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Monthly Labor Review
Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
Causes of War
Written by leading scholars in the field, Causes of War provides the first comprehensive analysis of the leading theories relating to the origins of both interstate and civil wars. Utilizes historical examples to illustrate individual theories throughout Includes an analysis of theories of civil wars as well as interstate wars -- one of the only texts to do both Written by two former International Studies Association Presidents
Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen. Dandy und Poet
Jacques d'Adelswärd (1880–1923), der sich nach einem entfernten Ahnen Jacques Fersen nannte, ist als Autor von Romanen und vor allem Gedichten heute weitgehend vergessen; in Bibliotheken sind seine Bücher kaum zu finden, ebenso wenig seine Zeitschrift "Akademos", mit der er 1909 auch für die "Andere Liebe" eine Lanze brechen wollte. Wegen der Veranstaltung erotischer Tableaux vivants (die Presse sprach von Schwarzen Messen) wurde Fersen 1903 zu einer kurzen Haftstrafe verurteilt. Aufgrund dieses Skandals verlies er kurz darauf Paris. Auf Capri errichtete er auf einsamer Bergspitze eine klassizistische Villa, in der er mit seinem Sekretär und Geliebten Nino Cesarini lebte, den er durch ...
Armed Servants
How do civilians control the military? In the wake of September 11, the renewed presence of national security in everyday life has made this question all the more pressing. In this book, Peter Feaver proposes an ambitious new theory that treats civil-military relations as a principal-agent relationship, with the civilian executive monitoring the actions of military agents, the armed servants of the nation-state. Military obedience is not automatic but depends on strategic calculations of whether civilians will catch and punish misbehavior. This model challenges Samuel Huntington's professionalism-based model of civil-military relations, and provides an innovative way of making sense of the U...
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Planetary Atmospheric Electricity
This book is a comprehensive discussion of all issues related to atmospheric electricity in our solar system. It details atmospheric electricity on Earth and other planets and discusses the development of instruments used for observation.
