1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000497390403321

Autore

International workshop on electric charges in dielectrics : <1978

Titolo

Charge storage, charge transport and electrostatics with their applications / edited by Yasaku Wada, M. M Perlman, Hiroshi Kokado

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tokyo : Kodansha

Amsterdam : Elsevier scientific publishing, 1979

ISBN

0-444-99769-5

Descrizione fisica

441 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Collana

Studies in electrical and electronic engineering ; 2

Disciplina

537.2

Locazione

DINEL

Collocazione

10 PRO 372

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA990006140020403321

Autore

Atteberry, G.

Titolo

Introduction to Social Science a Survey of Social Problems : abridged One-Volume Edition / G. Atteberry, J. Auble, E. Hunt ; foreword by Louis Wirth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : The MacMillan Company, 1951

Descrizione fisica

XII,, 787 p. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

300

Locazione

FGBC

Collocazione

I N 347

Lingua di pubblicazione

Non definito

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910140654503321

Titolo

The Harvard political review

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass. : , : Harvard political review, , 1969-

Cambridge, MA : , : Institute of Politics

Disciplina

320.473/049

Soggetti

Political science

Politics and government

Periodicals.

United States Politics and government Periodicals

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

"A journal of fact and opinion."



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910634039503321

Autore

Cusumano Eugenio

Titolo

Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization : The Political Cost-Effectiveness of Outsourcing Security / / by Eugenio Cusumano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031164231

3031164237

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 pages)

Disciplina

658.47

355.35

Soggetti

Security, International

International Security Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Military Privatization and State Power in Historical Perspective -- 3. Domestic Political Constraints and Contractor Support to Military Operations: a new Theoretical Framework -- 4. Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization in the United States -- 5. Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization in the United Kingdom -- 6. Military Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization in Italy -- 7. Effectiveness, Norms, and Military Cultures: Assessing Mobilization Constraints against Competing Explanations -- 8. Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book investigates the connection between tightening mobilization constraints and the use of PMSCs in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Italy. Drawing on neoclassical realism and institutionalist theory, it conceptualizes democracies’ use of private military and security companies (PMSCs) as an attempt to circumvent the tightening constraints on the mobilization of military power. The use of private military contractors is less subjected to parliamentary restrictions and less visible to public opinion than the deployment of soldiers. Rather than cheaper in financial terms, PMSCs are therefore politically cost-effective, as they enable decision-makers to minimize the institutional obstacles on conducting military operations and the electoral costs



attached thereto. The need to reduce the ex ante hurdles and the ex post costs of military deployments fills the blind spots of alternative explanations for the use of PMSCs based on effectiveness, ideology, and organizational interests. Eugenio Cusumano is Associate Professor of political science at the University of Messina, Italy.