CHAPTER ONE Failed States‚ Collapsed States‚ Weak States: Causes and Indicators ROBERT I. ROTBERG Nation-states fail because they are convulsed by internal violence and can no longer deliver positive political goods to their inhabitants. Their governments lose legitimacy‚ and the very nature of the particular nation-state itself becomes illegitimate in the eyes and in the hearts of a growing plurality of its citizens. The rise and fall of nation-states is not new‚ but in a modern era when
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Review of International Studies (1997)‚ 23‚ 5–26 Copyright © British International Studies Association The concept of security* DAV I D A . B A L D W I N Redefining ‘security’ has recently become something of a cottage industry.1 Most such efforts‚ however‚ are more concerned with redefining the policy agendas of nation-states than with the concept of security itself. Often‚ this takes the form of proposals for giving high priority to such issues as human rights‚ economics‚ the environment
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This article is about the art form. For other uses‚ see Poetry (disambiguation). Literature Major forms Novel Poem Drama Short story Novella Genres Comedy Drama Epic Erotic Nonsense Lyric Mythopoeia Romance Satire Tragedy Tragicomedy Media Performance (play) Book Techniques Prose Poetry History and lists Outline of literature Glossary of terms History (modern) Books Writers Literary / Poetry awards Discussion Criticism Theory Sociology Magazines Literature portal v t e "Poem"
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Genre: Close Study of Dystopian Genre The dystopic novel evinces a strong theme common in much science fiction and fantasy fiction‚ the creation of a future time (usually)‚ when the conditions of human life are exaggeratedly bad due to deprivation‚ oppression or terror. This created society or ‘dystopia’ frequently constructs apocalyptic views of a future using crime‚ immorality or corrupt government to create or sustain the bad quality of people’s lives‚ often conditioning the masses to believe
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INTRODUCTION TO AERONAUTICS: A DESIGN PERSPECTIVE CHAPTER 3: AERODYNAMICS AND AIRFOILS “Isn’t it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so that we could discover them!!” Orville Wright 3.1 DESIGN MOTIVATION The Physics of Aerodynamic Forces Figure 3.1 shows a cross section view of an aircraft wing. A wing cross section like this is called an airfoil. Lines drawn above and below the airfoil indicate how the air flows around it. The
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A TEACHER’S GUIDE TO THE SIGNET CLASSICS EDITION OF G EORG E B E R N A R D S HAW ’S PYGMALION By LAURA REIS MAYER BUNCOMBE COUNTY SCHOOLS‚ ASHEVILLE‚ NORTH CAROLINA S E R I E S E D I T O R S JEANNE M. MCGLINN‚ Ph.D.‚ University of North Carolina at Asheville and W. GEIGER ELLIS‚ Ed.D.‚ University of Georgia‚ Professor Emeritus 2 A Teacher’s Guide to the Signet Classics Edition of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion TABLE OF CONTENTS An Introduction ........................................
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• Educational • Video • About Us The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 Rabindranath Tagore Tagore and His India by Amartya Sen* Voice of Bengal Rabindranath Tagore‚ who died in 1941 at the age of eighty‚ is a towering figure in the millennium-old literature of Bengal. Anyone who becomes familiar with this large and flourishing tradition will be impressed by the power of Tagore’s presence in Bangladesh and in India. His poetry as well as his novels‚ short stories‚ and essays are very
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European Political Science Review (2009)‚ 1:1‚ 33–61 & Cambridge University Press‚ 2009 doi:10.1017/S1755773909000010 The nature and future of comparative politics PHILIPPE C. SCHMITTER 1 1‚2 * Emeritus Professor‚ European University Institute‚ Florence‚ Italy 2 Recurring Visiting Professor‚ Central European University‚ Budapest‚ Hungary The future of comparative politics is in doubt. This sub-discipline of political science currently faces a ‘crossroads’ that will determine its
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” Paper presented at the conference on Price Developments in Japan and Their Backgrounds: Experiences Since the 1990s‚ November 24‚ 2011‚ Bank of Japan Working Paper Series‚ No. 12-J-3‚ Bank of Japan‚ in Japanese. Williams‚ J. C. (2009): “Heeding Daedalus: Optimal Inflation and the Zero Lower Bound‚” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity‚ 1–37. 39
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