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Instead of concentrating on the prevention of the spread of weapons
of mass destruction, these studies concentrate on preventing their
use. A common argument runs through all of the papers: that, while
complacency must be avoided, much of the post-Cold War focus among
Western governments on the threat posed by weapons of mass
destruction is alarmist. Beyond this shared ground, the
contributors are diverse in their approaches and in many of their
conclusions. The first three provide critiques of Western policy as
in some ways having the unintended effect of increasing rather than
reducing the chances of the use of weapons of mass destruction,
especially nuclear weapons. The next three address themselves to
contexts which may influence the use of WMD, again especially
nuclear weapons. The last two authors challenge widely-held
assumptions among those worried about how to prevent the use of
weapons of mass destruction.
Instead of concentrating on the prevention of the spread of weapons
of mass destruction, these studies concentrate on preventing their
use. A common argument runs through all of the papers: that, while
complacency must be avoided, much of the post-Cold War focus among
Western governments on the threat posed by weapons of mass
destruction is alarmist. Beyond this shared ground, the
contributors are diverse in their approaches and in many of their
conclusions. The first three provide critiques of Western policy as
in some ways having the unintended effect of increasing rather than
reducing the chances of the use of weapons of mass destruction,
especially nuclear weapons. The next three address themselves to
contexts which may influence the use of WMD, again especially
nuclear weapons. The last two authors challenge widely-held
assumptions among those worried about how to prevent the use of
weapons of mass destruction.
Written by leading MicroProfile experts, this book provides you
with best practices for building enterprise-grade cloud-native
applications using MicroProfile 4.1 and running them on Open
Liberty with Docker, Kubernetes, and Istio Key Features Apply your
knowledge of MicroProfile APIs to develop cloud-native applications
Use MicroProfile Health to provide the startup, liveness, and
readiness status of your enterprise application Build an end-to-end
stock trader project and containerize it to deploy to the cloud
with Istio interaction Book DescriptionIn this cloud-native era,
most applications are deployed in a cloud environment that is
public, private, or a combination of both. To ensure that your
application performs well in the cloud, you need to build an
application that is cloud native. MicroProfile is one of the most
popular frameworks for building cloud-native applications, and fits
well with Kubernetes. As an open standard technology, MicroProfile
helps improve application portability across all of MicroProfile's
implementations. Practical Cloud-Native Java Development with
MicroProfile is a comprehensive guide that helps you explore the
advanced features and use cases of a variety of Jakarta and
MicroProfile specifications. You'll start by learning how to
develop a real-world stock trader application, and then move on to
enhancing the application and adding day-2 operation
considerations. You'll gradually advance to packaging and deploying
the application. The book demonstrates the complete process of
development through to deployment and concludes by showing you how
to monitor the application's performance in the cloud. By the end
of this book, you will master MicroProfile's latest features and be
able to build fast and efficient cloud-native applications. What
you will learn Understand best practices for applying the 12-Factor
methodology while building cloud-native applications Create
client-server architecture using MicroProfile Rest Client and
JAX-RS Configure your cloud-native application using MicroProfile
Config Secure your cloud-native application with MicroProfile JWT
Become well-versed with running your cloud-native applications in
Open Liberty Grasp MicroProfile Open Tracing and learn how to use
Jaeger to view trace spans Deploy Docker containers to Kubernetes
and understand how to use ConfigMap and Secrets from Kubernetes Who
this book is forThis book is for Java application developers and
architects looking to build efficient applications using an open
standard framework that performs well in the cloud. DevOps
engineers who want to understand how cloud-native applications work
will also find this book useful. A basic understanding of Java,
Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud is needed to get the most out of this
book.
When the United States led the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, it
expected to be able to establish a prosperous liberal democracy
with an open economy that would serve as a key ally in the region.
It sought to engage Iraqi society in ways that would defeat any
challenge to that state building project and U.S. guidance of it.
Eric Herring and Glen Rangwala argue that state building in Iraq
has been crippled less by preexisting weaknesses in the Iraqi
state, Iraqi sectarian divisions or U.S. policy mistakes than by
the fact that the US has attempted-with only limited success-to
control the parameters and outcome of that process. They explain
that the very nature of U.S. state-building in Iraq has created
incentives for unregulated local power struggles and patron-client
relations. Corruption, smuggling, and violence have resulted.The
main legacy of the US-led occupation, the authors contend, is that
Iraq has become a fragmented state-that is, one in which actors
dispute where overall political authority lies and in which there
are no agreed procedures for resolving such disputes. As long as
this is the case, the authority of the state will remain limited.
Technocratic mechanisms such as training schemes for officials,
political fixes such as elections, and the coercive tools of
repression will not be able to overcome this situation.Placing the
occupation within the context of regional, global, and U.S.
politics, Herring and Rangwala demonstrate how the politics of
co-option, coercion, and economic change have transformed the lives
and allegiances of the Iraqi population. As uncertainty about the
future of Iraq persists, this volume provides a much-needed
analysis of the deeper forces that give meaning to the daily events
in Iraq.
The focus of this work is the international dimension of
democratization in eastern Europe. Coverage of this theme includes:
the role of national governments and international organizations;
the behaviour of non-state actors such as entrepreneurs and ethnic
groups with cross-border allegiances; unintentional effects, such
as those of market forces; and deliberate attempts to exercise
influence, such as the use of trade barriers.;The work argues that
international factors have been a principal component of, and not
always favourable to, democratization in eastern Europe. It
examines in turn comparative perspectives, theories of democracy
and democratization, problems on international security - including
the collapse of Yugoslavia - and the roles of the EU and the former
USSR. Also considered are the cases of the Czech Repbulic,
Slovakia, Hungary and Poland.
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