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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154682903321

Autore

Busch Nathan E. <1971->

Titolo

The politics of weapons inspections : assessing WMD monitoring and verification regimes / / Nathan E. Busch, Joseph F. Pilat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-5036-0162-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 pages)

Disciplina

327.1/745

Soggetti

Weapons of mass destruction

Nuclear arms control - Verification

Chemical arms control - Verification

Biological arms control - Verification

Disarmament - On-site inspection

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

What are monitoring and verification regimes? -- South Africa -- Iraq -- Libya -- Verifying global disarmament -- Applying lessons to the "difficult cases" : North Korea, Iran, and Syria -- Conclusion : strengthening monitoring and verification regimes.

Sommario/riassunto

Given recent controversies over suspected WMD programs in proliferating countries, there is an increasingly urgent need for effective monitoring and verification regimes—the international mechanisms, including on-site inspections, intended in part to clarify the status of WMD programs in suspected proliferators. Yet the strengths and limitations of these nonproliferation and arms control mechanisms remain unclear. How should these regimes best be implemented? What are the technological, political, and other limitations to these tools? What technologies and other innovations should be utilized to make these regimes most effective? How should recent developments, such as the 2015 Iran nuclear deal or Syria's declared renunciation and actual use of its chemical weapons, influence their architecture? The Politics of Weapons Inspections examines the successes, failures, and lessons that can be learned from WMD



monitoring and verification regimes in order to help determine how best to maintain and strengthen these regimes in the future. In addition to examining these regimes' technological, political, and legal contexts, Nathan E. Busch and Joseph F. Pilat reevaluate the track record of monitoring and verification in the historical cases of South Africa, Libya, and Iraq; assess the prospects of using these mechanisms in verifying arms control and disarmament; and apply the lessons learned from these cases to contemporary controversies over suspected or confirmed programs in North Korea, Iran, and Syria. Finally, they provide a forward-looking set of policy recommendations for the future.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910703445903321

Autore

McLoughlin Gerald

Titolo

Nigerian unity : in the balance / / Gerald McLoughlin, Clarence J. Bouchat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carlisle, PA : , : Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College, , 2013

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 91 pages)

Soggetti

Political stability - Nigeria

Ethnic conflict - Nigeria

Nigeria Politics and government 1960-

Nigeria Social conditions 1960-

Nigeria Economic conditions 1960-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed Aug. 13, 2013).

"June 2013."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-91).

Nota di contenuto

Nigeria's importance to the United States -- Nigeria as an entity -- Cross and crescent -- The cultures and regions -- Many peoples, many systems -- The land -- Population -- The economy -- Petroleum politics -- Corruption -- What divides can unite -- The political economy -- Fault lines -- Solutions -- Conclusion.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495785403321

Autore

Winkel Thierry

Titolo

Quinoa et quinueros : Quinua y quinueros / / Thierry Winkel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Marseille, : IRD Éditions, 2020

ISBN

2-7099-1862-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Collana

Focus

Altri autori (Persone)

SandovalGodofredo

VacherJean-Joinville

WinkelThierry

Soggetti

Economics

agriculture

Bolivie

Andes

mondialisation

développement

économie

quinoa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Au coeur des Andes, les quinueros, producteurs de quinoa des hauts plateaux de Bolivie, ne vivent pas coupés du reste du monde. En quelques années, ils ont fait d’une contrée désertique et froide la première région exportatrice de cette graine de haute valeur nutritive.  Héritiers d’une tradition séculaire conjuguant agriculture locale et échanges lointains, ils ont innové et se sont organisés pour diffuser leur production à travers tous les continents. Mais plus qu’un simple phénomène de mondialisation des échanges, c’est une authentique révolution agricole qui se joue sous nos yeux.  Pour rendre compte des transformations en cours, cet ouvrage abondamment illustré révèle les atouts, les enjeux et les défis que portent en eux la quinoa et les quinueros. Il le fait en associant intimement les hommes, la plante et le



milieu, portant un regard pénétrant sur la réalité toujours changeante des hauts plateaux andins. Au-delà des idées reçues sur un produit en vogue, ce livre cherche aussi à encourager des échanges plus solidaires et plus responsables entre producteurs et consommateurs.  En el corazón de los Andes, los quinueros, productores de quinua del Altiplano Sur de Bolivia, no viven aislados del resto del mundo. En pocos años, convirtieron una zona desértica y fría en la primera región exportadora para este grano de alto valor nutritivo.  Siendo herederos de una tradición secular que combina agricultura local con intercambios lejanos, ellos innovaron y se organizaron para difundir su producción a través de todos los continentes. Más que un simple fenómeno de globalización de los intercambios, es una auténtica revolución agrícola que se desarrolla ante nuestros ojos.  Para dar cuenta de las transformaciones que tienen lugar, este libro ricamente ilustrado revela las ventajas y también los problemas y desafíos que enfrentan la quinua y los quinueros. Lo hace relacionando estrechamente seres humanos, planta y medio ambiente, con una vista penetrante de la siempre…

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910169193703321

Autore

Kefeli Agnès Nilüfer

Titolo

Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy / / Agnes Nilüfer Kefeli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, NY, : Cornell University Press, 2014

Ithaca ; ; London : , : Cornell University Press, , 2014

ISBN

9780801454769

080145476X

9780801454776

0801454778

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Disciplina

947.00882/97

Soggetti

Apostasy - Christianity

Apostasy - Islam

Islam - Russia - History

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Apostasy, conversion, and literacy at work -- Popular knowledge of Islam on the Volga frontier -- Tailors, Sufis, and Abïstays: agents of change -- Christian martyrdom in Bolghar land -- Desacralization of Islamic knowledge and national martyrdom.

Sommario/riassunto

In the nineteenth century, the Russian Empire's Middle Volga region (today's Tatarstan) was the site of a prolonged struggle between Russian Orthodoxy and Islam, each of which sought to solidify its influence among the frontier's mix of Turkic, Finno-Ugric, and Slavic peoples. The immediate catalyst of the events that Agnes Nilufer Kefeli chronicles in Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia was the collective turn to Islam by many of the region's Krashens, the Muslim and animist Tatars who converted to Russian Orthodoxy between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.The traditional view holds that the apostates had really been Muslim all along or that their conversions had been forced by the state or undertaken voluntarily as a matter of convenience. In Kefeli's view, this argument vastly oversimplifies the complexity of a region where many participated in the religious cultures of both Islam and Orthodox Christianity and where a vibrant Krashen community has survived to the present. By analyzing Russian, Eurasian, and Central Asian ethnographic, administrative, literary, and missionary sources, Kefeli shows how traditional education, with Sufi mystical components, helped to Islamize Finno-Ugric and Turkic peoples in the Kama-Volga countryside and set the stage for the development of modernist Islam in Russia.Of particular interest is Kefeli's emphasis on the role that Tatar women (both Krashen and Muslim) played as holders and transmitters of Sufi knowledge. Today, she notes, intellectuals and mullahs in Tatarstan seek to revive both Sufi and modernist traditions to counteract new expressions of Islam and promote a purely Tatar Islam aware of its specificity in a post-Christian and secular environment.