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When it comes to any current scientific debate, there are more than
two sides to every story. Controversies in Science and Technology,
Volume 4 analyzes controversial topics in science and
technology-infrastructure, ecosystem management, food security, and
plastics and health-from multiple points of view. The editors have
compiled thought-provoking essays from a variety of experts from
academia and beyond, creating a volume that addresses many of the
issues surrounding these scientific debates. Part I of the volume
discusses infrastructure, and the real meaning behind the term in
today's society. Essays address the central issues that motivate
current discussion about infrastructure, including writing on the
vulnerability to disasters. Part II, titled "Food Policy," will
focus on the challenges of feeding an ever-growing world and the
costs of not doing so. Part III features essays on chemicals and
environmental health, and works to define "safety" as it relates to
today's scientific community. The book's final section examines
ecosystem management. In the end, Kleinman, Cloud-Hansen, and
Handelsman provide a multifaceted volume that will be appropriate
for anyone hoping to understand arguments surrounding several of
today's most important scientific controversies
National security is pervasive in government and society, but there
is little scholarly attention devoted to understanding the context,
institutions, and processes the U.S. government uses to promote the
general welfare. The Oxford Handbook of U.S. National Security aims
to fill this gap. Coming from academia and the national security
community, its contributors analyze key institutions and processes
that promote the peace and prosperity of the United States and, by
extension, its allies and other partners. By examining contemporary
challenges to U.S. national security, contributors consider ways to
advance national interests. The United States is entering uncharted
waters. The assumptions and verities of the Washington consensus
and the early post-Cold War have broken down. After 15 years of war
and the inability of two presidents to set a new long-term U.S.
foreign policy approach in place, the uncertainties of the Trump
administration symbolize the questioning of assumptions that is now
going on as Americans work to re-define their place in the world.
This handbook serves as a "how to" guide for students and
practitioners to understand the key issues and roadblocks
confronting those working to improve national security. The first
section establishes the scope of national security highlighting the
important debates to bridge the practitioner and scholarly
approaches to national security. The second section outlines the
major national security actors in the U.S. government, describes
the legislative authorities and appropriations available to each
institution, and considers the organizational essence of each actor
to explain behavior during policy discussions. It also examines the
tools of national security such as diplomacy, arms control, and
economic statecraft. The third section focuses on underlying
strategic approaches to national security addressing deterrence,
nuclear and cyber issues, and multilateral approaches to foreign
policy. The final section surveys the landscape of contemporary
national security challenges. This is a critical resource for
anyone trying to understand the complex mechanisms and institutions
that govern U.S. national security.
This casebook has been completely redesigned to provide law
professors and law students with a sophisticated presentation of
fundamental issues in constitutional criminal procedure. Material
is presented in a succinct and efficient format. In addition to
presenting the rules currently governing each topic of
constitutional law, the book also provides historical and
jurisprudential contexts which produced current doctrine. This
casebook also furnishes comprehensive coverage of fundamental
topics of constitutional criminal procedure in approximately 750
pages. Excerpts from scholarly writings and the authors'
commentaries and notes are used sparingly to provide guidance only
when necessary.
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