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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783094703321

Autore

Shoch James

Titolo

Trading blows [[electronic resource] ] : party competition and U.S. trade policy in a globalizing era / / James Shoch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2001

ISBN

979-88-908735-4-5

0-8078-7531-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Disciplina

382/.3/0973

Soggetti

Free trade - Political aspects - United States

Political parties - United States

United States Commercial policy

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

Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1.Parties and Trade Policy; 2.Trade Policy and Party Politics; 3.The First Reagan Administration; 4.Partisanship Heats Up; 5.The One-hundredth Congress; 6.The Bush Years; 7.Clinton's First Two Years in Office; 8.Trade Liberalization Grinds to a Halt, 1995-1998; 9.Trade Liberalization Set Back Again, Then Renewed?; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

For the past two decades, trade policy has been high on the American political agenda, thanks to the growing integration of the United States into the global economy and the wealth of debate this development has sparked. Although scholars have explored many aspects of U.S. trade policy, there has been little study of the role played by party politics. With Trading Blows, James Shoch fills that gap. Shoch offers detailed case studies of almost all of the major trade issues of the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton eras, including administrative and legislative efforts to curb auto, steel,



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969926503321

Autore

Gompert David C

Titolo

War by other means : building complete and balanced capabilities for counterinsurgency / / David C. Gompert and John Gordon IV ; with Adam Grissom ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Monica, CA, : Rand Corp., 2008

ISBN

1-281-73666-X

9786611736668

0-8330-4583-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (519 p.)

Collana

Rand counterinsurgency study ; ; final report

Altri autori (Persone)

GordonJohn <1956->

Disciplina

355.02/180973

Soggetti

Counterinsurgency - United States

Insurgency

Terrorism - Prevention

Institution building - Government policy - United States

Islamic fundamentalism - Political aspects

Security, International - 21st century

Strategy

United States Foreign relations 2001-2009

United States Military policy 21st century

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. 445-453).

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One - Defining the Problem; Chapter Two - Framing the Problem; Chapter Three - Countering Type III Insurgency; Chapter Four - Overview of Capabilities Needed to CounterType III Insurgency; Chapter Five - Civil Capabilities; Chapter Six - Information Capabilities; Chapter Seven - Perception and Cognition; Chapter Eight - General Security Capabilities; Chapter Nine - Local Security Capabilities; Chapter Ten - U.S. Security Capabilities; Chapter Eleven - Multilateral Counterinsurgency

Chapter Twelve - Investment PrioritiesChapter Thirteen - Organization: Unsettled Structures forUnsettled Times; Chapter Fourteen -



Implications and Recommendations; Appendix A - Eighty-Nine Insurgencies: Outcomes and Endings; Appendix B - Multilateral COIN Capacity; Appendix C - Indicators and Warnings; Appendix D - Ground-Force Tasks and Improvements; About the RAND COIN Team; Works Cited

Sommario/riassunto

The difficulties encountered by the United States in securing Iraq and Afghanistan despite years of effort and staggering costs raises the central question of the RAND Counterinsurgency Study: How should the United States improve its capabilities to counter insurgencies, particularly those that are heavily influenced by transnational terrorist movements and thus linked into a global jihadist network? This capstone volume to the study draws on other reports in the series as well as an examination of 89 insurgencies since World War II, an analysis of the new challenges posed by what is becoming