1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990000839170203316

Titolo

A normative approach to war : peace, war, and justice in Hugo Grotius / edited by Onuma Yasuaki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : Clarendon, 1993

ISBN

0198257090

Descrizione fisica

XVI, 421 p ; 22 cm

Disciplina

341.6

Soggetti

Grotius, Hugo - De jure belli ac pacis libri tres

Guerra - Diritto internazionale

Diritto internazionale - Metodologia

Collocazione

XXIII.1.M. 235 (IG VIII 17 563)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960276303321

Autore

Hughes John <1960->

Titolo

Islamic extremism and the war of ideas : lessons from Indonesia / / John Hughes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, c2010

ISBN

9780817911669

0817911669

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Collana

Hoover Institution Press publication ; ; no. 592

Disciplina

320.5/5709598

Soggetti

Islam and politics - Indonesia

Islamic fundamentalism - Indonesia

Indonesia Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Published in association with the Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Part I - The Rise and Fall of USIA; Part II - Indonesia: Where Democracy and Islam Coexist; Part III - Indonesia: An Example for Islam?; Part IV - What We Should Do; Notes; About the Author; About the Hoover Institution'sHerbert and Jane Dwight Working Groupon Islamism and the International Order; Index

Sommario/riassunto

John Hughes examines lessons learned from the practice of public diplomacy?especially international broadcasting?in the cold war and tells how the United States could more effectively counter extremism, promote democracy, and improve understanding of itself in the Islamic world. He offers Indonesia as a successful example of the melding of democracy, Islam, and modernity and suggests that this country and other nations where Islam and democracy coexist?such as Turkey?could play a significant role in helping thwart Islamist extremism.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910437947603321

Autore

Sobiech Cilli

Titolo

Agent-based simulation of vulnerability dynamics : a case study of the German North Sea Coast / / Cilli Sobiech

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Heidelberg, : Springer, 2013

ISBN

1-283-69764-5

3-642-32365-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Collana

Springer theses : recognizing outstanding Ph.D. research, , 2190-5053

Disciplina

551.489

Soggetti

Social systems - Computer simulation

Technology - Social aspects - Germany - North Sea Coast

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

Research Design -- Theoretical Research Framework -- Regional Research Framework -- System Analysis -- Reflexion.

Sommario/riassunto

The thesis constitutes an extraordinary innovative research approach in transferring the concepts and methods of complex systems to risk research. It ambitiously bridges the barriers between theoretical, empirical and methodical research work and integrates these fields into one comprehensive approach of dealing with uncertainty in socio-ecological systems. The developed agent-based simulation aims at the dynamics of social vulnerability in the considered system of the Cerman North Sea Coast. Thus, the social simulation provides an analytical method to explore the individual, relational, and spatial aspects leading to dynamics of vulnerability in society. Combining complexity science and risk research by the method of agent-based simulation hereby emphasizes the importance of understanding interrelations inside the system for the system's development, i.e. for the evolving. Based on a vulnerability assessment regarding vulnerability characteristics, present risk behavior and self-protection preferences of private households against the impacts of flooding and storm surges, possible system trajectories could be explored by means of simulation experiments. The system-analytical approach therefore contributes to an integrated consideration of multi-dimensional and context-sensitv social phenomena such as vulnerability. Furthermore it achieves conceptually



and strategically relevant implications for risk research and complex systems research.