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UNINA9910778960003321 |
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Autore |
Goemans H. E (Hein Erich), <1957-> |
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Titolo |
War and punishment [[electronic resource] ] : the causes of war termination and the First World War / / H.E. Goemans |
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Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2000 |
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1-4008-1611-4 |
1-4008-1429-4 |
1-283-38012-9 |
9786613380128 |
1-4008-2395-1 |
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[Core Textbook] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (366 p.) |
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Princeton studies in international history and politics |
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Peace |
World War, 1914-1918 - Armistices |
Peace treaties |
Capitulations, Military |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-350) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. A THEORY OF WAR TERMINATION -- 3. LARGE N: THE FATE OF LEADERS AND THE DURATION OF WAR -- 4. GERMANY -- 5. RUSSIA -- 6. FRANCE -- 7. GREAT BRITAIN -- 8. THE TERMINATION OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR, I: 1914-1917 -- 9. THE TERMINATION OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR, II: 1918 -- 10. CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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What makes wars drag on and why do they end when they do? Here H. E. Goemans brings theoretical rigor and empirical depth to a long-standing question of securities studies. He explores how various government leaders assess the cost of war in terms of domestic politics and their own postwar fates. Goemans first develops the argument that two sides will wage war until both gain sufficient knowledge of the other's strengths and weaknesses so as to agree on the probable outcome of continued war. Yet the incentives that motivate leaders to then terminate war, Goemans maintains, can vary greatly depending on |
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the type of government they represent. The author looks at democracies, dictatorships, and mixed regimes and compares the willingness among leaders to back out of wars or risk the costs of continued warfare. Democracies, according to Goemans, will prefer to withdraw quickly from a war they are not winning in order to appease the populace. Autocracies will do likewise so as not to be overthrown by their internal enemies. Mixed regimes, which are made up of several competing groups and which exclude a substantial proportion of the people from access to power, will likely see little risk in continuing a losing war in the hope of turning the tide. Goemans explores the conditions and the reasoning behind this "gamble for resurrection" as well as other strategies, using rational choice theory, statistical analysis, and detailed case studies of Germany, Britain, France, and Russia during World War I. In so doing, he offers a new perspective of the Great War that integrates domestic politics, international politics, and battlefield developments. |
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UNINA9910787444903321 |
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Autore |
Intondi Vincent J. |
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African Americans against the bomb : nuclear weapons, colonialism, and the black freedom movement / / Vincent J. Intondi ; designed by Bruce Lundquist |
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Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2015 |
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2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 pages) |
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Stanford Nuclear Age Series. |
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African American political activists - History - 20th century |
African Americans - Politics and government - 20th century |
Antinuclear movement - United States - History - 20th century |
Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century |
Anti-imperialist movements - United States - History - 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Response to the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- 2. “We Will Not Go Quietly into the Night”: Fighting for Peace and Freedom During the McCarthy Era -- 3. “Links in the Same Chain”: Civil Rights, Anticolonialism, and the Bomb in Africa -- 4. “Desegregation Not Disintegration”: The Black Freedom Movement, Vietnam, and Nuclear Weapons -- 5. “From Civil Rights to Human Rights”: African American Activism in the Post-Vietnam Era -- 6. A New START: Nuclear Disarmament in the Age of Obama -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Well before Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out against nuclear weapons, African Americans were protesting the Bomb. Historians have generally ignored African Americans when studying the anti-nuclear movement, yet they were some of the first citizens to protest Truman's decision to drop atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Now for the first time, African Americans Against the Bomb tells the compelling story of those black activists who fought for nuclear disarmament by connecting the nuclear issue with the fight for racial equality. Intondi shows that from early on, blacks in America saw the use of atomic bombs as a racial issue, asking why such enormous resources were being spent building nuclear arms instead of being used to improve impoverished communities. Black activists' fears that race played a role in the decision to deploy atomic bombs only increased when the U.S. threatened to use nuclear weapons in Korea in the 1950's and Vietnam a decade later. For black leftists in Popular Front groups, the nuclear issue was connected to colonialism: the U.S. obtained uranium from the Belgian controlled Congo and the French tested their nuclear weapons in the Sahara. By expanding traditional research in the history of the nuclear disarmament movement to look at black liberals, clergy, artists, musicians, and civil rights leaders, Intondi reveals the links between the black freedom movement in America and issues of global peace. From Langston Hughes through Lorraine Hansberry to President Obama, African Americans Against the Bomb offers an eye-opening account of the continuous involvement of African Americans who recognized that the rise of nuclear weapons was a threat to the civil rights of all people. |
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UNINA9910830457003321 |
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Autore |
Nair Mohan |
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Essentials of balanced scorecard [[electronic resource] /] / Mohan Nair |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, c2004 |
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1-280-34606-X |
9786610346066 |
1-118-38677-9 |
0-471-67227-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (268 p.) |
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Industrial productivity - Measurement |
Strategic planning |
Organizational effectiveness - Evaluation |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-238) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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What is Balanced Scorecard? -- From management to performance management -- Mission, vision, values : the precursor to BSC -- Six success factors to implementing Balanced Scorecard -- Success factor one : understand self -- Success factor two : understand the Balanced Scorecard learning cycle -- Success factor three : know the road map for implementation -- Success factor four : treat Balanced Scorecard as a project -- Success factor five : use technology as an enabler -- Success factor six : cascade the scorecard -- Eleven deadly sins of Balanced Scorecard -- The ultimate partnership : Balanced Scorecard and performance management. |
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Balanced scorecard is a widely recognised and accepted performance measurement tool that is currently used in thousands of organisations around the world. This book will help to implement the organisations' balanced scorecard strategies into action by defining performance objectives, measures, and targets in four linked and balanced perspectives: Financial, Customer, Internal Process, and Employee Learning and Growth.* Explains what balanced scorecard is and addresses the challenges and solutions for its implementation.* Addresses the concerns of the mid to small corporation as well as |
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