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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"National Power"”.
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Pumping up : Russian energy and national power
… chains. Russia expects to strengthen its international position, both economically and geopolitically by undertaking this strategy of vertical integration.
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Testing One Framework for Measuring National Power in the Postindustrial Age
… researchers from the Rand Corporation. Measuring National Power in the Postindustrial Age is a book by Ashley J. Tellis, Janice Bially, Christopher Layne, and Melissa McPherson written with the specific goal of providing a detailed framework that would be useful to the United States' intelligence …
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National Power and Military Force: the Origins of the Weinberger Doctrine, 1980-1984
… United States use military force in pursuit of national interests? Despite not having a policy upon entering office or articulating one throughout its first term, the Reagan administration used military force numerous times. Two-weeks following Reagan's landslide reelection victory, Secretary of …
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Divergent Divine Memories: Divine National Power, Cultural Memory, and the Deuteronomistic History of 1&2 Kings
… preserve a singular understanding of divine national power? Through an exegetical examination of 1 Kings 18, 2 Kings 5, and 2 Kings 3, the contention is argued that at the earliest iterations of these texts there are divergent understandings of divine national power (monotheistic, …
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Powering the Nation: A Conceptual History of "National Power" and the "Population Problem" in Modern Japan (1870s-2000s)
… of conceptual history to argue that the idea of “national power” (*kokuryoku*) represented one of the guiding principles for the statist and conservative layers of Japan’s leadership when they conceived of Japan’s population. In other words, the persuasive anxiety of the impact demographic changes …
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Martial eagles and the national power grid in South Africa: the implications of pylon-nesting for conservation management
… population and its relative importance to the national conservation status of this globally threatened species. I used habitat association models to d escribe Martial Eagle territory density in relation to eight environmental covariates. Models were first fitted to eagle territory data for the …
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Prevailing Winds: Radical Activism and the American Indian Movement.
… that destroyed the American Indian Movement's national power structure.</p>
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Self-interest, national interest and the political leader's responsibility
The two major schools of thought on international relations in the United States are the realists and the internationalists (often called utopians). Both have a long history in Anglo-American thinking on foreign affairs but the internationalists have taken a back seat to the realists since World …
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Long-term power systems integration using OSeMOSYS SAMBA - South America Model Base - and the bargaining power of countries : a cooperative games approach
… of both advantages and drawbacks of power systems interconnection processes in South America. Based on data available in national and international reports, scenarios for the power supply sector expansion were modelled in the Open Source energy Modelling System – OSeMOSYS – using a …
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ENDING AN ENEMY: UNITED STATES–IRAN RELATIONS
… reinvigorate diplomacy among the elements of national power. History serves as a font of ideas, illuminating considerations for the development of a concerted effort aimed at advancing long-term relations with Iran.The Iran–United States relationship is often described by U.S. leaders as an …
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NATO and post-Cold War German-American relations (1990-1997
… Security and Defense Identity for the international system and for the shared interests and policies (and national power) of Germany and the United States. It also analyzes how these developments might affect the future European security architecture and the transatlantic relationship.
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China's Education Reforms: Strategic Implications
… will affect four strategic aspects of China's national power: its economy, internal stability, soft power, and military. In economic terms, China's economy stands to benefit by transitioning to a knowledge economy, possibly coming into competition with high technology industries in the U.S. …
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Consuming Japan: Cultural Relations and the Globalizing of America, 1973-1993
… to economic supremacy as a threat to U.S. national power, others imagined Japan as the harbinger of of globalized future of economic prosperity and cultural homogeneity. Popular cultural representations of Japan reflected such understandings but also addressed the postmodern nature of the …
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Decision support for the production and distribution of electricity under load shedding
Every day national power system networks provide thousands of MW of electric power from generating units to consumers. This process requires different operations and planning to ensure the security of the entire system. Part of the daily or weekly operation system is the so called Unit Commitment …
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THE ROLE OF NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN COMPREHENSIVE DEFENSE
… has demonstrated that Russia is an aggressive power capable of using all elements of national power to reach its strategic aims. Lithuania, due to its proximity to Russia, historical ties, and strong overt support to Ukraine, might be a prime target for the next Russian aggression. Due to its …
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In Search of Minerva's Owl: Canada’s Army and Staff Education (1946-1995)
… use of the Canadian military as an instrument of national power became disjointed. By default, the unifying factor in Canadian defence activities was maintaining relevance within alliances, particularly in supporting the Pax Americana. This influence can be discerned by applying theories of …
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Strategic Autonomy and India's Foreign Policy Towards the GCC, Israel and Iran: Exploring the Kautilyan Foreign Policy Principles
… internal balancing efforts aimed at maximizing national power and preserving its strategic autonomy. Kautilya's foreign policy insights provide a fresh lens to understand India's pursuit of strategic autonomy and its simultaneous management of partnerships with the GCC, Israel, and Iran. …
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Maritime strategy in the era of control and denial of visibility
… maritime strategy - the direction of elements of national power (including naval power, in particular) to secure national interests at sea - remains a vital subject. Just as there are principles of military strategy, so too are there principles of maritime strategy. However, these principles have …
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The changing character of power projection and maritime security in a digital age
… resulted in cyberspace being utilised to project national power and influence and is a key component in the establishment and maintenance of international relationships, trade, and security. Although providing both opportunities and threats in terms of a nation’s foreign policy and more broadly in …
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Dual Federalism from 1918 to 1936
… are we to recognize here a grant of power unqualified by the terms of the later adopted Tenth Amendment? The latter provides that "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the …
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