1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996391729703316

Titolo

A perfect relation of the taking of the towne of Preston in Lancashire, by the Parliaments forces under the command of Colonell Sir John Seaton on Thursday the ninth day of February, 1642 [[electronic resource] ] : As it was certified by some gentlemen of repute in the same county to a member of the House of Commons, with the names of those that were slain. Together, with very good nevvs from Cheshire. Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, that this letter be forthwith printed and published. H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for Edward Husbands, and are to be sold at his shop in the Middle Temple, Febr. 16. 1642. [i.e. 1643]

Descrizione fisica

8 p

Soggetti

Preston (England) History Early works to 1800

Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649 Campaigns Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792463003321

Titolo

Great powers and strategic stability in the 21st century : competing visions of world order / / edited by Graeme P. Herd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge/GCSP, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-23339-X

1-135-23340-3

1-282-57634-8

9786612576348

0-203-86582-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Routledge global security studies

Altri autori (Persone)

HerdGraeme P

Disciplina

327.1

Soggetti

Security, International

Political stability

Great powers

World politics - 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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part I Introduction; 1 International security, Great Powers and world order; Part II Strategic threats: Nature and evolution; 2 Terrorism and extremism; 3 Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; 4 Regional crisis, conflict and fragile states; 5 How energy and climate change may pose a threat to sustainable security; Part III Centers of global power: Strategic priorities and threat management; 6 The United States: Leadership beyond unipolarity?

7 The Russian Federation: Striving for multipolarity but missing the consequences8 China as an emergent center of global power; 9 Global threats and India's quest for strategic space; 10 The EU: Facing non- traditional threats in a globalized world; Part IV Conclusions: Cooperative and conflictual imperatives; 11 Great Powers: Towards a "cooperative competitive" future world order paradigm?; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book addresses the issue of grand strategic stability in the 21st



century, and examines the role of the key centres of global power - US, EU, Russia, China and India - in managing contemporary strategic threats.This edited volume examines the cooperative and conflictual capacity of Great Powers to manage increasingly interconnected strategic threats (not least, terrorism and political extremism, WMD proliferation, fragile states, regional crises and conflict and the energy-climate nexus) in the 21st century. The contributors question whether global order wi