Can a distinct national foreign policy still be identified for small EU member states, and what accounts for the balance between national and EU foreign policy? Henrik Larsen develops an analytical framework for analyzing these questions and offers solutions through an empirical examination of the foreign policy of a small EU member state in the context of EU foreign policy - the case of Denmark. The book looks at seven policy areas: policy towards other EU member states, anti-terrorism, development, the Balkans, Africa, Latin America and trade. On the basis of the empirical study, the implications for the theoretical study of national foreign policy in an EU Context are outlined. It is suggested that we need a new, mixed approach to foreign policy analysis within the EU taking into account the nature of the policy area concerned and national conceptions of actorness.

Can a distinct national foreign policy still be identified for small EU member states, and what accounts for the balance between national and EU foreign policy? Henrik Larsen develops an analytical framework for analyzing these questions and offers solutions through an empirical examination of the foreign policy of a small EU member state in the context of EU foreign policy - the case of Denmark. The book looks at seven policy areas: policy towards other EU member states, anti-terrorism, development, the Balkans, Africa, Latin America and trade. On the basis of the empirical study, the implications for the theoretical study of national foreign policy in an EU Context are outlined. It is suggested that we need a new, mixed approach to foreign policy analysis within the EU taking into account the nature of the policy area concerned and national conceptions of actorness.

Der ursprtingliche Buchtitel lautete "TheOl'ie und Technik der Puls- modulation", Dieses Buch, 1957 erschienen, fand stetiges Interesse, so daB es seit einer Reihe von Jahren vergriffen ist und der Verlag sich eine zweite, auf den Stand der heutigen Theorie und Technik gebrachte Auf- lage wtinschte. Warum dabei die Titelanderung in "Pulstechnik"? Bei kritischer Uberprtifung des Inhalts stellten wir fest, daB zwischen der Breite der gegebencn Grundlagen, die das Interesse der Leser sichel' angezogen hat, und del' Auswahl del' technischen Anwendungen unglei- ches Gewicht bestand. Die theol'etischen Grundlagen waren gtiltig fUr weite Gebiete der gesamten Pulstechnik, die Anwendungen waren spezieller der Pulsmodulation gewidmet. Da es bei der heutigen Ftille an Fachliteratur sicher richtig ist, Neu- bearbeitungen zu "entspezialisieren", schien es gut, in den Gl'undlagen die Darstellung zu erganzen, um das viele Neue, was sich in Theorie und wissenschaftlicher Methodik wahrend gut anderthalb Jahrzehnten heraus- gebildet hat, in den Anwendungen tiber die Technik der Pulsmodulation hinaus weitere Beispiele zu bl'ingen. Nach dies em Konzept gaben wir dem \Verk den neuen Titel "Puls- technik" und teilten es in zwei Bande auf mit den Untertiteln 1. Grundlagen, II. Anwendungen und Systeme. Beide Teile sind in sich abgeschlossen; natiirlich werden im zweiten Band viele Kenntnisse zitiel't und vorausgesetzt, die im ersten Band erlautert sind.

VI weite Gebiete der gesamten Pulstechnik, die Anwendungen waren spezieller der Pulsmodulation gewidmet. Da es bei der heutigen Fiille an Fachliteratur sichel' richtig ist, Neu- bearbeitungen zu "entspezialisieren", schien es gut, in den Grundlagen die Darstellung zu ergiinzen urn das viele Neue, was sich in Theorie und wissenschaftlicher Methodik wiihrend gut anderthalb J ahrzehnten heraus- gebildet hat, und in den Anwendllngen iiber die Technik der Pulsmodu- lation hinaus weitere Beispiele zu bringen. Nach diesem Konzept gaben wir dem Werk den neuen Titel "Puls- technik" und teilten es in zwei Biinde auf mit den Untertiteln I. Grundlagen, II. Anwendungen und Systeme. Beide Teile sind in sich abgeschlossen; natiirlich werden im zweiten Band viele Kenntnisse zitiert und vorausgesetzt, die im ersten Band erliiutert sind. Del' erste Band wird hiermit vorgestellt. Die Grundgedanken seiner zehn Abschnitte sind am SchluB des einleitenden ersten Abschnittes im Vberblick beschrieben; hier moge daher nur in Stichworten genannt werden, was an Neuem dazugekommen ist: Neben notwendigen Er- giinzungen des allgemeinen mathematischen Riistzeugs sind es die orthogonalen Maanderfunktionen, die diskrete und die "schnelle" Fouriertransformation, die, qt'-Transformation, die digitalen Filter, die Auto- und Kreuzkorrelation, die zeitliche Pulskompression beim Radar in klassischer und digitaler Lasung, Optimierungsprozesse, die Barkercodes und die Ambiguity-Funktion. Neben wichtigen nach- richtentheoretischen Ergiinzungen sind es die Analog-Digital-Umsetzung, die Quellen- und die Kanalcodierung, ferner ein ganzer neuer Abschnitt zur digitalen Modulation, in dem Codier- und Decodierverfahren, die Pulscode- und die Deltamodulation sowie ihre gemeinsamen Abk6mm- linge beschrieben und diskutiert werden.

Operating under an outmoded system of urban development and faced by the vicissitudes of the Civil War and Reconstruction, southerners in the nineteenth century built a network of cities that met the needs of their society. In this pioneering exploration of that intricate story, Lawrence H. Larsen shows that in the antebellum period, southern entrepreneurs built cities in layers to facilitate the movement of cotton. First came the colonial cities, followed by those of the piedmont, the New West, the Gulf Coast, and the interior. By the Civil War, cotton could move by a combination of road, rail, and river through a network of cities -- for example, from Jackson to Memphis to New Orleans to Europe. In the Gilded Age, building on past practices, the South continued to make urban gains. Men like Henry Grady of Atlanta and Henry Watterson of Louisville used broader regional objectives to promote their own cities. Grady successfully sold Atlanta, one of the most southern of cities demographically, as a city with a northern outlook; Watterson tied Louisville to national goals in railroad building. The New South movement did not succeed in bringing the region to parity with the rest of the nation, yet the South continued to rise along older lines. By 1900, far from being a failure in terms of the general course of American development, the South had created an urban system suited to its needs, while avoiding the promotional frenzy that characterized the building of cities in the North. Based upon federal and local sources, this book will become the standard work on nineteenth-century southern urbanization, a subject too long unexplored.

In this panoramic survey of urbanization in the American South from its beginnings in the colonial period through the "Sunbelt" era of today, Lawrence Larsen examines both the ways in which southern urbanization has paralleled that of other regions and the distinctive marks of "southernness" in the historical process. Larsen is the first historian to show that southern cities developed in "layers" spreading ever westward in response to the expanding transportation needs of the Cotton Kingdom. Yet in other respects, southern cities developed in much the same way as cities elsewhere in America, despite the constraints of regional, racial, and agrarian factors. And southern urbanites, far from resisting change, quickly seized upon technological innovations- most recently air conditioning- to improve the quality of urban life. Treating urbanization as an independent variable without an ideological foundation, Larsen demonstrates that focusing on the introduction of certain city services, such as sewerage and professional fire departments, enables the historian to determine points of urban progress. Larsen's landmark study provides a new perspective not only on a much ignored aspect of the history of the South but also on the relationship of the distinctive cities of the Old South to the new concept of the Sunbelt city. Carrying his story down to the present, he concludes that southern cities have gained parity with others throughout America. This important work will be of value to all students of the South as well as to urban historians.

A military experiment gone horribly wrong has spread a virus that will change our world forever. Loving parents are now transforming into flesh eating beasts and attacking their own children. Thirteen year old Kyle, his twin brother Craig and sister Lauren manage to escape the carnage and flee north but find that the monsters are not their only predators. Struggling to survive in the forests of upstate New York they face unimaginable horrors as they try in vain to reach the safety of their father's cabin. Years pass and Kyle, now seventeen and only months from turning, has lost everything. On the verge of giving up he meets an immune adult who gives him new hope. They trek to Manhattan to search for a cure and find that an answer may lie in a lab in Philadelphia. Fighting against all odds to get there, they encounter bandits bent on sacrificing the young and engage in a fierce battle between man and beast. But they can't stop; they must find a cure, before they are consumed with rage.

From its birth as interdependent towns on the Missouri River frontier to its emergence as a metropolis straddling two states, Omaha-Council Bluffs has been one of the great urban construction projects in the nation's history. "Upstream Metropolis" provides the first comprehensive history of this unique urban region that ranks 60th among the 370 major metropolitan areas in the United States. Drawing on local newspapers and historical archives, the authors deliver an anecdote-rich account of how and why a large metropolitan area developed in this spot. They also explain why it grew so big--and no bigger--but could never have remained two small towns. "Upstream Metropolis" is an urban biography of the highest order, tracing the lives of two cities, which though divided by a river, the problems of a state line, and inevitable rivalry, have always been inextricably linked. This discussion moves from the freewheeling frontier days to the times of farming and railroads, examining influences such as the populist movement, the meatpacking industry, immigration, and ethnicity. The highly readable result is a pioneering contribution to the history of urbanization in America.

"Lawrence Larsen and his wife Barbara Cottrell have written a marvelous urban biography. They have done what other historians often fail to do--relate local happenings to the larger regional and national picture. And Larsen and Cottrell have skillfully used sophisticated historical works and concepts, incorporating them in an understandable fashion. Throughout this book the authors write in a delightful manner; they make you want to visit Omaha!"--North Dakota History. "[The authors] organize their splendid urban biography around a limited number of events of national magnitude. The husband-wife team take as their story's major units the building of the transcontinental railroad, the penetration of the Great Plains by homesteaders, the establishment of the meat packing industry, and the creation of an elaborate national defense system. They fill in their story with intriguing descriptions of the push-and-pull factors that brought diverse ethnic groups to Omaha in the years since 1854--the years when town promoters first settled at the Missouri River ferry landing in the newly established Nebraska territory. Because their narrative is so well organized, their treatment of political, social, and cultural affairs is clear and cohesive, while their discussion of urban unrest, vice, and crime remains tightly linked to the general outlines of their lively portrait of Omaha's history."--Business History Review. Lawrence H. Larsen is a professor of history at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is the author of The Urban South: A History (1990), Federal Justice in Western Missouri: The Judges, the Cases, the Times (1994), and other books. Barbara J. Cottrell is a historian with the National Archives-Central Plains Region. Harl A. Dalstrom is a professor of history at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

This report contains the findings from a rapid biological assessment of the Grensgebergte and Kasikasima mountains of southeastern Suriname. Suriname is one of the last places on Earth where an opportunity still exists to conserve huge tracts of pristine, diverse tropical forests. This volume is part of a series of surveys in Suriname designed to support the protection of biodiversity and freshwater and other ecosystem services through collection of baseline biological and socioeconomic data. The researchers in southeastern Suriname investigated plants, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, insects, and water quality. Over one hundred new species were discovered, including fish, beetles, and katydids.

Historians have largely ignored the western city; although a number of specialized studies have appeared in recent years, this volume is the first to assess the importance of the urban frontier in broad fashion. Lawrence H. Larsen studies the process of urbanization as it occurred in twenty-four major frontier towns. Cities examined are Kansas City, St. Joseph, Lincoln, Omaha, Atchison, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Topeka, Austin, Dallas, Galveston, Houston, San Antonio, Denver, Leadville, Salt Lake city, Virginia City, Portland, Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, and Stockton. Larsen bases his analysis of western cities and their problems on social statistics obtained from the 1880 United States Census. This census is particularly important because it represents the first time that the federal government regarded the United States as an urban nation. The author is the first scholar to do a comprehensive investigation of this important source. This volume gives an accurate portrayal of western urban life. Here are promoters and urban planners crowding as many lots as possible into tracts in the middle of vast, uninhabited valleys. Here are streets clogged with filth because of inadequate sanitation systems; people crowded together in packed quarters with only fledgling police and fire services. Here, too, is the advance of nineteenth-century technology: gaslights, telephones, interurbans. Most important, this study dispels the misconceptions concerning the process of exploration, settlement, and growth of the urban west. City building in the American West, despite popular mythology, was not a response to geographic or climatic conditions. It was the extension of a process perfected earlier, the promotion and building of sites-no matter how undesirable-into successful localities. Uncontrolled capitalism led to disorderly development that reflected the abilities of individual entrepreneurs rather than most other factors. The result was the establishment of a society that mirrored and made the same mistakes as those made earlier in the rest of the country.

This report contains the findings from a rapid biological assessment of the Kwamalasamutu region of southwestern Suriname. Focusing on the plant and animal species important to the indigenous Trio people, this survey establishes baseline information on the region's biodiversity and ecosystem health in order to better inform ecotourism and monitoring efforts. The RAP team found the Kwamalasamutu region to harbor rich biodiversity, with few signs of ecosystem degradation, and at least forty-six of the species identified in this volume are new to science. Further conservation and management recommendations are provided.