1.

Record Nr.

UNIPARTHENOPE000028587

Autore

Benedetto, Sergio

Titolo

Principles of digital transmission : with wireless applications / Sergio Benedetto and Ezio Biglieri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York [etc.] : Kluwer, c1999 : Plenum

Titolo uniforme

Principles of digital transmission : with wireless applications

ISBN

0306457539

9780306457531

Descrizione fisica

XVII, 855 p. ; 25 cm.

Collana

Information technology: transmission, processing and storage

Altri autori (Persone)

Biglieri, Ezio

Disciplina

621.382

Collocazione

P1 621-P/5

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA990006070580203316

Autore

WASILEWSKA, Wanda

Titolo

L'arcobaleno : romanzo / Wanda Wasilewska

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Napoli : Fiorentino, stampa 1944

Descrizione fisica

201 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Collana di scrittori sovietici

Disciplina

891.85373

Collocazione

XV.9.M. 1031

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452531203321

Titolo

American democracy promotion in the changing Middle East : from Bush to Obama / / edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh. [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-07491-2

1-283-89459-9

1-135-11706-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (181 p.)

Collana

Durham modern Middle East and Islamic world series ; ; 27

Altri autori (Persone)

AkbarzadehShahram

Disciplina

327.1/1

Soggetti

Democratization - Government policy - United States

Electronic books.

United States Foreign relations Middle East

Middle East Foreign relations United States

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

Cover; American Democracy Promotion in the Changing Middle East: From Bush to Obama; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgement; 1 Democracy promotion: An unfortunate legacy; 2 'Democratisation', religious extremism, fragile states, and insurgencies: Bush's legacies to Obama and the challenges ahead; 3 The 'Americanization' of democratic theory: Some lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan; 4 Political reconstruction, democracy and power-sharing in Afghanistan and Iraq; 5 Winning hearts and minds: US promotion of a democratic Islam

6 Energy security and democracy promotion in the Middle East: A Bush-Obama continuum?7 Iraq: Elite fragmentation, Islam and democracy; 8 Mugged by reality: Democracy promotion and Egyptian political reform during the Bush era, and the options for President Obama; 9 Good governance and air strikes: America's awkward toolkit in Yemen; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The recent ""Arab spring"", with its popular uprisings in many Arab countries, has exposed the ambiguity at the heart of American promotion of democracy in the Middle East. The US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were packaged as democracy promotion, as heralding the beginning of a new phase in the politics of the Middle East when democracy would replace authoritarian regimes. Many of these authoritarian regimes, however, were sustained by US support. The recent popular uprisings threaten to bring democracy without promotion by the US, and threaten to overthrow regimes previously supported