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Professor Shepperson says of this regional economic history of East Central Africa that it is a "refreshing combination of a scholarly survey of a relatively new field of African history and of a contribution to an important controversy on African underdevelopment." Alpers has written a history of the penetration and changing character of international trade in East Central Africa from the fifteenth to the later nineteenth century. His study focuses on a vast and little known region that includes southern Tanzania, northern Mozambique, and Malawi, with extension north along the Swahili coast and west as far as the Lunda state of the Mwata Kazembe. He examines both the competition between tra...
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th IPM International Conference on Fundamentals of Software Engineering, FSEN 2013, held in Tehran, Iran, in April 2013. The 17 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The topics of interest in FSEN span over all aspects of formal methods, especially those related to advancing the application of formal methods in software industry and promoting their integration with practical engineering techniques.
After 21 years of military rule, Brazil returned to democracy in 1985. Over the past decade and a half, Brazilians in the Nova Repœblica (New Republic) have struggled with a range of diverse challenges that have tested the durability and quality of the young democracy. How well have they succeeded? To what extent can we say that Brazilian democracy has consolidated? What actors, institutions, and processes have emerged as most salient over the past 15 years? Although Brazil is Latin America's largest country, the world's third largest democracy, and a country with a population and GNP larger than Yeltsin's Russia, more than a decade has passed since the last collaborative effort to examine ...
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Durante os dois primeiros governos Lula (2003-2010) ocorreu uma “perfeita sintonia” entre o Presidente da República e o seu ministro das relações exteriores. De um lado a experiência acumulada do chanceler e de outro a vontade política do presidente de “fazer as coisas acontecerem” como ele mesmo costuma dizer. O nome que se deu a isso reflete com precisão a nova orientação implementada na política externa, onde o combate a fome - que já era prioridade interna desde a campanha eleitoral - era apenas a cereja do bolo. Ou seja, um ornamento importante, mas um ator coadjuvante do processo. O objetivo principal era a busca da soberania, do respeito no cenário internacional; a experiência brasileira na exitosa política de combate à fome foi apenas um dos vários instrumentos utilizados!
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