The new public service: serving, not steering

Edition

Expanded ed.

ISBN/ISSN

9780765619983

Collation

xv, 222 p. ; 24 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

[POL-LIB-438]

Successful response starts with a map: improving geospatial support for disas…

Committee on Planning for Catastrophe: a Blueprint for Improving Geospatial Data, Tools, and Infrastructure, Mapping Science Committee, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Disaster management and preparedness

Detailing methods for preparing organizations for disasters, this book discusses tried and true tactics and areas often overlooked during the reactive and post-disaster phases. It addresses special considerations important in planning for disaster management, from chemical spills, floods, and terrorist attacks to catastrophic events.

Political participation and ethnic minorities: Chinese overseas in Malaysia, …

From New York City's Chinatown to urban Indonesia, there are fifty-five million ethnic Chinese living outside of China. Their strong sense of community, along with their considerable economic clout, makes them a compelling group with which to study immigrant political participation. Amy Freedman's empirical study examines the hows and whys of Chinese overseas political activity in three dive…

Economics of American Judaism

Demonstrates that economic analysis can deepen our understanding of the historical experience of American Jewry. The author applies the methodology of modern labor economics to examine how America's unique economic environment in the twentieth century provided a context for the ancient Jewish religion to adapt to different circumstances.

The politics of post-Suharto Indonesia

Responding to the critical need of policymakers, and practitioners for current research on Indonesia, this text focuses on four areas: the economy; religion and ethnicitiy; civil society; and the military. A concluding chapter covers the International Monetary Fund and US policy towards Indonesia.

Why not preempt? : security, law, norms and anticipatory military activities

Anticipatory military activities, both preemptive and preventive, are at the centre of American strategic doctrine. Rachel Bzostek puts forward a full understanding of why states have or have not undertaken such activities in the past in order to comprehend why states have rarely used this method.

We all lost the Cold War

Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policymakers, among them several important figures speaking for public record for the first time, Ned Lebow and Janice Stein cast new light on the effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the several confrontations arising out of the A…

Striking first : preemptive and preventive attack in U.S. national security p…

RAND Project AIR FORCE studied the post-9/11 shift in US defense policy emphasis toward preemptive and preventive attack, asking under what conditions preemptive or preventive attack is worth considering as a response to perceived threats. It considered the role such first-strike strategies are likely to play in future US national security policy.

Strategy in the missile age

Reviews the development of modern military strategy to World War II, and considers new problems and new approaches. The study was undertaken by the Rand Corporation as a part of its research program for the United States Air Force.