The Disoriented State

Author : Bas Arts,Arnoud Lagendijk,Henk J. van Houtum
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781402094804

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The Disoriented State by Bas Arts,Arnoud Lagendijk,Henk J. van Houtum Pdf

By providing a unique combination of theories on the state, on territoriality and on governance, The Disoriented State explores the relationship between state governmentality and specific forms of policy making. The Disoriented State begins with a theorisation of these new modes of territoriality, governmentality and governance by three prominent scholars in the field: Neil Brenner, Phil Cerny and Bob Jessop. This is followed by a series of in-depth case studies which manifest the variety as well the various forms of co-constitution between state governmentality, new modes of governance and policy-making, focusing on migration, spatial economic policy, city-marketing, urban development, water management and environmental policy.

Author : Robert Elgie,Steven Griggs
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415174783

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French Politics by Robert Elgie,Steven Griggs Pdf

French Politics presents basic information about the French political system in an accessible way, and analyses in detail the most important debates and controversies surrounding French politics. It is essential reading for students.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Aids to air navigation
ISBN : MINN:31951D01497180A

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United States of America AIP, Aeronautical Information Publication by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1422 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Medicine
ISBN : COLUMBIA:HR02266733

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United States Naval Medical Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Chang
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814790434

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Disoriented by Robert Chang Pdf

Does "Asian American" denote an ethnic or racial identification? Is a person of mixed ancestry, the child of Euro- and Asian American parents, Asian American? What does it mean to refer to first generation Hmong refugees and fifth generation Chinese Americans both as Asian American? In Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation State, Robert Chang examines the current discourse on race and law and the implications of postmodern theory and affirmative action-all of which have largely excluded Asian Americans-in order to develop a theory of critical Asian American legal studies. Demonstrating that the ongoing debate surrounding multiculturalism and immigration in the U.S. is really a struggle over the meaning of "America," Chang reveals how the construction of Asian American-ness has become a necessary component in stabilizing a national American identity-- a fact Chang criticizes as harmful to Asian Americans. Defining the many "borders" that operate in positive and negative ways to construct America as we know it, Chang analyzes the position of Asian Americans within America's black/white racial paradigm, how "the family" operates as a stand-in for race and nation, and how the figure of the immigrant embodies a central contradiction in allegories of America. "Has profound political implications for race relations in the new century" —Michigan Law Review, May 2001

Author : Maggi A. Budd,Sigmund Hough,Stephen T. Wegener,William Stiers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319340340

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Practical Psychology in Medical Rehabilitation by Maggi A. Budd,Sigmund Hough,Stephen T. Wegener,William Stiers Pdf

This easy-access guide summarizes the dynamic specialty of rehabilitation psychology, focusing on real-world practice in the medical setting. It begins by placing readers at the frontlines of practice with a solid foundation for gathering information and communicating effectively with patients, families, and staff. The book’s topics run a wide gamut of patient conditions (neurological, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular), related problems (sleep and fatigue issues, depression) and practitioner responses (encouraging coping and compliance, pediatric and geriatric considerations). Models of disability and adaptation, review of competency concerns, and guidelines for group and individual therapy offer evidence-based insights for helping patients manage their health conditions, benefit from rehabilitation interventions, and prepare for their post-rehabilitation lives and activities. Coverage spotlights these core areas: ·Basics and biopsychosocial practicalities, from behavioral medicine and psychopharmacology to ethical and forensic issues. ·Populations, problems, and procedures, including stroke, TBI, substance abuse, transplants, and severe mental illness. ·Assessment and practical interventions such as pain, anxiety, cognitive functioning, and more. ·Consultation, advocacy, and interdisciplinary teams. ·Practice management, administration, and professional self-care. ·Research, technology, and program evaluation. Practical Psychology in Medical Rehabilitation is an essential professional development tool for novice (and a refresher for veteran) psychologists and neuropsychologists, as well as rehabilitation physicians, nurses, therapists, psychiatrists, and social workers. It presents in depth both the hallmarks of the specialty and the nuts and bolts of being a valuable team player in a medical setting.

Author : United States. Patent and Trademark Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Patents
ISBN : WISC:89050407378

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office by United States. Patent and Trademark Office Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Lasers
ISBN : PSU:000033201306

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International Conference on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Philip G. Cerny
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199745331

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Rethinking World Politics by Philip G. Cerny Pdf

Rethinking World Politics is a major intervention into a central debate in international relations: how has globalization transformed world politics? Most work on world politics still presumes the following: in domestic affairs, individual states function as essentially unified entities, and in international affairs, stable nation-states interact with each other. In this scholarship, the state lies at the center; it is what politics is all about. However, Philip Cerny contends that recent experience suggests another process at work: "transnational neopluralism." In the old version of pluralist theory, the state is less a cohesive and unified entity than a varyingly stable amalgam of competing and cross-cutting interest groups that surround and populate it. Cerny explains that contemporary world politics is subject to similar pressures from a wide variety of sub- and supra-national actors, many of which are organized transnationally rather than nationally. In recent years, the ability of transnational governance bodies, NGOs, and transnational firms to shape world politics has steadily grown. Importantly, the rapidly growing transnational linkages among groups and the emergence of increasingly influential, even powerful, cross-border interest and value groups is new. These processes are not replacing nation-states, but they are forging new transnational webs of power. States, he argues, are themselves increasingly trapped in these webs. After mapping out the dynamics behind contemporary world politics, Cerny closes by prognosticating where this might all lead. Sweeping in its scope, Rethinking World Politics is a landmark work of international relations theory that upends much of our received wisdom about how world politics works and offers us new ways to think about the forces shaping the contemporary world.

Author : Air Marshal Anil Chopra,Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja,Lt Gen Prakash Katoch,Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee,Vice Admiral MP Muralidharan,Sqn Ldr Vijainder K Thakur,Gp Capt AK Sachdev,Gp Capt Jopseph Noronha,RSN Singh,Danvir Singh
Publisher : Lancer Publishers LLC
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781940988481

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Indian Defence Review (Oct-Dec 2019) Vol 34.4 by Air Marshal Anil Chopra,Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja,Lt Gen Prakash Katoch,Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee,Vice Admiral MP Muralidharan,Sqn Ldr Vijainder K Thakur,Gp Capt AK Sachdev,Gp Capt Jopseph Noronha,RSN Singh,Danvir Singh Pdf

IN THIS VOLUME: From the editor : • Is the World Coming Apart at the Seams? – Lt Gen JS Bajwa - Editor Indian Defence Review • Militarisation of Space: Imperatives for India – Air Marshal Anil Chopra • Terrestrial Electronic Warfare: The IAF’S Unexplored Option? – Sqn Ldr Vijainder K Thakur • The Rafale is finally on IAF inventory – Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja • Advances in Military Helicopters – Gp Capt AK Sachdev • Trends in Aerial Weapons: Smart and Lethal – Gp Capt Joseph Noronha • AMCA and LCA MK II: Challenges and Options – Air Marshal Anil Chopra • INDIA’S AEROSPACE INDUSTRY: Structure, Strategies, Policies and the Road Ahead – Prof (Dr) SN Misra • 70 Years of China’s Independence: Its Message to the World – Danvir Singh • Orientations of National Defence–II – Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee • Relevance of Arthashastra in the 21st Century – Vice Admiral MP Muralidharan • Time for a Final Payback! – Sudip Talukdar • Is Pakistan Mainstreaming Lashkar-e-Toiba Again? – Dr V Balasubramaniyan & Dr SV Raghavan • North East Peace Accords – Lt Gen Prakash Katoch • Aerospace and Defence News – Priya Tyagi • Thales: A Proud Partner of the Indian Air Force – Mr Emmanuel de Roquefeuil • Attack on Saudi Oil Facilities: An Assessment – Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja • India must support Iran not clerics regime – RSN Singh • Book Reviews

Author : Louis H Kauffman
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814460309

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Knots and Physics by Louis H Kauffman Pdf

This invaluable book is an introduction to knot and link invariants as generalized amplitudes for a quasi-physical process. The demands of knot theory, coupled with a quantum-statistical framework, create a context that naturally and powerfully includes an extraordinary range of interrelated topics in topology and mathematical physics. The author takes a primarily combinatorial stance toward knot theory and its relations with these subjects. This stance has the advantage of providing direct access to the algebra and to the combinatorial topology, as well as physical ideas. The book is divided into two parts: Part I is a systematic course on knots and physics starting from the ground up, and Part II is a set of lectures on various topics related to Part I. Part II includes topics such as frictional properties of knots, relations with combinatorics, and knots in dynamical systems. In this new edition, an article on Virtual Knot Theory and Khovanov Homology has beed added. Contents:Physical KnotsStates and the Bracket PolynomialThe Jones Polynomial and Its GeneralizationsBraids and the Jones PolynomialFormal Feynman Diagrams, Bracket as a Vacuum-Vacuum Expectation and the Quantum Group SL(2)qYang–Baxter Models for Specializations of the Homfly PolynomialKnot-Crystals — Classical Knot Theory in a Modern GuiseThe Kauffman PolynomialThree Manifold Invariants from the Jones PolynomialIntegral Heuristics and Witten's InvariantsThe Chromatic PolynomialThe Potts Model and the Dichromatic PolynomialThe Penrose Theory of Spin NetworksKnots and Strings — Knotted StringsDNA and Quantum Field TheoryKnots in Dynamical Systems — The Lorenz Attractorand selected papers Readership: Physicists and mathematicians. Keywords:Knots;Kauffman;Jones PolynomialReviews: "This book is an essential volume for the student of low-dimensional topology from which a serious student can learn most aspects of modern knot theory. Its informal tone encourages investigation on the part of the reader. The author leaves the reader items to puzzle out." Mathematical Reviews Reviews of the Third Edition: “It is an attractive book for physicists with profuse and often entertaining illustrations … proofs … seldom heavy and nearly always well explained with pictures … succeeds in infusing his own excitement and enthusiasm for these discoveries and their potential implications.” Physics Today “The exposition is clear and well illustrated with many examples. The book can be recommended to everyone interested in the connections between physics and topology of knots.” Mathematics Abstracts “… here is a gold mine where, with care and patience, one should get acquainted with a beautiful subject under the guidance of a most original and imaginative mind.” Mathematical Reviews

Author : D. Josselin,W. Wallace
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403900906

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Non-State Actors in World Politics by D. Josselin,W. Wallace Pdf

The involvement of non-state actors in world politics can hardly be characterised as novel, but intensifying economic and social exchange and the emergence of new modes of international governance have given them much greater visibility and, many would argue, a more central role. Non-state Actors in World Politics offers analyses of a diverse range of economic, social, legal (and illegal), old and new actors, such as the Catholic Church, trade unions, diasporas, religious movements, transnational corporations and organised crime.

Author : Gregory Flynn,Yves Meny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000309621

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Remaking The Hexagon by Gregory Flynn,Yves Meny Pdf

In this volume, distinguished French and U.S. historians, economists, and political scientists explore the dimensions of France's current crisis of identity. Although every European nation has been adjusting to the dramatic transformations on the continent since the end of the Cold War, France's struggle to adapt has been particularly difficult. Responding to a mix of external and internal pressures, the nation is now questioning many basic assumptions about how France should be governed, what the objectives of national policies should be, and ultimately what it means to be French. Rather than focusing explicitly on the problem of identity, the contributors offer differing perspectives on the issues at the heart of the country's debate about its future. They begin by examining how France's historical legacy has influenced the way the nation confronts contemporary problems, giving special attention to the manner in which past traumatic experiences, socioeconomic and cultural traditions, and the belief in French exceptionalism have shaped current political thinking. They then consider how favoring a more open approach to trade and building a strong franc have changed the culture of economic policy and created dilemmas for the rule of the state as a guarantor of welfare. They go on to explore changes in elite structures, the evolution of the party system, and the spillover of new political conditions that are driving France's efforts to establish a strong national identity in the area of trade. Finally, the contributors examine the central influence of the changing international framework on France's self-definition, on its security policies, its relationship to the European Union, and its basic perceptions of the state and sovereignty. They also consider how the answers to these questions are affecting France's relationships with the outside world and the overriding policy dilemmas faced by all the European nations.

Author : Simona Piattoni,Laura Polverari
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784715670

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Handbook on Cohesion Policy in the EU by Simona Piattoni,Laura Polverari Pdf

This Handbook covers all major aspects of EU Cohesion policy, one of the most significant areas of intervention of the European Union. Over five parts, It discusses this policy’s history and governing principles; the theoretical approaches from which it can be assessed; the inter-institutional and multi-level dynamics that it tends to elicit; its practical implementation and impact on EU member states; its interactions with other EU policies and strategies; and the cognitive maps and narratives with which it can be associated. An absolute must for all students of the EU.

Author : Ameem Lutfi,Nisha Mathew,Serkan Yolaçan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000959727

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Strongman’s Brokers by Ameem Lutfi,Nisha Mathew,Serkan Yolaçan Pdf

This book explores the critical role of informal diplomats in shaping contemporary global politics as they navigate complex networks of power and influence in the age of strongman leaders. The world of international relations has long been viewed as the domain of state institutions and career diplomats. But in the age of strongman leaders, a new set of actors has emerged as key players in foreign policy: informal diplomats drawn from diasporas, religious communities, and trade networks. Through a collection of essays by historians, anthropologists, and political scientists, this book traces the historical parallels and continuities between these informal diplomats and the diasporic networks that have existed for centuries, shedding light on their critical role in the making of contemporary global politics. By exploring the thick social basis of the strongman-informal diplomat partnership, the contributors offer a fresh perspective on the social worlds that animate international politics today. This innovative volume will be of interest to students and researchers of politics and international relations. This book was originally published as a special issue of History and Anthropology.