Economic sanctions reconsidered [[electronic resource] /] / Gary Clyde Hufbauer ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451950403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, DC, : Peterson Institute for International Economics, c2007
• ISBN: 1-281-12514-8; 9786611125141; 0-88132-482-5; 1-4356-1642-1
• Edizione: [3rd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (247 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): HufbauerGary Clyde
• Disciplina: 327.1/17
• Soggetti: Economic sanctions; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Prev. ed. was entered under the authors name: Hufbauer, Gary Clyde.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter 1 Introduction""; ""A Case Study Approach""; ""Sender Countries and Their Motives""; ""Limitations on the Use of Sanctions""; ""Historical Overview""; ""Plan of the Book""; ""Appendix 1A""; ""Chapter 2 Analyzing the Utility of Sanctions""; ""Anatomy of a Sanctions Episode""; ""Framework for Analysis""; ""Foreign Policy Goals""; ""Overview of the Variables Affecting the Costs of Defiance and Compliance""; ""Chapter 3 Political Variables""; ""Modest Changes in Policy""; ""Regime Change""; ""Disrupting Military Adventures""; ""Impairing Military Potential""""Other Major Policy Changes""; ""Politics, the Cold War, and Sanctions Targets""; ""Appendix 3A""; ""Chapter 4 Economic Variables""; ""Size of Sender and Target Countries""; ""Trade Linkages""; ""Types of Sanctions""; ""Economic Health and Political Stability of Target Countries""; ""Cost of Sanctions to Targets""; ""Costs of Sanctions to Senders""; ""Appendix 4A""; ""Chapter 5 Sanctions after the Cold War""; ""Evolution of US Sanctions Policy""; ""New Targets and Goals for Sanctions""; ""The United Nations and Postwar Sanctions Policy""; ""Congressional Intervention in Sanctions Policy""""State and Local ; Government Sanctions""; ""The Incredible Lightness of ""Smart Sanctions""""; ""New Challenges for Sanctions Policy""; ""Appendix 5A""; ""Chapter 6 Conclusions and Policy Recommendations""; ""Are Sanctions Effective?""; ""Policy Recommendations: Using Sanctions More Effectively""; ""Conclusion: Look Before You Leap""; ""Appendix A Econometric Analysis of Economic Sanctions""; ""Appendix B Impact of US Economic Sanctions on Trade""; ""Appendix C Methodology Used to Estimate the Costs of Sanctions to the Target Country""; ""Bibliography""""About the Authors""; ""Index""

Control processes in multicellular organisms [[electronic resource] ] : a Ciba Foundation Symposium / / edited by G.E.W. Wolstenholme and Julie Knight

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910144670203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : J. & A. Churchill, 1970
• ISBN: 1-280-76868-1; 9786613679451; 0-470-71972-9; 0-470-71735-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (454 p.)
• Collana: Ciba Foundation symposium
• Altri autori (Persone): WolstenholmeG. E. W (Gordon Ethelbert Ward); KnightJulie
• Disciplina: 574.1/92; 574.192
• Soggetti: Biochemistry; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Held at the India International Centre, New Delhi, 17th-21st March, 1969.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTROL PROCESSES IN MULTICELLULAR ORGANISMS; Contents; Chairman's opening remarks; In vitro studies of the lac operon regulatory system; Discussion; Modulation of enzyme activities by metabolites; Discussion; The expression of genetic information: a study with hybrid animal cells; Discussion; The role of cyclic AMP in certain ; biological control systems; Discussion; Insulin and growth hormone control of protein biosynthesis; Discussion; Mechanism of action of growth hormone and oestrogens; Discussion; Hormonal control of metamorphosis; Discussion; Intercellular control of intracellular metabolic activityDiscussion; Recent studies on the feedback control of ACTH secretion, with particular reference to the role of transcortin in pituitary-thyroid-adrenocortical interactions; Discussion; The role of the thymus gland in the hormonal regulation of host resistance; Interaction between thymus cells and bone marrow cells in response to antigenic stimulation; Discussion; Anticipatory mechanisms of individuals; Discussion; Antibody structure: a molecular basis for specificity and control in the immune response; Discussion; Regulatory mechanisms of cellular proliferation in a protein-deficient organismDiscussion; Subcellular fractionation techniques in the study of chemlcal transmission in the central nervous system; Discussion; Regulation of visceral activities by the central nervous system; Discussion; Some general integrative aspects of brain functlon; Discussion; Chairman's closing remarks; Author Index; Subject Index