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UNINA9910783094703321 |
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Autore |
Shoch James |
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Trading blows [[electronic resource] ] : party competition and U.S. trade policy in a globalizing era / / James Shoch |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2001 |
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979-88-908735-4-5 |
0-8078-7531-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (400 p.) |
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Free trade - Political aspects - United States |
Political parties - United States |
United States Commercial policy |
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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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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 |
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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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UNINA9910969926503321 |
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Autore |
Gompert David C |
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War by other means : building complete and balanced capabilities for counterinsurgency / / David C. Gompert and John Gordon IV ; with Adam Grissom ... [et al.] |
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Santa Monica, CA, : Rand Corp., 2008 |
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1-281-73666-X |
9786611736668 |
0-8330-4583-0 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (519 p.) |
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Collana |
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Rand counterinsurgency study ; ; final report |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Counterinsurgency - United States |
Insurgency |
Terrorism - Prevention |
Institution building - Government policy - United States |
Islamic fundamentalism - Political aspects |
Security, International - 21st century |
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United States Foreign relations 2001-2009 |
United States Military policy 21st century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-453). |
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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 - |
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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 |
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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 |
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