (source: Nielsen Book Data)
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Stobart, Jon, 1966-
- [Place of publication not identified] : Manchester University Press, 2013.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (272 pages) Digital: data file.
- Summary
-
- Introduction: shifting the economic development agenda
- Economic development and the urban system
- Uneven development: geographical specialisation and inter-dependency
- An advanced organic economy: the textile industries
- A mineral-based energy economy: coal-using industries
- The service sector and urban hierarchies
- Spatial integration and the urban system
- Conclusions: the integration of local, regional, national and international economies
- Sources of urban population totals for north-west England in the 1770s
- Probate records as sources of occupational information.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (vi, 323 pages) : illustrations
- Summary
-
- Paths to peace and prosperity / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
- The political economy of warfare / Edward L. Glaeser
- Globalization and insecurity: reviewing some basic issues / Michelle R. Garfinkel, Stergios Skaperdas, Constantinos Syropoulos
- Investing in regimes with stationary or roving bandits / Kai A. Konrad
- A gravity model of globalization, democracy, and transnational terrorism / S. Brock Blomberg, B. Peter Rosendorff
- The factionalization of terror groups / Ethan Bueno de Mesquita
- Urban structure in a climate of terror / Stephen Sheppard
- War in Iraq versus containment / Steven J. Davis, Kevin M. Murphy, Robert H. Topel
- Using household data to study the economic consequences of violent conflict: the case of Rwanda / Marijke Verpoorten.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2014]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xviii, 285 pages) : illustrations
- Summary
-
- 1. Strategic aspects of fighting in alliances / Kai A. Konrad
- 2. Fiscal equalization and political conflict / Maria Cubel
- 3. Natural resources, social conflict, and poverty trap / Davide Fiaschi
- 4. A game of thrones : power structure and the stability of regimes / Ruixue Jia and Pingham Liang
- 5. The probability of a military rule in Africa, 1970 to 2007 / Raul Caruso, Jacopo Costa, and Robert Ricciuti
- 6. Sociopolitical conflict and economic performance in Bolivia / Jose Luis Evia, Roberto Laserna, and Stergios Skaperdas
- 7. Occupational choices and insurgency in Afghanistan's provinces / Vincenzo Bove and Leandro Elia
- 8. Social unrest in the wake of IMF structural adjustment programs / Caleb Stroup and Ben Zissimos
- 9. Social preferences of ex-combatants : survey and experimental evidence from postwar Tajikistan / Alessandra Cassar, Pauline Grosjean, and Sam Whitt.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
15. Policy framing in the European Union [2011]
- Daviter, Falk, 1975-
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Description
- Book — viii, 195 p. ; 22 cm.
- Summary
-
- Introduction Policy Framing Analysis Biotechnology: the Creation of a Policy Field Policy Reframing The Transformation of the Policy Conflict The Framing of EU Biotechnology Conclusion Literature.
- (source: Nielsen Book Data)
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Online
Green Library
Green Library | Status |
---|---|
Find it Stacks | Request (opens in new tab) |
H97 .D395 2011 | Unknown |
- O'Sullivan, Meghan L.
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2003.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xvi, 424 pages) : illustrations, maps Digital: data file.
- Summary
-
- Sanctions, globalization, and American preeminence
- Influencing Iran
- Inhibiting Iraq
- Limiting Libya
- Sanctioning Sudan
- Shrewd sanctions: economic tools and U.S. foreign policy.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
17. Global politics and financial governance [2010]
- Germain, Randall D., 1961-
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Description
- Book — xvi, 227 p. ; 22 cm.
- Summary
-
- Preface and Acknowledgments Financial Governance and the State Forging Financial Governance Extending Financial Governance Financial Governance and the Great Freeze Global Politics and Financial Governance Power and Governance in the Global Financial System Conclusion: Global Governance and National Responsibility Guide to Further Reading Select Chronology of Financial Crises and Collapses.
- (source: Nielsen Book Data)
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Online
Green Library
Green Library | Status |
---|---|
Find it Stacks | Request (opens in new tab) |
HB3722 .G46 2010 | Unknown |
- Mustacich, Suzanne, author.
- New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
- Description
- Sound recording — 1 sound file : digital Digital: audio file.
- Summary
-
"The wine merchants of Bordeaux and the rising entrepreneurs of China would seem to have little in common--old world versus new, tradition versus disruption, loyalty versus efficiency. And yet these two communities have found their destinies intertwined in the conquest of new markets, as Suzanne Mustacich shows in this provocative account of how China is reshaping the French wine business and how Bordeaux is making its mark on China. Thirsty Dragon lays bare the untold story of how an influx of Chinese money rescued France's most venerable wine region from economic collapse, and how the result was a series of misunderstandings and crises that threatened the delicate infrastructure of Bordeaux's insular wine trade. The Bordelais and the Chinese do business according to different and often incompatible sets of rules, and Mustacich uncovers the competing agendas and little-known actors who are transforming the economics and culture of Bordeaux, even as its wines are finding new markets--and ever higher prices--in Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong, with Hong Kong and London traders playing a pivotal role. At once a tale of business skullduggery and fierce cultural clashes, adventure, and ambition, Thirsty Dragon offers a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges facing the world's most famous and prestigious wines"-- Provided by publisher.
Business Library
Business Library | Status |
---|---|
Online resource | |
eResource | Unknown |
19. Africa's turn? [2009]
- Miguel, Edward.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xii, 161 pages) : illustrations Digital: data file.
- Summary
-
- Is it Africa's turn?
- Forum: Robert H. Bates ; Ken Banks ; Olu Ajakaiye ; Rosamond Naylor ; David N. Weil ; Jeremy M. Weinstein ; Smita Singh ; Paul Collier ; Rachel Glennerster
- Real progress.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
Signs of hope in sub-Saharan Africa: modest but steady economic growth and the spread of democracy. By the end of the twentieth century, sub-Saharan Africa had experienced twenty-five years of economic and political disaster. While "economic miracles" in China and India raised hundreds of millions from extreme poverty, Africa seemed to have been overtaken by violent conflict and mass destitution, and ranked lowest in the world in just about every economic and social indicator. Working in Busia, a small Kenyan border town, economist Edward Miguel began to notice something different starting in 1997: modest but steady economic progress, with new construction projects, flower markets, shops, and ubiquitous cell phones. In Africa's Turn? Miguel tracks a decade of comparably hopeful economic trends throughout sub-Saharan Africa and suggests that we may be seeing a turnaround. He bases his hopes on a range of recent changes: democracy is finally taking root in many countries; China's successes have fueled large-scale investment in Africa; and rising commodity prices have helped as well. Miguel warns, though, that the growth is fragile. Violence and climate change could derail it quickly, and he argues for specific international assistance when drought and civil strife loom. Responding to Miguel, nine experts gauge his optimism. Some question the progress of democracy in Africa or are more skeptical about China's constructive impact, while others think that Miguel has underestimated the threats represented by climate change and population growth. But most agree that something new is happening, and that policy innovations in health, education, agriculture, and government accountability are the key to Africa's future. Contributors Olu Ajakaiye, Ken Banks, Robert Bates, Paul Collier, Rachel Glennerster, Rosamond Naylor, Smita Singh, David N. Weil, and Jeremy M. Weinstein.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Bock, Joseph G.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource
- Summary
-
- Towards an applied theory of violence prevention
- Reporting and warning about deadly possibilities
- Organizing against ethnoreligious violence in Ahmedabad
- Overcoming gang violence in Chicago
- Counteracting ethnoreligious violence in Sri Lanka
- Crowdsourcing during post-election violence in Kenya
- Foisting tribal violence in East Africa
- Comparing the approaches
- How to intervene effectively
- What to do when violence prevention is unlikely to work
- Concerns about misallocation of resources
- Future directions and recommendations.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
Articles+
Journal articles, e-books, & other e-resources
Guides
Course- and topic-based guides to collections, tools, and services.