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UNINA9910461342703321 |
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Bird Tim <1962-> |
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Afghanistan [[electronic resource] ] : how the West lost its way / / Tim Bird and Alex Marshall |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2011 |
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1-283-15057-3 |
9786613150578 |
0-300-15458-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (310 p.) |
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MarshallAlex <1976 Nov. 2-> |
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Afghan War, 2001-2021 |
Strategy |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-298) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. THE GREAT ENIGMA: Afghanistan in historical context -- CHAPTER TWO. 9/11 AND THE RESPONSE, 11-25 SEPTEMBER 2001 -- CHAPTER THREE. 'BOOTS ON THE GROUND': From the arrival of the CIA to the emergency Loya Jirga, 26 September 2001-June 2002 -- CHAPTER FOUR. 'TAKING THE EYE OFF THE BALL?' THE ROOTS OF TALIBAN REVIVAL IN AFGHANISTAN, 2002-05 -- CHAPTER FIVE. RETURN TO THE 'FORGOTTEN WAR', 2006-08 -- CHAPTER SIX. THE PAKISTAN PROBLEM -- CHAPTER SEVEN. SILVER BULLETS AND THE SEARCH FOR AN EXIT, 2009-11 -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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In October 2001, NATO forces invaded Afghanistan. Their initial aim, to topple the Taliban regime and replace it with a more democratic government aligned to Western interests, was swiftly achieved. However, stabilizing the country in the ensuing years has proven much more difficult. Despite billions of dollars in aid and military expenditure, Afghanistan remains a nation riddled with warlords, the world's major heroin producer, and the site of a seemingly endless conflict between Islamist militants and NATO forces.In this timely and important book, Tim Bird and Alex Marshall offer a panoramic view of |
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international involvement in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2011. Tackling the subject matter as a whole, Bird and Marshall weave together analysis of military strategy, regional context, aid policy, the Afghan government, and the many disagreements between and within the Western powers involved in the intervention. Given the complicating factors of the heroin trade, unwelcoming terrain, and precarious relations with Pakistan, the authors acknowledge the ways in which Afghanistan has presented unique challenges for its foreign invaders. Ultimately, however, they argue that the international community has failed in its self-imposed effort to solve Afghanistan's problems and that there are broader lessons to be learned from their struggle, particularly in terms of counterinsurgency and the ever-complicated work of "nation-building." The overarching feature of the intervention, they argue, has been an absence of strategic clarity and coherence. |
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UNINA9910492152103321 |
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Autore |
Braun Philipp |
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(In-)Stability of Differential Inclusions : Notions, Equivalences, and Lyapunov-like Characterizations / / by Philipp Braun, Lars Grüne, Christopher M. Kellett |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021 |
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[1st ed. 2021.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (123 pages) |
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SpringerBriefs in Mathematics, , 2191-8201 |
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1 Introduction -- 2 Mathematical Setting & Motivation -- 3 Strong (in)stability of differential inclusions & Lyapunov characterizations -- 4 Weak (in)stability of differential inclusions & Lyapunov characterizations -- 5 Outlook & Further Topics -- 6 Proofs of the Main Results -- 7 Auxiliary results -- 8 Conclusions. |
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Lyapunov methods have been and are still one of the main tools to |
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analyze the stability properties of dynamical systems. In this monograph, Lyapunov results characterizing the stability and stability of the origin of differential inclusions are reviewed. To characterize instability and destabilizability, Lyapunov-like functions, called Chetaev and control Chetaev functions in the monograph, are introduced. Based on their definition and by mirroring existing results on stability, analogue results for instability are derived. Moreover, by looking at the dynamics of a differential inclusion in backward time, similarities and differences between stability of the origin in forward time and instability in backward time, and vice versa, are discussed. Similarly, the invariance of the stability and instability properties of the equilibria of differential equations with respect to scaling are summarized. As a final result, ideas combining control Lyapunov and control Chetaev functions to simultaneously guarantee stability, i.e., convergence, and instability, i.e., avoidance, are outlined. The work is addressed at researchers working in control as well as graduate students in control engineering and applied mathematics. |
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