Democratic Foreign Policy Making
Title | Democratic Foreign Policy Making PDF eBook |
Author | R. Pahre |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2006-10-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0230601448 |
Leading scholars from the United States and the European Union examine how democracies make foreign policy when their citizens disagree. The authors focus in particular on differences of opinion between the legislature and the executive - often called 'divided government' - and the constraints of public opinion on a leader's actions.
Regional fisheries management organizations and advisory bodies
Title | Regional fisheries management organizations and advisory bodies PDF eBook |
Author | The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
Publisher | Food & Agriculture Org. |
Pages | 127 |
Release | 2020-02-01 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9251322376 |
The regional dimension is key to international fisheries management policy, as demonstrated by the rapid expansion of the family of regional fisheries bodies (RFBs). There are some 50 RFBs worldwide. Most provide only advice to their members, and are hence referred to in this work as regional fisheries advisory bodies (RFABs). Regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) have mandates to adopt legally binding conservation and management measures based on the best scientific evidence. Global instruments and normative processes have to be implemented and translated into actions at the country and regional levels, as appropriate. In this regard, regionalization of fisheries and aquaculture governance can provide opportunities not only to address common concerns, create synergies and mainstream the global objectives of relevant UN bodies, but also to broaden outreach on the global fisheries agenda to regional partners that may not be directly concerned with fisheries, as well as to the general public. The present study provides an overview of the activities and developments of RFMOs and RFABs from 2000 to 2017. It is based on a compilation of data and information for 46 RFMOs and RFABs.
The Mathematical Theory of Symmetry in Solids
Title | The Mathematical Theory of Symmetry in Solids PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Bradley |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 758 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 0199582580 |
This classic book gives, in extensive tables, the irreducible representations of the crystallographic point groups and space groups. These are useful in studying the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of a particle or quasi-particle in a crystalline solid. The theory is extended to the corepresentations of the Shubnikov groups.
A Different Day
Title | A Different Day PDF eBook |
Author | Greta de Jong |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2003-04-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0807860107 |
Examining African Americans' struggles for freedom and justice in rural Louisiana during the Jim Crow and civil rights eras, Greta de Jong illuminates the connections between the informal strategies of resistance that black people pursued in the early twentieth century and the mass protests that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. Using evidence drawn from oral histories and a wide range of other sources, she demonstrates that rural African Americans were politically aware and active long before civil rights organizers arrived in the region in the 1960s to encourage voter registration and demonstrations against segregation. De Jong explores the numerous, often-subtle methods African Americans used to resist oppression within the confines of the Jim Crow system. Such everyday forms of resistance included developing strategies for educating black children, creating strong community institutions, and fighting back against white violence. In the wake of the economic changes that swept the South during and after World War II, these activities became more open and organized, culminating in voter registration drives and other protests conducted in cooperation with civil rights workers. Deeply researched and accessibly written, A Different Day spotlights the ordinary heroes of the freedom struggle and offers a new perspective on black activism throughout the twentieth century.
Group Theoretical Methods in Physics. Volume II
Title | Group Theoretical Methods in Physics. Volume II PDF eBook |
Author | M.A. Markov |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 673 |
Release | 2024-11-15 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1040284477 |
These Proceedings cover various topics in modern physics in which group theoretical methods can be applied effectively. The two volumes, containing over 100 papers, cover such areas as representation theory, the theory and applications of dynamical symmetries and coherent states, symmetries in atomic, molecular, nuclear and elementary particle physics, field theory including gauge theories, supersymmetry and supergravity, general relativity and cosmology, the theory of space groups and its applications to solid state physics and phase transitions, the problems of quantum and classical mechanics and paraxial optics, and the theory of nonlinear equations and solitons.
The Color of Work
Title | The Color of Work PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy J. Minchin |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0807849332 |
Histories of the civil rights movement have generally overlooked the battle to integrate the South's major industries. The paper industry, which has played an important role in the southern economy since the 1930s, has been particularly neglected. Using p
Site Symmetry in Crystals
Title | Site Symmetry in Crystals PDF eBook |
Author | Robert A. Evarestov |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 3642974422 |
The history of applications of space group theory to solid state physics goes back more than five decades. The periodicity of the lattice and the definition of a k-space were the corner-stones of this application. Prof. Volker Heine in Vol. 35 of Solid State Physics (1980) noted that, even in perfect crystals, where k-space methods are appropriate, the local properties (such as the charge densi ty, bond order, etc.) are defined by the local environment of one atom. Natural ly, "k-space methods" are not appropriate for crystals with point defects, sur faces and interfaces, or for amorphous materials. In such cases the real-space approach favored by chemists to describe molecules has turned out to be very useful. To span the gulf between the k-space and real space methods it is helpful to recall that atoms in crystalline solids possess a site symmetry defined by the symmetry of the local environment of the atom occupying the site. The site symmetry concept is familiar to crystallographers and commonly used by them in the description of crystalline structures. However, in the application of group theory to solid state physics problems, the site symmetry approach has been used only for the last ten to fifteen years. In our book Methods oj Group Theory in the Quantum Chemistry oj Solids published in Russian in 1987 by Leningrad University Press we gave the first results of this application to the theory of electronic structure of crystals.