The Post Cold War World: Turbulence and Change in World Politics Since the Fall
Author: Michael Cox File Type: pdf This book by a leading scholar of international relations examines the origins of the new world disorder the resurgence of Russia, the rise of populism in the West, deep tensions in the Atlantic alliance, and the new strategic partnership between China and Russia and asks why so many assumptions about how the world might look after the Cold War liberal, democratic and increasingly global have proven to be so wrong. To explain this, Michael Cox goes back to the moment of disintegration and examines what the Cold War was about, why the Cold War ended, why the experts failed to predict it, and how different writers and policy-makers (and not just western ones) have viewed the tumultuous period between 1989 when the liberal order seemed on top of the world through to the current period when confidence in the western project seems to have disappeared almost completely. **ReviewThere are few better guides to the end of the Cold War and the beginning of a new era in international affairs than Mick Cox. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the global politics of the great transition. - O. A. Westad, Harvard University. Author of The Global Cold War and The Cold War A World HistoryAbout the Author Michael Cox is Director of LSE IDEAS and Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, United Kingdom.
Author: Andrew J. Fusco
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This book presents and discusses research in the study of polymers. Topics discussed include extrusion heads used in manufacturing polymeric castings effects of polypropylene fibres on expansion properties of cement-based composite containing waste glass biodegradation of film polymer coating new polymer technologies with water and physical-chemical properties of natural polymers.
Author: Marco Soresina
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Italian unification is one of the pivotal events in European history but the period leading up to Risorgimento has often been analysed in less detail. This book focuses on the history of the Italian states between 1815 and 1860 focusing on state institutions, international relations, economic and fiscal policies, living conditions and culture. **About the Author Marco Soresina (1957) is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Milan.
Author: Andre M. Louw
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This book undertakes a critical examination of commercial rights to sports mega-events (focusing on sponsorship), the exclusivity of such rights and the legal implications of the modern mega-event sponsorship model. It examines ambush marketing of events and the laws treatment of ambushing (specifically in the form of sui generis event legislation) in a review of 10 major jurisdictions selected on the basis of the importance of the events they are to host in the near future or have hosted recently, and the relevant domestic legislation. It critically examines the legitimacy of such commercial rights protection by means of the use of laws in the context of accepted principles of intellectual property law, competition law and human rights law. Specifically, it questions the legitimacy of the creation of statutory association rights to mega-events, and considers potential future developments in respect of the laws treatment of mega-event commercialisation. Valuable for practitioners and academics (in the fields of sportslawsponsorshipmarketingintellectual property law) sports administrators (sports governing bodies) corporate sponsors of sports and other events potential mega-event host governments and law-makers civil rights organisations.
Author: Belal E Baaquie
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Why? Why is the world, the Universe the way it is? Is space infinitely large? How small is small? What happens when one continues to divide matter into ever smaller pieces? Indeed, what is matter? Is there anything else besides what can be seen? Pursuing the questions employing the leading notions of physics, one soon finds that the tangible and visible world dissolves rather unexpectedly into invisible things and domains that are beyond direct perception. A remarkable feature of our Universe is that most of its constituents turn out to be invisible, and this fact is brought out with great force by this book. Exploring the Invisible Universe covers the gamut of topics in advanced modern physics and provides extensive and well substantiated answers to these questions and many more. Discussed in a non-technical, yet also non-trivial manner, are topics dominated by invisible things such as Black Holes and Superstrings as well as Fields, Gravitation, the Standard Model, Cosmology, Relativity, the Origin of Elements, Stars and Planetary Evolution, and more. Just giving the answer, as so many books do, is really not telling anything at all. To truly answer the why questions of nature, one needs to follow the chain of reasoning that scientists have used to come to the conclusions they have. This book does not shy away from difficult-to-explain topics by reducing them to one-line answers and power phrases suitable for a popular talk show. The explanations are rigorous and straight to the point. This book is rarely mathematical without being afraid, however, to use elementary mathematics when called for. In order to achieve this, a large number of detailed figures, specially developed for this book and found nowhere else, convey insights that otherwise might either be inaccessible or need lengthy and difficult-to-follow explanations. After Exploring the Invisible Universe, a reader will have a deeper insight into our current understanding of the foundations of Nature and be able to answer all the questions above and then some. To understand Nature and the cutting edge ideas of contemporary physics, this is the book to have. Readership Students and general public with knowledge of high school level physics and mathematics, who are interested in theoretical physics including cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics.**
Author: Paul Woodruff
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In giving to charity, should we strive to do the greatest good or promote a lesser good that we care more about? On such issues, ethical theory can have momentous practical effects. This volume is a unique collection of new papers on philanthropy from a range of philosophical perspectives. The authors are among the best-regarded philosophers writing on ethics today and include a number of thinkers who have not previously published on the subject. Most recently published work by philosophers on charitable giving tends to support what is called effective altruism-doing the most good you can. In practice, however, charitable giving is often local and relatively ineffective, supporting causes dear to the givers hearts. Are ineffective givers doing wrong or merely doing less praiseworthy work than they might? This volume includes at least three challenges to the effective altruism movement, as well as two chapters that defend it against the gathering tide of objections. Most thinkers who align with utilitarianism support effective altruism, and some other perspectives do as well. But the ideal of personal integrity can push the other way. So can justice-based theories of giving perhaps I could do the most good by stealing and giving to the poor, but that would be unjust. In the most important cases, however, justice leads to the same result as effective altruism. Other theories give different results. The authors represent include intuitionism, virtue ethics, Kantian ethics, utilitarianism, theory of justice, and the ideal of personal integrity.**About the Author Paul Woodruff is Darrell K. Royal Regents Professor of Ethics at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of five previous books including The Ajax Dilemma Justice, Fairness and Rewards.
Author: Nick Payne
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A singular astonishment. John Lahr, **The New YorkerOne relationship. Infinite possibilities.In the beginning Marianne and Roland meet at a party. They go for a drink, or perhaps they dont. They fall madly in love and start dating, but eventually they break up. After a chance encounter in a supermarket they get back together, or maybe they run into each other and Marianne reveals that shes now engaged to someone else and thats that. Or perhaps Roland is engaged. Maybe they get married, or maybe their time together will be tragically short.Nick Paynes Constellations is a play about free will and friendship its also about quantum multiverse theory, love, and honey.**