According to a widely shared notion, foreign affairs are exempted from democratic politics, i.e. party-political divisions are overcome-and should be overcome-for the sake of a common national interest. This book shows that this is not the case. Examining votes in the US Congress and several European parliaments, the book demonstrates that contestation over foreign affairs is barely different from contestation over domestic politics. Analyses of a new collection of deployment votes, of party manifestos, and of expert survey data show that political parties differ systematically over foreign policy and military interventions in particular. The left/right divide is the best guide to the pattern of party-political contestation: support is weakest at the far left of the spectrum and increases as one moves along the left/right axis to green, social democratic, liberal and conservative parties; amongst parties of the far right, support is again weaker than amongst parties of the centre. An analysis of parliamentary debates in Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom about the interventions in Afghanistan and against Daesh in Iraq and Syria shows that political parties also differ systematically in how they frame the use of force abroad. For example, parties on the right tend to frame their country's participation in the US-led missions in terms of national security and national interests whereas parties on the left tend to engage in 'spiral model thinking', i.e. they critically reflect on the unintended consequences of the use of force in fuelling the conflicts with the Taliban and Daesh.

The Democratic Politics of Military Interventions: Political Parties, Contestation, and Decisions to Use Force Abroad

Business & Money

Wagner, Wolfgang

Economics

Oxford University Press

Acts:The Autobiography of Wolfgang Wagner Signed and inscribed by the Author "To Allan &amp; Claire Halber Wolfgang Wagner 24 XI 1999" Excellent condition See my other listings for much more! Allen17

Acts: The Autobiography of Wolfgang Wagner

Biographies & Memoirs

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

This book, the first in a multi-volume history of German aviation, provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of of jet aircraft design and development in Germany. The solid description, unique photo material, historical documents, numerous drawings a

The History of German Aviation: The First Jet Aircraft (Schiffer Military/Aviation History)

History

Europe

Schiffer_Publishing

This volume, the second in a mulit-volume history of German aviation, discusses the life work of one of Germany's greatest aircraft designers in pictures, tables, drawings and in his own words discussing flight testing of his airplanes. Examined are the b

The History of German Aviation: Kurt Tank: Focke-Wulf's Designer and Test Pilot

Schiffer Military History

Social representation theory is a major theoretical framework in European social psychology, yet this is the first single text to cover the main concepts, issues and debates in the field. Loosely based around a translation of Wolfgang Wagner's classic text Alltagsdiskurs (currently only available in German), this is an all new book, approaching the major theoretical, epistemological and empirical frameworks of modern social representation research in a fresh way, reflecting the considerable changes of the past decade.

Everyday Discourse and Common Sense: The Theory of Social Representations

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Red Globe Press

Chemische Thermodynamik (Wissenschaftliche Taschenbücher, 6) (German Edition)

Science & Math

Chemistry

de Gruyter

Jahrbuch Internationale Politik 1999 - 2000.

Kaiser, Karl

Link, Werner

Dönhoff, Marion Gräfin

Maull, Hanns W

Schatz, Klaus-Werner

Oldenbourg

Stochastic numerical methods play an important role in large scale computations in the applied sciences. The first goal of this book is to give a mathematical description of classical direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) procedures for rarefied gases, using the theory of Markov processes as a unifying framework. The second goal is a systematic treatment of an extension of DSMC, called stochastic weighted particle method. This method includes several new features, which are introduced for the purpose of variance reduction (rare event simulation). Rigorous convergence results as well as detailed numerical studies are presented.

Stochastic Numerics for the Boltzmann Equation (Springer Series in Computational Mathematics, 37)

Rjasanow, Sergej

Mathematics

Springer

The book gives an outline of prevailing hydrogeologic conditions in the Arab Middle East together with the geologic background. Emphasis is given to relationships between the main features influencing the hydrogeologic conditions - regional geologic developments, paleogeographic conditions, morphology, climate and paleo-climate - and the resulting hydrogeologic features: formation of aquifers, distribution of major aquifers, main groundwater flow systems, occurrence of renewable and fossil groundwater. Reported data on hydraulic aquifer parameters, recharge rates and groundwater flow volumes are evaluated with a view to arrive at characteristic values under the specific hydrogeologic and climatic conditions. The area considered covers approximately the Arabian Plate. Information on the following countries is included: Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen.

Groundwater in the Arab Middle East

The book gives an outline of prevailing hydrogeologic conditions in the Arab Middle East together with the geologic background. Emphasis is given to relationships between the main features influencing the hydrogeologic conditions - regional geologic developments, paleogeographic conditions, morphology, climate and paleo-climate - and the resulting hydrogeologic features: formation of aquifers, distribution of major aquifers, main groundwater flow systems, occurrence of renewable and fossil groundwater. Reported data on hydraulic aquifer parameters, recharge rates and groundwater flow volumes are evaluated with a view to arrive at characteristic values under the specific hydrogeologic and climatic conditions. The area considered covers approximately the Arabian Plate. Information on the following countries is included: Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen.

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