1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910466241403321

Titolo

Middle East monarchies : the challenge of modernity / / edited by Joseph Kostiner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colorado : , : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , 2000

ISBN

1-62637-393-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Disciplina

321/.6/0956

Soggetti

Monarchy - Middle East

Electronic books.

Middle East Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page ; Copyright page ; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1- Introduction; The ""King's Dilemma"" ; ""Monarchies Resilience"" ; Note ; Part 1- Context ; Chapter 2- Monarchy in the Middle East ; Bibliographical Note ; Notes ; Chapter 3- Post-Ottoman Arab Monarchies: Old Bottles, New Labels?; Notes ; Chapter 4- Why Did Arab Monarchies Fall? An Analysis of Old and New Explanations; Historical Rootedness and the Legitimacy Question ; Foreign Policy Issues Versus Domestic Issues ; State, Class, and Leadership Variables ; Inevitability and the Question of Leadership ; Conclusion ; Notes

Chapter 5- Dynasts and Nationalists: Why Monarchies SurviveState-Formation and the Monarchs ; Nation-Building and the Monarchs ; The Mandate to Rule: The Divine Right of the Family ; Defining Clients: Social Bases of Rule ; Mythmaking: The Invention of Tradition ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Chapter 6- Patterns of Monarchy in the Middle East; Notes ; Part 2- Case Studies ; Chapter 7- The Jordanian Monarchy: The Hashemite Success Story; From Anarchy to Monarchy ; Legitimacy and the Restrained Use of Force ; Contending with the Islamists and Socioeconomic Crisis ; Conclusion ; Notes

Chapter 8- The Moroccan Monarchy: A Political System in Quest of a New EquilibriumThe Functioning of Monarchy ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Chapter 9- State-Formation and the Saudi Monarchy; State-Building ; Faysal's Order ; The Challenges to Faysal's Order ; The Monarchy's



Response ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Chapter 10- The Kuwaiti Royal Family in the Postliberation Period: Reinstitutionalizing the "FirstAmong Equals" System in Kuwait; The Restoration Movement: 1986-1990 ; The Effects of the Iraqi Invasion ; Conclusion ; Notes

Chapter 11- The Persistence of Monarchy in the Arabian Peninsula: A Comparative AnalysisTheoretical Perspectives on Monarchy in the Middle East ; ""Traditionalism"" and Monarchy in Arabia ; Regional Security, Oil, and the Fate of Arabian Monarchies ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Chapter 12- The Throne in the Sultanate of Oman; The Al-Bu Sa'id in Power ; Sayyid Sa'id Bin Taymur ; Sultan Qabus ; The Monarchy and the Modern State ; The Postcoup Government: Transforming Monarchical Authority ; The Sultanate's Emerging Institutional Framework ; The Majlis Al-Shura; Trends ; Notes

Chapter 13- The Persian Monarchy and the Islamic RepublicThe Legacy of the Past: The Safavids and Qajar Heritage ; Khomeini's Early Thought: Opposition to the Shah ; Khomeini's Revolutionary Approach: Velayat-e Faqih ; The Origins of Revolutionary Thought ; The Ayatollahs in Action ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Part 3- Challenges ; Chapter 14- Gulf Monarchies as Rentier States: The Nationalization Policies of the Labor Force; Strategy for Socioeconomic Development in the Gulf Oil Monarchies ; Implementation of the Strategy: Importing Foreign Workers

Table 14.1 Gulf Monarchies: National and Nonnational Workforce, 1975-1990



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910231248503321

Autore

Joonhong Ahn

Titolo

Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety [[electronic resource] ] : From Accident Mitigation to Resilient Society Facing Extreme Situations / / edited by Joonhong Ahn, Franck Guarnieri, Kazuo Furuta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Springer Nature, 2017

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-58768-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 356 p. 62 illus., 48 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

363.7

Soggetti

Radiation protection

Radiation—Safety measures

Nuclear energy

Environmental sciences

Environmental policy

Environmental economics

Engineering ethics

Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection

Nuclear Energy

Environmental Science and Engineering

Environmental Policy

Environmental Economics

Engineering Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Part I: What are damages in Nuclear Accidents?- Part II: Measurement of Damages -- Part III: Barriers against Transition into Resilience -- Part IV: Research questions for developing knowledge toward transition into resilience -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book summarizes presentations and discussions from the two-day international workshop held at UC Berkeley in March 2015, and derives



questions to be addressed in multi-disciplinary research toward a new paradigm of nuclear safety. The consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in March 2011 have fuelled the debate on nuclear safety: while there were no casualties due to radiation, there was substantial damage to local communities. The lack of common understanding of the basics of environmental and radiological sciences has made it difficult for stakeholders to develop effective strategies to accelerate recovery, and this is compounded by a lack of effective decision-making due to the eroded public trust in the government and operators. Recognizing that making a society resilient and achieving higher levels of saf ety relies on public participation in and feedback on decision-making, the book focuses on risk perception and mitigation in its discussion of the development of resilient communities.