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Dramatic changes in the global security environment have
necessitated a fundamental reassessment of U.S. interests and
policy worldwide. This book focuses on the underlying forces at
work in the Middle East, the challenges the United States will face
in the region in the coming decade, and how they will influence
U.S. interests and future strategy. The contributors go beyond
traditional perspectives in analyzing such critical issues as
state-to-state conflicts in the Arab-Israeli and Persian Gulf
arenas; growing Western dependence on Middle East oil; an
increasingly lethal arms race that may upset the regional balance;
competition for scarce resources, such as water, in non-oil states;
and ethnic, sectarian, and ideological forces, such as the Islamic
revival and pressures for democracy, that will affect regional
stability and U.S. interests. Throughout, the authors take a fresh
look at strategic priorities, the policy options available, and the
dilemmas presented by conflicting U.S. interests. The many layers
of analysis are woven together intricately but realistically.
Drawing from a variety of sources - literary, visual,
archaeological; papyri, inscriptions and coins - the author studies
the nature of Diocletian's imperial strategy, his wars, his
religious views and his abdication. The author also examines
Galerius' endeavour to take control of Diocletian's empire, his
failures and successes, against the backdrop of Constantine's
remorseless drive to power. The first comprehensive study of the
Emperor Galerius, this book offers an innovative analysis of his
reign as both Caesar and Augustus, using his changing relationship
with Diocletian as the principal key to unlock the complex imperial
politics of the period.
Drawing from a variety of sources - literary, visual,
archaeological; papyri, inscriptions and coins - the author studies
the nature of Diocletian's imperial strategy, his wars, his
religious views and his abdication. The author also examines
Galerius' endeavour to take control of Diocletian's empire, his
failures and successes, against the backdrop of Constantine's
remorseless drive to power. The first comprehensive study of the
Emperor Galerius, this book offers an innovative analysis of his
reign as both Caesar and Augustus, using his changing relationship
with Diocletian as the principal key to unlock the complex imperial
politics of the period.
This book is the outgrowth of a collaborative effort by a small
group of national security analysts associated with the Institute
forNational Strategic Studies of the National Defense
University,government officials responsible for pondering defense
and foreign policy issues, and academics with long experience in
Middle Eastern affairs. In the past several years these scholars,
policy analysts, and military planners have been focusing on the
impact on U.S. goals and interests in the Middle East of three
seminal events-the ending of the cold war, the collapse of the
Soviet Union, and the invasion of Kuwaitby Saddam Husayn and the
subsequent Gulf War. The authors'individual studies have been
nourished by frequent intellectual exchanges with one another and
by their participation in numerous academic meetings designed to
explore the future of U.S. relations with the Middle East.
This volume covers different aspects of recent theoretical and
observational work on magnetic reconnection, a fundamental
plasma-physical process by which energy stored in magnetic field is
converted, often explosively, into heat and kinetic energy. This
collection of papers from the fields of solar and space physics,
astrophysics, and laboratory plasma physics is especially timely in
view of NASA's upcoming Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, which
will use Earth's magetosphere as a laboratory to test, through
in-situ measurement of the plasma, energetic particles, and
electric and magnetic fields, the various and sometimes competing
models and theories of magnetic reconnection. This volume is aimed
at researchers in solar physics, magnetospheric physics and plasma
physics. Previously published in Space Science Reviews journal,
Vol. 160/1-4, 2011.
This volume covers different aspects of recent theoretical and
observational work on magnetic reconnection, a fundamental
plasma-physical process by which energy stored in magnetic field is
converted, often explosively, into heat and kinetic energy. This
collection of papers from the fields of solar and space physics,
astrophysics, and laboratory plasma physics is especially timely in
view of NASA's upcoming Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, which
will use Earth's magetosphere as a laboratory to test, through
in-situ measurement of the plasma, energetic particles, and
electric and magnetic fields, the various and sometimes competing
models and theories of magnetic reconnection.
This volume is aimed at researchers in solar physics,
magnetospheric physics and plasma physics.
Previously published in Space Science Reviews journal, Vol.
160/1-4, 2011.
Philosophers usually have been anxious to avoid solipsism. A large
number of good and great philosophers have tried to refute it. Of
course, these philosophers have not always had the same target in
mind and, like everything else, solipsism over the centuries has
become increasingly elusive and subtle. In this book I undertake to
state the position in its most modern and what I take to be its
most plausible form. At some points in the history of philosophy
the solipsist has been one who denied the existence of everything
except himself or even the existence of everything except his own
present sensations. At other times, the solipsist instead of
doubting these things has merely insisted that there could be no
good reason for believing in the existence of anything beyond one's
own present sensations. Roughly, this doubt is aimed at reasons
rather than at things. A solipsist of this sort appears in
Santayana's Scepticism and Animal Faith.
This is an introduction to the life and work of one of the greatest
Welsh dramatists of this century. John Gwilym Jones (1904-1988) was
also a short-story writer, novelist and literary critic whose work
was almost exclusively in the Welsh language. The aim of this book
is to present Jones's work to the English-speaking world.
The Essence of Nathan Biddle is a coming-of-age novel set in the
American South in the 1950s. Narrator Kit Biddle, near the end of
his high school career, finds himself tangled in a web of family
secrets, including a crazy uncle who hears God and literally
sacrifices (murders) his own son, Kit's cousin-landing him in a
mental institution. Kit is also vexed by the pressing questions
that haunt all teenagers: Who am I? Why am I here? When Anna, the
beautiful, brilliant object of his affections, rejects him, Kit
spirals into despair. Even his witty best friend, Lichtman, is of
no help. Kit's impulsive decision to steal the golf club's
maintenance truck one night and speed down the highway ends in a
horrific accident and months of convalescence, including
interesting hours spent in a therapist's office where Kit tries to
piece his life together. Yet tragedy leads to light in this gentle
tale; even a new girlfriend appears. "It was calamity that gave me
a moment of pause, an occasion for reassessment and redirection. I
suffered both a breakdown and a breakthrough," Kit says near the
end of his ordeal. Readers will rejoice as Kit closes in on answers
to his search for the meaning of life
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