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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"American power"”.
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The Unipolar Era: Why American Power Persists and China's Rise Is Limited
Is unipolarity sustainable? The dominant perspective among international relations scholars is that the United States is in decline relative to China, and that much of this decline is the result of globalization and the hegemonic burdens the United States bears to sustain globalization. According …
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HISTORY FROM THE MIDDLE: THE STUDENT INTERPRETERS CORPS AND IMAGINED AMERICAN ECONOMIC IMPERIALISM IN CHINA, 1902-1941
<p>The project of American economic imperialism in China during the first half of the twentieth century was first and foremost an imagined enterprise. This dissertation examines the role of the Student Interpreters Corps (SIC) in this endeavor. Studying language-trained intermediaries, this …
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The Japanese-American dilemma: A comparison of their relationship within George Modelski's theoretical framework of long cycles
… this thesis is to address the nature of Japanese-American bilateral relations in the twentieth century. An adaptation of George Modelski's theory of global long cycles is the tool used to analyze the relationship. This adaptation gives a broader evaluation of the relationship and provides a basis …
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Ike's Last War: Making War Safe for Society
… avoiding the devastating consequences of war in American society. By authorizing coups in Iran and Guatemala, Eisenhower blurred the line between coercive diplomacy and violent political warfare. President Eisenhower’s reliance on covert action to achieve political outcomes prevented general or …
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Reading the tea leaves : the Tea Party movement, the conservative establishment and the collapse of climate change legislation
… Tea Party campaigns against the Senate's American Power Act 2010, or Kerry-Graham-Lieberman bill, pressured Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to withdraw support for the bill, demonized the cap-and- trade approach to regulating greenhouse gas emissions, and reinvigorated skepticism about …
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Next Generation Design of a Frequency Data Recorder Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays
… designed to monitor fluctuations in the overall power system. The device is designed such that it can be attached by way of a standard wall power outlet to the power system. These devices then transmit their calculated frequency data through the public internet to a centralized data management …
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Between two worlds: Americans and Soviets after the Bolshevik Revolution
… century. It focuses on interaction between Americans and Russian Soviets during an era marked by both multidirectional migration and the increasing deployment of American power abroad. In the decade after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, Americans attempted to transform Russia through …
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Project Apollo, Cold War diplomacy and the American framing of global interdependence
… critical role that space exploration played in American foreign relations and national image making in the 1960s. Proposed by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, Project Apollo was established, in large part, as a means of demonstrating American power and promoting technocratic values in an …
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Pivotal Crisis: State Power and Social Forces in the Making of Neoliberal Capitalism
… the crisis of post-war capitalism and to harness American power to this end. The main argument is that the parochial way in which German state managers sought to preserve the domestic compact between capital and labour prevented a more progressive and solidaristic resolution of the crisis and …
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Application of Bifurcation Theory to Subsynchronous Resonance in Power Systems
… heavily loaded single-machine-infinite-busbar power systems modeling the characteristics of the BOARDMAN generator with respect to the rest of the North-Western American Power System and the CHOLLA# generator with respect to the SOWARO station. In the BOARDMAN system, we show that there are …
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Quantifying Vulnerability to Critical Infrastructure
… infrastructure, communities, and symbols of American power from terrorists, home and abroad, as well as from natural disasters. To this end, assessments are conducted to reduce vulnerability. The literature offers multiple definitions of vulnerability and measurement has not been adequately …
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We Humans: Nature, Culture, and Identity in the Anthropocene Age
… growth out of the centers of European and Euro-American power, I suggest that the Anthropocene originated out of deliberate colonial attempts to restructure traditional, land-based societies—and the lands they occupied—to fit Western-style developmental models. As Earth Systems scientists, …
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We Humans: Nature, Culture, and Identity in the Anthropocene Age
… growth out of the centers of European and Euro-American power, I suggest that the Anthropocene originated out of deliberate colonial attempts to restructure traditional, land-based societies—and the lands they occupied—to fit Western-style developmental models. As Earth Systems scientists, …
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“Otherwise, it’s War”: US-Taiwan Defense Ties and the Opening of the People’s Republic of China (1969-1974)
… the Vietnam War was continuing to grind down American power projection, and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was emerging as a potential partner on the world stage. Despite the uncertainty of the situation, both President Nixon and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger saw these …
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New Methods for Synchrophasor Measurement
… measurement units to help create a reliable power system transmission and distribution infrastructure. Wide-area monitoring systems (WAMSs) utilizing synchrophasor measurements can help with understanding, forecasting, or even controlling the status of power grid stability in real-time. A …
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Load Modeling using Synchrophasor Data for Improved Contingency Analysis
… researchers have sought to make the North American power system as reliable as possible with many security measures in place to include redundancy. Yet the increasing number of blackouts and failures have highlighted the areas that require improvement. Meeting the increasing demand for …
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An Economic Study of Carbon Capture and Storage System Design and Policy
… involving carbon capture at 14 Texas coal-fired power plants and three potential deep-saline aquifer sequestration sites. In turn OptimaCCS generates 1) a cost-effective CCS pipeline network for transporting CO2 from all the power plants to the possible storage sites, and 2) an estimate of the …
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Pax Australis: The History of Australia's Imperial Internationalism
… derivative of, and dependent upon, these great powers, leading some to even dispute the true independence of Australia. Concurrently, others have argued that an independent Australian approach to the world was apparent even prior to Federation. This piece seeks to reconcile these disparate views …
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Pax Australis: The History of Australia's Imperial Internationalism
… derivative of, and dependent upon, these great powers, leading some to even dispute the true independence of Australia. Concurrently, others have argued that an independent Australian approach to the world was apparent even prior to Federation. This piece seeks to reconcile these disparate views …
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CFD Simulation of Chemical Looping Combustion System
… to the imminent threat of climate change. The American Clean Energy Security Act and the American Power Act project that about 30% of fossil-fuel-based electricity generation to come from power plants with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) by 2040, rising to approximately 59% by 2050. …
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