Результаты поиска - "weapon"

Serenity found more unauthorized essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly universe /

Оглавление: “...Catching up with the future / Orson Scott Card -- Mars needs women / Maggie Burns -- Girls, guns, gags / Natalie Haynes -- River Tam and the weaponized women of the Whedonverse / Michael Marano -- I, Malcolm / Nathan Fillion -- Freedom in an unfree world / P. ...”
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ABC of conflict and disaster

Оглавление: “...Mahoney, Cara Macnab -- Approaches to conflict resolution / Ewan W. Anderson -- Weapons of mass destruction : threats and responses / Christine Gosden, Derek Gardener....”
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Activist New York : A History of People, Protest, and Politics по Jaffe, Steven H.

Оглавление: “...Chapter Eight "I Am a Working Girl": Upheaval in the Garment Trades -- Houses of Welcome: The Settlement House Movement -- Socialist Legacies: Housing Cooperatives and the Amalgamated Bank -- Chapter Nine "New York is the Battleground": The Campaign for Woman Suffrage -- Battles over Sexuality and Birth Control -- Midcentury Metropolis: 1918-1960 -- Chapter Ten "The New Negro": Activist Harlem -- To Drink or Not to Drink: Prohibition, Pro and Con -- Defending Civil Liberties: The ACLU -- Chapter Eleven "Art is a Weapon": Activist Theater in the Great Depression -- Confronting Fascism...”
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The bases of empire the global struggle against U.S. military posts /

Оглавление: “...U.S. foreign military base and military colonialism: personal and analytical perspectives / Joseph Gerson -- U.S. military bases in Latin America and the Caribbean / John Lindsay-Poland -- U.S. nuclear weapons bases in Europe / David Heller and Hans Lammerant -- Iraq as a Pentagon construction site / Tom Engelhardt -- People's movement responses to evolving U.S. military activities in the Philippines / Roland G. ...”
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Emotional diplomacy : official emotion on the international stage / по Hall, Todd H., 1976-

Оглавление: “...-- Emotional diplomacy and the emotions in IR -- Official emotion as emotional labor -- Emotional diplomacy as a team performance -- The consequences of engaging in emotional diplomacy -- Variation in emotional diplomacy -- Empirical investigations -- Explaining the 1995-96 Taiwan Strait crisis from the traditional perspective -- The diplomacy of anger -- Empirical investigations -- Looking at the crisis as an episode of coercion vs. official anger -- Explaining the RF and PRC responses in terms of traditional statecraft -- The diplomacy of sympathy -- Empirical investigations -- Looking at RF and PRC responses as official sympathy -- Explaining FRG-Israeli relations from the perspective of existing theories -- The diplomacy of guilt -- Empirical investigations -- The Luxembourg agreement -- Bullets instead of ambassadors ... FRG weapons for Israel -- The path to normalization -- Subsequent years -- The diplomacy of anger -- The diplomacy of sympathy -- The diplomacy of guilt -- Additional strains -- Quotidian and signature forms of emotional diplomacy -- Official emotion, popular emotion, and "stickiness"....”
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Creating the Modern Army : Citizen-Soldiers and the American Way of War, 1919–1939 / по Woolley, William J.

Оглавление: “...The quest for a national military policy, 1878-1920 -- Creating the citizen Army, 1919-1925 -- Disappointment and disillusionment : the Army and the nation, 1920-1925 -- The heart of the policy creating the new citizen Army -- The Army in the era of stability, 1926-1929 : creating the branches -- Stabilizing the relationship : the Army and the nation in the era of stability -- The civilian components in the era of stability -- Creating orthodoxy and predictability : professional military education in the Army, 1919-1939 -- Building a throne for the queen : infantry branch organization and branch culture in the 1920s -- Branch stagnation : American field artillery in the interwar period -- End of the big guns : mission and branch identity crisis in the coastal artillery, 1919-1939 -- Mechanizing the Army, 1930-1939 -- The Army besieged : the Army and the nation in the decade of the Depression, 1930-1939 -- Stability amidst crisis : the civilian components in the 1930s -- Modern weapons and traditional tactics, the infantry and tanks, 1920-1939 -- Mounts or motors? ...”
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New wars and new soldiers military ethics in the contemporary world /

Оглавление: “.../ Gerhard Overland -- On a duty of humanitarian intervention / David Lefkowitz -- Emerging military technologies : a case study in neurowarfare / Nick Evans -- Robotic weapons and the future of war / Robert Sparrow -- Ethics and mercenaries / Uwe Steinhoff -- Ethics and the human terrain : the ethics of military anthropology / George Lucas -- To whom does a private military commander owe allegiance? ...”
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The Maidan Uprising, separatism and foreign intervention : Ukraine's complex transition /

Оглавление: “...Foreword / Klaus Bachmann, Igor Lyubashenko -- Independent Ukraine / Andrzej Szeptycki -- The nuclear weapons issue and the Budapest Agreement / Ireneusz Kaminski -- The political system of Ukraine / Pawel Kowal -- The ethnic and cultural divisons of Ukraine / Adam Balcer -- The Crimean autonomy / Nedim Useinov -- The role of the US in Ukraine prior to and during the Maidan protests / Thomas Sparrow Botero -- Ukrainian-Russian relations after 1991 / Igor Torbakov -- The role of the Crimea in Ukrainian-Russian relations / Natalia Shapovalova -- Polish-Ukrainian relations after 1991 / Maria Przelomiec -- The EU and NATO toward Ukraine / Spasimir Domaradzki -- The "Orange Revolution" and its aftermath / Maciej Wapinski -- From the Euromajdan protests to the Sich Uprisal / Igor Lyubashenko -- Nationalism, party politics and political transition I / Adrian Mandzy -- Nationalism, party politics and political transition II / Inge Christensen -- The virtual Majdan : new patterns of mass mobilization / Igor Lyubashenko -- The challenges : political and economic transition / Klaus Bachmann -- Conclusions....”
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The modern American military

Оглавление: “...Armed Forces' view of war / Brian McAllister Linn -- 3. Weapons : the growth and spread of the precision-strike regime / Thomas G. ...”
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Cold War Anthropology : The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology / по Price, David H., 1960-

Оглавление: “...Cold War political-economic disciplinary formations -- Political economy and history of American Cold War intelligence -- World War II long shadow -- Rebooting professional anthropology in the postwar world -- After the shooting war: centers, committees, seminars, and other Cold War projects -- Anthropologists and state: aid, debt, and other Cold War weapons of the strong intermezzo -- Anthropologists' articulations with the National Security State -- Cold War anthropologists at the CIA: careers confirmed and suspected -- How CIA funding fronts shaped anthropological research -- Unwitting CIA anthropologist collaborators: MK-Ultra, human ecology, and buying a piece of anthropology -- Cold War fieldwork within the intelligence universe -- Cold War anthropological counterinsurgency dreams -- The AAA confronts military and intelligence uses of disciplinary knowledge -- Anthropologically informed counterinsurgency in Southeast Asia -- Anthropologists for radical political action and revolution within the AAA -- Untangling open secrets, hidden histories, outrage denied, and recurrent dual use themes....”
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Slingin' Sam the life and times of the greatest quarterback ever to play the game / по Holley, Joe

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Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation : Forugh Farrokhzad and Sylvia Plath / по Rahimi Bahmany, Leila

Оглавление: “...Note continued: The Mirror as the Intersection of Academic and Artistic Talent -- The Mirror as a Weapon of the Femme Fatale -- The Childless Woman: A Narcissist -- The Gigolo: Male Narcissism -- Woman as a Mirror of Male Ego -- Mother in the Mirror -- The Monstrous Degeneration Lurking in the Mirror -- The Promising Mirror -- Child as a Mirror -- The Mirror Image Being Identical with the Self -- The Appalling Otherness of the Specular Self....”
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Suing the gun industry a battle at the crossroads of gun control and mass torts /

Оглавление: “...Kates -- The American gun industry : designing and marketing increasingly lethal weapons / Tom Diaz -- A cultural critique of gun litigation / Dan M. ...”
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Irwin and Rippe's intensive care medicine /

Оглавление: “...Critical care consequences of weapons (or agents) of mass destruction....”
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Mass Mobilization in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1945–1960 / по Holcombe, Alec

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A new division of labor meeting America's security challenges beyond Iraq /

Оглавление: “...-- Conflict in the post Post-Cold War world -- Terrorism and insurgency -- The new nuclear equation -- The rise of China -- Welcome to the post Post-Cold War world -- Toward a new division of labor -- Countering terrorists and insurgent groups abroad -- Supporting new democracies -- Deterring and defeating regional adversaries -- Dissuading military competition in Asia -- Defending the homeland -- Countering the proliferation of nuclear weapons -- Setting aggregate levels of capability -- Implications for forces and posture -- What will it mean to be joint? ...”
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The United Nations and nuclear orders

Оглавление: “...United Nations sanctions and nuclear weapons / George A. Lopez and David Cortright -- The use of force / Ian Johnstone -- Verification and compliance / Harald Müller -- Codification and legal issues / Lori Fisler Damrosch -- pt. 3. ...”
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The unfinished war Korea / по Lee, Bong

Оглавление: “...Thus it began: Korea, the hermit kingdom ; Korean nationalists -- The Lee family under Japanese occupation: out of the frying pan, into the fire, World War II --The Russians are coming: Kim Il Sung makes an entrance -- Americans in South Korea -- North Koreans discover communism -- Chaos in South Korea: MacArthur in Japan -- Prelude to a hot war -- On a rainy Sunday across the 38th parallel: reactions of Washington -- The ROK army on the brink of disintegration: MacArthur in Suwon ; Tactical errors all around -- An ugly war -- The first hundred days -- Mao's thought in Beijing -- The Inchon landing and its aftermath -- Chinese traps -- A brand new ball game --Refugee stories: the plight of refugees and massacres of innocent civilians -- An old soldier just fades away, a new one steps in -- The way we survived the war -- A talking war -- The tortuous path to armistice agreement -- South Korea after the ceasefire: two schoolgirls -- North Korea now -- Old war, new crisis: the nuclear weapons developement program ; the sunshine policy ; military provocations ; what next....”
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International security and war politics and grand strategy in the 21st century /

Оглавление: “...Lonsdale -- The re-politicization of war and violent conflict : the world powers are striking back / Andreas Herberg-Rothe -- The role of nuclear weapons in contemporary strategic thought / John Baylis -- Star wars revisited : the Bush-administration's plans on missile defense and its impact on strategic thinking / Alexander Bitter -- Debating the revolution in military affairs : options and implications for small and medium military organisations / Bernard F.W. ...”
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North Korea the politics of regime survival /

Оглавление: “...Kenneth Quinones -- North Korea's weapons of mass destruction / Larry A. Niksch -- North Korea's economic crisis, reforms, and policy implications / Dick K. ...”
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