Isolationism reconfigured [[electronic resource] ] : American foreign policy for a new century / / Eric A. Nordlinger

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459863103321
• Autore: Nordlinger Eric A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1995
• ISBN: 1-4008-0574-0; 1-4008-0573-2; 1-282-75231-6; 1-4008-1281-X; 9786612752315; 1-4008-2181-9
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (346 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.73/009/049
• Soggetti: Isolationism - United States; Electronic books.; United States Foreign relations 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. [279]-318) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword and Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER I. Introduction -- PART ONE: America's Security -- Chapter II. A NATIONAL STRATEGY: CONTEMPORARY CONTOURS AND THE HISTORICAL RECORD -- Chapter III. AMERICA'S STRATEGIC IMMUNITY -- Chapter IV. TAILORING POLICIES TO INTENTIONS: PROBLEMATICS AND HAZARDS -- Chapter V. MAXIMIZING DETERRENCE, DEFENSE, AND ECONOMIC SECURITY -- Chapter VI. MAXIMIZING CONCILIATION: REASSURING THE CHALLENGER -- Chapter VII. MINIMIZING STRATEGIC MISMANAGEMENT: AVOIDING INADVERTENT SECURITY DEFLATIONS -- PART TWO: Beyond the Security Realm -- Chapter VIII. AMERICA'S INTERNATIONAL IDEALS -- Chapter IX. THE NATIONAL WELFARE -- Chapter X. LIBERAL, CONSTITUTIONAL, AND LEGAL IDEALS -- Chapter XI. AN AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY -- NOTES -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This iconoclastic and fundamental work, Eric Nordlinger's last, advocates a new variant of isolationism, a "national strategy" confining U.S. military actions largely to North America and to neighboring sea-; and air- lanes but encouraging international activism and engagement in nonsecurity realms. In Nordlinger's view, disengaging from security commitments on distant shores would liberate the United States to use its resources and decision-making powers to act more effectively abroad in matters of economic policy and human rights. A national strategy would then become a powerful new method of encouraging international ideals of democracy, and isolationism would be freed of its previous associations with appeasement, weakness, economic protectionism, and self-serving nationalism. Nordlinger draws on the recent historical record to show that a national strategy would have lessened the perils of earlier decades, including those of the Cold War. While real dangers did exist during this period, engaged strategies, such as containment, too often exacerbated them. The United States could have effectively and far less expensively helped to deter Communist aggression in Europe and Asia by encouraging other nations to make larger investments in their own protection. Marshaling impressive empirical evidence in defense of a controversial position, this final work by a leading scholar of international affairs is essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and lay readers alike.

Advanced Materials : Proceedings of the International Conference on “Physics and Mechanics of New Materials and Their Applications”, PHENMA 2019 / / edited by Ivan A. Parinov, Shun-Hsyung Chang, Banh Tien Long

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910410034703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020
• ISBN: 3-030-45120-8
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2020.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (628 pages)
• Collana: Springer Proceedings in Materials, , 2662-317X ; ; 6
• Disciplina: 620.11
• Soggetti: Building materials; Nanoscience; Electrochemistry; Semiconductors; Microtechnology; Microelectromechanical systems; Ceramic materials; Structural Materials; Nanophysics; Microsystems and MEMS; Ceramics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Influence of Composition and Structure of Pt-Based Electrocatalysts on Their Durability in Different Conditions of Stress-Test -- Investigation of the Effect of Different Organic Additives on Morphology and Electrocatalytic Activity of Platinum Nanomaterials towards Oxygen Reduction Reactions -- Investigation of the Effect of Different Organic Additives on Morphology and Electrocatalytic Activity of Platinum Nanomaterials towards Oxygen Reduction Reactions -- Morphology and Structure of Carbon Nanoparticles Generated from Graphite Nitrate Co-intercalation Compound. Effect of Sonication Regime.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents selected peer-reviewed contributions from the 2019 International Conference on “Physics and Mechanics of New Materials and Their Applications”, PHENMA 2019 (Hanoi, Vietnam, 7–10 November, 2019), divided into four scientific themes: processing techniques, physics, mechanics, and applications of advanced materials. The book describes a broad spectrum of promising nanostructures, crystals, materials and composites with special properties. It presents nanotechnology approaches, modern environmentally friendly techniques and physical-chemical and mechanical studies of the structural-sensitive and physical–mechanical properties of materials. The obtained results are based on new achievements in material sciences and computational approaches, methods and algorithms (in particular, finite-element and finite-difference modeling) applied to the solution of different technological, mechanical and physical problems. The obtained results have a significant interest for theory,modeling and test of advanced materials. Other results are devoted to promising devices demonstrating high accuracy, longevity and new opportunities to work effectively under critical temperatures and high pressures, in aggressive media, etc. These devices demonstrate improved comparative characteristics, caused by developed materials and composites, allowing investigation of physio-mechanical processes and phenomena based on scientific and technological progress.