Unanswered threats [[electronic resource] ] : political constraints on the balance of power / / Randall L. Schweller

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458712403321
• Autore: Schweller Randall L
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2008, c2006
• ISBN: 1-282-96497-6; 9786612964978; 1-4008-3785-5
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (197 p.)
• Collana: Princeton studies in international history and politics
• Disciplina: 327.1/12
• Soggetti: Balance of power - History; Balance of power; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Second printing, and first paperback printing, 2008.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Balance of Power and the Puzzle of Underbalancing Behavior -- Chapter 1. Prudence in Managing Changes in the Balance of Power -- Chapter 2. A Theory of Underbalancing: A Neoclassical Realist Explanation -- Chapter 3. Great-Power Case Studies: Interwar France and Britain, and France, 1877-1913 -- Chapter 4. Small-Power Case Studies: Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, and the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-1870 -- Chapter 5. Why Are States So Timid? State Coherence and Expansion in the Age of Mass Politics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Why have states throughout history regularly underestimated dangers to their survival? Why have some states been able to mobilize their material resources effectively to balance against threats, while others have not been able to do so? The phenomenon of "underbalancing" is a common but woefully underexamined behavior in international politics. Underbalancing occurs when states fail to recognize dangerous threats, choose not to react to them, or respond in paltry and imprudent ways. It is a response that directly contradicts the core prediction of structural realism's balance-of-power theory--that states motivated to survive as autonomous entities are coherent actors that, when ; confronted by dangerous threats, act to restore the disrupted balance by creating alliances or increasing their military capabilities, or, in some cases, a combination of both. Consistent with the new wave of neoclassical realist research, Unanswered Threats offers a theory of underbalancing based on four domestic-level variables--elite consensus, elite cohesion, social cohesion, and regime/government vulnerability--that channel, mediate, and redirect policy responses to external pressures and incentives. The theory yields five causal schemes for underbalancing behavior, which are tested against the cases of interwar Britain and France, France from 1877 to 1913, and the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870) that pitted tiny Paraguay against Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. Randall Schweller concludes that those most likely to underbalance are incoherent, fragmented states whose elites are constrained by political considerations.

Blow-up theory for elliptic PDEs in Riemannian geometry [[electronic resource] /] / Olivier Druet, Emmanuel Hebey, Frédéric Robert

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778097803321
• Autore: Druet Olivier <1976->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2004
• ISBN: 1-282-08723-1; 1-282-93537-2; 9786612935374; 9786612087233; 1-4008-2616-0
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (227 p.)
• Collana: Mathematical Notes ; ; 45
• Classificazione: 31.45
• Altri autori (Persone): HebeyEmmanuel <1964->; RobertFrédéric <1974->
• Disciplina: 515/.353
• Soggetti: Calculus of variations; Differential equations, Nonlinear; Geometry, Riemannian
• 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. [213]-218).
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Background Material -- Chapter 2. The Model Equations -- Chapter 3. Blow-up Theory in Sobolev Spaces -- Chapter 4. Exhaustion and Weak Pointwise Estimates -- Chapter 5. Asymptotics When the Energy Is of Minimal Type -- Chapter 6. Asymptotics When the Energy Is Arbitrary -- Appendix A. The Green's Function on Compact Manifolds -- Appendix B. Coercivity Is a Necessary Condition -- Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: Elliptic equations of critical Sobolev growth have been the target of investigation for decades because they have proved to be of great importance in analysis, geometry, and physics. The equations studied here are of the well-known Yamabe type. They involve Schrödinger operators on the left hand side and a critical nonlinearity on the right hand side. A significant development in the study of such equations occurred in the 1980's. It was discovered that the sequence splits into a solution of the limit equation--a finite sum of bubbles--and a rest that converges strongly to zero in the Sobolev space consisting of square integrable functions whose gradient is also square integrable. This splitting is known as the integral theory for blow-up. In this book, the authors develop the pointwise theory for blow-up. They introduce new ideas and methods that lead to sharp pointwise estimates. These estimates have important applications when dealing with sharp constant problems (a case where the energy is minimal) and compactness results (a case where the energy is arbitrarily large). The authors carefully and thoroughly describe pointwise behavior when the energy is arbitrary. Intended to be as self-contained as possible, this accessible book will interest graduate students and researchers in a range of mathematical fields.