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Near-Field Antenna Measurements shows you how to calculate antenna
gain, pattern, and beam pointing faster and more accurately than
ever before. Emphasizing practical solutions to real-world
problems, it presents a detailed technical overview of the theory
and practice of antenna near-field measurements.
Like the postcolonial world more generally, Southeast Asia exhibits
tremendous variation in state capacity and authoritarian
durability. Ordering Power draws on theoretical insights dating
back to Thomas Hobbes to develop a unified framework for explaining
both of these political outcomes. States are especially strong and
dictatorships especially durable when they have their origins in
'protection pacts': broad elite coalitions unified by shared
support for heightened state power and tightened authoritarian
controls as bulwarks against especially threatening and challenging
types of contentious politics. These coalitions provide the elite
collective action underpinning strong states, robust ruling
parties, cohesive militaries, and durable authoritarian regimes -
all at the same time. Comparative-historical analysis of seven
Southeast Asian countries (Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, the
Philippines, Singapore, South Vietnam, and Thailand) reveals that
subtly divergent patterns of contentious politics after World War
II provide the best explanation for the dramatic divergence in
Southeast Asia's contemporary states and regimes.
Why some of Asia's authoritarian regimes have democratized as they
have grown richer-and why others haven't Over the past century,
Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth,
industrialization, and urbanization-a spectacular record of
development that has turned one of the world's poorest regions into
one of its richest. Yet Asia's record of democratization has been
much more uneven, despite the global correlation between
development and democracy. Why have some Asian countries become
more democratic as they have grown richer, while others-most
notably China-haven't? In From Development to Democracy, Dan Slater
and Joseph Wong offer a sweeping and original answer to this
crucial question. Slater and Wong demonstrate that Asia defies the
conventional expectation that authoritarian regimes concede
democratization only as a last resort, during times of weakness.
Instead, Asian dictators have pursued democratic reforms as a
proactive strategy to revitalize their power from a position of
strength. Of central importance is whether authoritarians are
confident of victory and stability. In Japan, South Korea, and
Taiwan these factors fostered democracy through strength, while
democratic experiments in Indonesia, Thailand, and Myanmar were
less successful and more reversible. At the same time, resistance
to democratic reforms has proven intractable in Singapore,
Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Reconsidering
China's 1989 crackdown, Slater and Wong argue that it was the
action of a regime too weak to concede, not too strong to fail, and
they explain why China can allow democracy without inviting
instability. The result is a comprehensive regional history that
offers important new insights about when and how democratic
transitions happen-and what the future of Asia might be.
This book argues that Southeast Asian political studies have made
important contributions to theory building in comparative politics
through a dialogue involving theory, area studies, and qualitative
methodology. The book provides a state-of-the-art review of key
topics in the field, including: state structures, political
regimes, political parties, contentious politics, civil society,
ethnicity, religion, rural development, globalization, and
political economy. The chapters allow readers to trace the
development of Southeast Asian politics and to address central
debates in comparative politics. The book will serve as a valuable
reference for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars of
Southeast Asian politics, and comparativists engaged in theoretical
debates at the heart of political science.
This book argues that Southeast Asian political studies have made
important contributions to theory building in comparative politics
through a dialogue involving theory, area studies, and qualitative
methodology. The book provides a state-of-the-art review of key
topics in the field, including: state structures, political
regimes, political parties, contentious politics, civil society,
ethnicity, religion, rural development, globalization, and
political economy. The chapters allow readers to trace the
development of Southeast Asian politics and to address central
debates in comparative politics. The book will serve as a valuable
reference for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars of
Southeast Asian politics, and comparativists engaged in theoretical
debates at the heart of political science.
At first glance, Gabriel Cardona is an exemplary American teenager:
athletic, bright, handsome and charismatic. But his Texas town is
poor and dangerous, and it isn't long before Gabriel abandons his
promising future for the allure of the Zetas, a drug cartel with
roots in the Mexican military. Meanwhile, Mexican-born Detective
Robert Garcia has worked hard all his life and is now struggling to
raise his family in America. As violence spills over the border,
Detective Garcia's pursuit of the Zetas puts him face to face with
the urgent consequences of a war he sees as unwinnable. In Wolf
Boys, Dan Slater takes readers on a harrowing, moving, and often
brutal journey into the heart of the Mexican drug trade - from the
Sierra Madre mountaintops to the smuggling ports of Veracruz, from
cartel training camps and holiday parties to the dusty alleys of
South Texas. Ultimately though, Wolf Boys is the intimate and vivid
story of the 'lobos': teens turned into pawns for cartels. A
non-fiction thriller, it reads with the emotional clarity of a
great novel, yet offers its revelations through extraordinary
reporting.
Confirmed travel addict Dan Slater is moving from London to South
Africa, and somehow he persuades his long-suffering girlfriend to
join him on an overland trek across the dark continent from Cairo
to Cape Town. What he doesn't tell her is that their budget for the
five-month trip is only $10 per day! Using only the most
delapidated transport, sleeping in the most unsavoury
accommodation, and consuming the cheapest food available, they
trawl south constantly confronted by discomfort, despair and
derangement. In the face of never-ending trauma they must
constantly remind themselves that this is, in fact, a holiday.
At first glance, Gabriel Cardona is an exemplary American teenager:
athletic, bright, handsome and charismatic. But his Texas town is
poor and dangerous, and it isn't long before Gabriel abandons his
promising future for the allure of the Zetas, a drug cartel with
roots in the Mexican military. Meanwhile, Mexican-born Detective
Robert Garcia has worked hard all his life and is now struggling to
raise his family in America. As violence spills over the border,
Detective Garcia's pursuit of the Zetas puts him face to face with
the urgent consequences of a war he sees as unwinnable. In Wolf
Boys, Dan Slater takes readers on a harrowing, moving, and often
brutal journey into the heart of the Mexican drug trade - from the
Sierra Madre mountaintops to the smuggling ports of Veracruz, from
cartel training camps and holiday parties to the dusty alleys of
South Texas. Ultimately though, Wolf Boys is the intimate and vivid
story of the 'lobos': teens turned into pawns for cartels. A
non-fiction thriller, it reads with the emotional clarity of a
great novel, yet offers its revelations through extraordinary
reporting.
Canonical theories of political economy struggle to explain
patterns of distribution in authoritarian regimes. In this Element,
Albertus, Fenner, and Slater challenge existing models and
introduce an alternative, supply-side, and state-centered theory of
'coercive distribution'. Authoritarian regimes proactively deploy
distributive policies as advantageous strategies to consolidate
their monopoly on power. These policies contribute to authoritarian
durability by undercutting rival elites and enmeshing the masses in
lasting relations of coercive dependence. The authors illustrate
the patterns, timing, and breadth of coercive distribution with
global and Latin American quantitative evidence and with a series
of historical case studies from regimes in Latin America, Asia, and
the Middle East. By recognizing distribution's coercive dimensions,
they account for empirical patterns of distribution that do not fit
with quasi-democratic understandings of distribution as quid pro
quo exchange. Under authoritarian conditions, distribution is less
an alternative to coercion than one of its most effective
expressions.
Like the postcolonial world more generally, Southeast Asia exhibits
tremendous variation in state capacity and authoritarian
durability. Ordering Power draws on theoretical insights dating
back to Thomas Hobbes to develop a unified framework for explaining
both of these political outcomes. States are especially strong and
dictatorships especially durable when they have their origins in
'protection pacts': broad elite coalitions unified by shared
support for heightened state power and tightened authoritarian
controls as bulwarks against especially threatening and challenging
types of contentious politics. These coalitions provide the elite
collective action underpinning strong states, robust ruling
parties, cohesive militaries, and durable authoritarian regimes -
all at the same time. Comparative-historical analysis of seven
Southeast Asian countries (Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, the
Philippines, Singapore, South Vietnam, and Thailand) reveals that
subtly divergent patterns of contentious politics after World War
II provide the best explanation for the dramatic divergence in
Southeast Asia's contemporary states and regimes.
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