The volume analyzes the political and economic effects of the Iran-Iraq war upon Iraq, focusing on whether the war has united Iraqi society in a way that has not happened since the country was established in 1920. It opens with an examination of Iraqi political development and U.S. policy toward Iraq. Following is a discussion of the various means of political consolidation of Iraq. The next chapter investigates the growth of Iraqi foreign pol...
From this series of five lectures delivered at Hollins College emerges a sane re-examination of many of the crucial decisions in American foreign policy in the first half of the 20th century. The author spoke from his perspective as a member of the State Department's Policy Planning staff. It is not a book of answers or foolproof formulas for solving difficult international situations.
This provocative new volume focuses on the economic features that make Third World social formations distinctive and on non-property characteristics such as religion, ethnicity, and culture, that are central to the survival of these societies. Specifically, the authors look at the significance and revolutionary potential of peasant majorities, who take limited advantage of capitalist modes of production and often manage to maintain their cultu...
A collection of writings by experts in demographics, public administration and medicine, the book begins with an overview of the problems bedeviling health care systems and proceeds to discuss such crucial topics as the public attitude to health and the effect of ageing populations on services.
This unique and fascinating study centers on the experiences of expatriate American women married to French men, residing in France, and struggling to maintain American language and culture in their French-American children. More than a narrow study, The Transplanted Woman aims at illustrating the general dynamics of family groups. Three main, overlapping fields of sociological inquiry are included: the family, bilingualism, and women's studie...
Contemporary studies on social structure and the world political economy tend to be concerned primarily with present conditions and what these promise--or threaten for the future of the planet. The authors of this volume have taken a less fashionable stance, looking instead to the recent past and the pivotal historical moments that have formed the world we live in. Consisting of fourteen essays contributed by an international group of speciali...
This book presents an overview of the political occurrences that have affected the regulation of conflict of interest in government. Exploring the far-reaching consequences of the conduct and misconduct of past administrations, this provocative study traces the development of standards-of-conduct regulations and the implementation of regulatory laws, beginning with the Truman presidency, followed by the Eisenhower years, the New Frontier, the ...
Ebenso wie die Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie jährlich Rechenschaft über die Entwicklung der chirurgischen Disziplinen ablegt, so ist das Chirurgische Forum als fester Bestandteil der Tagung zum traditionellen Austragungsort wissenschaftlicher Auseinandersetzung in der klinischen und experimentellen chirurgischen Forschung geworden. Die Schwerpunktthemen behandeln die chirurgische Onkologie, Endokrinologie, Transplantation, pe...
Shalit draws on the research he conducted as field psychologist in the Israeli military to offer an original behavioral model of combat that accounts for the fighting potential of an individual or group. His model is based on the appraisal process that the individual undertakes in combat conditions to assess a situation, whether it concerns him or not and regardless of his role. It is through this process that the individual makes a judgment, ...