1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451714403321

Autore

Bailey Anne C

Titolo

African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade [[electronic resource] ] : Beyond the Silence and the Shame / / Anne C. Bailey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, MA, USA, : Beacon Press, 2005

Beacon Press

ISBN

1-299-56285-X

0-8070-5519-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Disciplina

306.3/62/096

Soggetti

Slave trade - Africa, West - History

Slave trade - America - History

Slave trade - Ghana - History

Anlo (African people) - Social conditions

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Discrimination & Race Relations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279) and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784977503321

Autore

Lia Brynjar

Titolo

Globalisation and the future of terrorism [[electronic resource] ] : patterns and predictions / / Brynjar Lia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005

ISBN

1-135-77527-3

1-281-15764-3

9786611157647

0-203-48889-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (616 p.)

Collana

Contemporary security studies

Disciplina

303.6/25

Soggetti

Terrorism and globalization

Terrorism - Forecasting

International relations

World politics - 1989-

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 (p. 244-250) and index.

Nota di contenuto

GLOBALISATION AND THE FUTURE OF TERRORISM; CONTEMPORARY SECURITY STUDIES; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; Figures; Tables; Boxes; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 INTRODUCTION; Towards a framework for predicting future patterns of terrorism; Defining terrorism; Causes of terrorism; 2 GLOBALISATION AND ARMED CONFLICTS; The future of globalisation; The impact of globalisation; Possible implications for terrorism; The future of armed conflicts; The rise of internationalised internal conflicts; Illegitimate states, legitimate revolts; Al-Qaida and the rise of global civil wars

Beyond war: the globalised political economy of conflictThe emergence of a global guerrilla state authority?; Conclusion; 3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND POLITICS; The world order; Consequences for the future of terrorism; Weapons of mass destruction; Nuclear proliferation risks; CBW-proliferation risks; Democratisation processes and the spread of illiberal democracies; Trends in state formation and state failure; State formation; Failed and collapsed states; Trends in peacekeeping and military interventions; Peacekeeping; Military



interventions; Islamist responses to Western interventions

Implications for terrorismTrends in multilateralism; Implications for terrorism; The proliferation of non-governmental organisations; Implications for terrorism; 4 THE GLOBAL MARKET ECONOMY; Trends in economic inequality; Implications for terrorism; Powerless politicians? Powerful businesses?; The rise of transnational corporations; TNCs and terrorism; Privatising policing and warfare; Implications for terrorists and insurgent groups; The globalisation of organised crime; Drug trade, human-trafficking, alien smuggling; Trafficking in explosives; Changing patterns, underlying causes

Implications for transnational terrorismMiddle East petroleum and the future of the energy trade; Future trends in petroleum energy dependence; Implications for terrorism; 5 THE DEMOGRAPHIC FACTOR; Demographic trends; Implications for terrorism; The immigration dilemma; Migration and ethno-demographic changes; Hate crimes, racial riots and ethnic terrorism; Diasporas, overseas insurgencies and transnational terrorism; Human-smuggling and transnational terrorism; 6 IDEOLOGICAL SHIFTS; The future landscape of extremist ideologies; A resurgent left?; The challenge of Islamism and al-Qaidaism

The new religious extremismTowards a diffuse and rapidly changing ideological landscape; Possible implications for terrorism; 7 OUR TECHNOLOGICAL FUTURE; Terrorism and technology; The future potentials of cyberterrorism: computers as weapons; Information technologies in conventional terrorism; The globalisation of empowering technologies; Dual-use technology and improvised weapons; New interactive mass-media technologies; Counter-terrorist technologies; Possible impact on terrorism patterns; 8 CONCLUSION; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing upon new research and methods outside the traditional focus, and by taking both a theoretical approach and a new practical predictive perspective, Brynjar Lia delivers a fresh and fascinating contribution to terrorism studies. Globalisation and the Future of Terrorism shows us that while predicting terrorism is a highly speculative business, there are ways of identifying certain long-term causes, driving forces and their links with society. Terrorists are usually integral players in local and sometimes global politics. Hence, when the local, regional and international contexts change,



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910346690203321

Autore

Lavernaro Felice

Titolo

Advanced Numerical Methods in Applied Sciences / Felice Lavernaro, Luigi Brugnano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019

Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI, , 2019

ISBN

9783038976677

3038976679

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (306 p.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The use of scientific computing tools is currently customary for solving problems at several complexity levels in Applied Sciences. The great need for reliable software in the scientific community conveys a continuous stimulus to develop new and better performing numerical methods that are able to grasp the particular features of the problem at hand. This has been the case for many different settings of numerical analysis, and this Special Issue aims at covering some important developments in various areas of application.