1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963061703321

Autore

Stares Paul B

Titolo

Managing instability on China's preiphery / / Paul B. Stares, ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Council on Foreign Relations, Center for Preventive Action, c2011

ISBN

0-87609-510-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (88 p.)

Disciplina

327.73051

Soggetti

National security - Asia

Geopolitics - Asia

International relations

United States Foreign relations China

China Foreign relations United States

United States Foreign relations Asia

China Foreign relations Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"September 2011".

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Paul B. Stares, Scott A. Snyder, Joshua Kurlantzick, Daniel Markey, and Evan A. Feigenbaum""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Overview""; ""Instability in North Korea and Its Impact on U. S.- China Relations""; ""Myanmar: Sources of Instability and Potential for U. S.- China Cooperation""; ""Pakistan Contingencies""; ""Central Asia Contingencies""; ""Endnotes""; ""About the Authors""

Sommario/riassunto

In comparison to the more familiar sources of friction in U.S.-China relations-notably Taiwan and Tibet-surprisingly little attention has been given to how developments along China's unstable periphery could strain and even potentially cause a serious rupture in bilateral relations. Certainly, there has been no systematic effort to examine and compare the most likely cases or to consider how the latent risks can be lessened. As a general observation, scholars and analysts in both countries tend to focus on specific subregions rather than engage in crossregional comparative assessments. With the goal of encouraging a broader assessment of potential sources of friction in U.S-China relations and how they might be mitigated, the Council on Foreign



Relations (CFR) embarked on this study, "Managing Instability on China's Periphery." Each paper considers current sources of instability, potential crisis triggers, U.S. and Chinese interests-where they converge and diverge-and policy options for preventing a major crisis and mitigating the consequences.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910952320203321

Autore

Knauer Ulrich <1942->

Titolo

Algebraic graph theory : morphisms, monoids, and matrices / / by Ulrich Knauer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter, c2011

ISBN

9786613400444

9781283400442

1283400448

9783110255096

311025509X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Collana

De Gruyter studies in mathematics ; ; 41

Classificazione

SK 890

Disciplina

511/.5

511.5

Soggetti

Graph theory

Algebraic topology

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Directed and undirected graphs -- Chapter 2. Graphs and matrices -- Chapter 3. Categories and functors -- Chapter 4. Binary graph operations -- Chapter 5. Line graph and other unary graph operations -- Chapter 6. Graphs and vector spaces -- Chapter 7. Graphs, groups and monoids -- Chapter 8. The characteristic polynomial of graphs -- Chapter 9. Graphs and monoids -- Chapter 10. Compositions, unretractivities and monoids -- Chapter 11. Cayley graphs of semigroups -- Chapter 12. Vertex transitive Cayley graphs -- Chapter 13. Embeddings of Cayley graphs - genus of semigroups -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index of



symbols

Sommario/riassunto

Graph models are extremely useful for almost all applications and applicators as they play an important role as structuring tools. They allow to model net structures - like roads, computers, telephones - instances of abstract data structures - like lists, stacks, trees - and functional or object oriented programming. In turn, graphs are models for mathematical objects, like categories and functors. This highly self-contained book about algebraic graph theory is written with a view to keep the lively and unconventional atmosphere of a spoken text to communicate the enthusiasm the author feels about this subject. The focus is on homomorphisms and endomorphisms, matrices and eigenvalues. It ends with a challenging chapter on the topological question of embeddability of Cayley graphs on surfaces.