Category: Political Freedom

By Committee on Determining Core Capabilities in Chemical and Biological Defense Research and Development, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council

The objective of the U.S. division of Defense's (DoD's) Chemical and organic safeguard software (CBDP) is to supply help and world-class features permitting he U.S. militia to struggle and win decisively in chemical, organic, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) environments. to complete this aim, the CBDP needs to hold powerful technological know-how and know-how features to aid the learn, improvement, trying out, and review required for the production and validation of the goods this system offers.

The probability from chemical and organic assault evolves as a result altering nature of clash and speedy advances in technological know-how and expertise (S&T), so the center S&T features that has to be maintained through the CBDP should also proceed to adapt. as a way to handle the demanding situations dealing with the DoD, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of safety (DASD) for Chemical and organic security (CBD) requested the nationwide examine Council (NRC) to behavior a learn to spot the middle functions in S&T that needs to be supported by way of this system.

The NRC Committee on picking out center features in Chemical and organic security learn and improvement tested the services beneficial for the chemical and organic protection S&T software within the context of the danger and of the program's acknowledged undertaking and priorities. identifying center services in Chemical and organic protection technology and expertise contains the committee's findings and suggestions. it's meant to help the DASD CBD in deciding upon the easiest technique for buying, constructing, and/or keeping the wanted services.

By Rinku Sen

The unintended American vividly illustrates the demanding situations and contradictions of U. S. immigration coverage, and argues that, simply as there's a loose stream of capital on the planet financial system, there will be a loose move of work. writer Rinku Sen alternates chapters telling the tale of 1 "accidental American"--coauthor Fekkak Mamdouh, a Morrocan-born waiter at a restaurant on this planet exchange middle whose existence was once thrown into turmoil on 9/11--with a radical critique of present immigration coverage. Sen and Mamdouh describe how individuals of the principally immigrant meals group controlled to beat divisions within the aftermath of Sep 11 and shape the eating place possibilities middle of latest York (ROC-NY) to struggle for jobs and extra equitable remedy. This outstanding tale serves to light up the racial, cultural, and fiscal conflicts embedded within the present immigration debate and is helping body the argument for a extra humane immigration and international exertions process.

By Michael G. Shanley, Matthew W. Lewis, Susan G. Straus, Jeff Rothenbert, Lindsay Daugherty

This learn tested how the complex dispensed studying (ADL) Initiative may perhaps inspire the reuse of electronic education content material as a technique to lessen the price of its improvement. whereas findings highlighted a few present demanding situations with the reuse alternative, one end is that ADL can foster extra reuse by way of taking a proactive procedure in aiding education improvement businesses which are trying to enforce a reuse method.

By Eric Larson, David Orletsky, Kristin Leuschner

All of the 3 protection reports of the decade fell wanting absolutely apprehending the calls for of the rising probability surroundings, and the budgets that will be wanted and afforded, leading to a starting to be imbalance among process, forces, and assets over the last decade.

By Anita Anand

In 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh used to be born into royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was once inheritor to the dominion of the Sikhs, a realm that stretched from the plush Kashmir Valley to the craggy foothills of the Khyber move and integrated the potent towns of Lahore and Peshawar. It used to be a territory impossible to resist to the British, who plundered every thing, together with the fabled Koh-I-Noor diamond.

Exiled to England, the dispossessed Maharajah reworked his property at Elveden in Suffolk right into a Moghul palace, its grounds stocked with leopards, monkeys and unique birds. Sophia, god-daughter of Queen Victoria, was once raised a genteel aristocratic Englishwoman: provided at court docket, afforded grace-and-favour accommodations at Hampton court docket Palace and photographed donning the newest models for the society pages. but if, in mystery defiance of the British govt, she travelled to India, she back a revolutionary.

Sophia transcended her background to commit herself to struggling with injustice and inequality,a a ways cry from the lifestyles to which she used to be born. Her motives have been the fight for Indian independence, the destiny of the Lascars, the welfare of Indian infantrymen within the First global conflict -- and, chiefly, the struggle for woman suffrage. She was once daring and fearless, attacking politicians, placing herself within the entrance line and swapping her silks for a nurse's uniform to have a tendency wounded infantrymen evacuated from the battlefields. Meticulously researched and passionately written, this captivating tale of the increase of girls and the autumn of empire introduces a unprecedented person and her half within the defining moments of modern British and Indian historical past.

By Edward G. Keating

By National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, Committee on Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century

This is the 1st document of 7 within the demanding situations for the Chemical Sciences within the twenty first Century sequence. The file relies on discussions and displays at a workshop, and is meant to aid scientists and investment companies set brief- and long term learn agendas. It makes a speciality of the demanding situations for chemists and chemical engineers with appreciate to risk relief, coaching, situational wisdom, and chance neutralization and remediation

By Maryse Gaimard (auth.)

This e-book offers an summary of the health and wellbeing of constructing international locations within the early twenty-first century. the elemental assumption is that the future health of a inhabitants isn't self reliant of broader demographic developments, and does keep on with the future health transition version. The assurance is wide, starting from health and wellbeing transition in constructing nations, to the well-being of girls, to an research of morbidity. inhabitants healthiness is an integral part of human and social improvement. As either a method and an finish of improvement, well-being lies on the center of underdevelopment, and ranks first at the record of overseas priorities. The WHO slogan ‘Health for all in 2000’ displays the spirit of a extra common flow in want of overall healthiness promoting through the international. however the constructing global is much from achieving this goal. The overall healthiness of populations has more advantageous in constructing areas yet there are nonetheless deep inequalities, and critical difficulties stay, specifically in Sub-Saharan Africa. After reviewing the center suggestions of inhabitants future health, the publication examines well-being transition in constructing nations, a strategy that has led to a double burden of illnesses. A dialogue of mortality in constructing international locations serves to focus on the excessive premiums of kid mortality in those areas. The ebook devotes an entire bankruptcy to women’s health and wellbeing, and its chapter-length research of morbidity highlights the double burden weighing down constructing populations and concludes with an research of overall healthiness structures in constructing countries.

By Pernille Rieker

This new ebook tackles key questions: 1) How is the ecu functioning as a safety actor? 2) How and to what quantity is the european affecting nationwide defense identities?

Focusing at the 4 greatest Nordic states (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden), this incisive learn analyzes how and to what volume the ecu impacts nationwide defense identities. It exhibits how the european has constructed right into a specific form of protection actor that, as a result of its point of political integration, has an incredible impression on nationwide safeguard techniques and identities.

This new research applies a clean blend of integration concept, protection reviews and reviews of Europeanization. the most argument during this e-book is that, instead of adapting to the altering stipulations created through the tip of the chilly conflict, the Nordic states replaced their safety ways in keeping with the eu integration approach. It indicates how diversified stages within the put up chilly struggle ecu integration technique have stimulated the nationwide protection ways of Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway. whereas all 4 safety ways appear to have been Europeanized, the rate and the nature of those alterations appear to range as a result of a mixture of differing ties to the european and differing safety coverage traditions.

This new e-book can be of significant curiosity to all scholars of eu Defence, nationwide safeguard and of safeguard experiences mostly.

By Saul Takahashi

This ebook presents cutting edge considering from quite a few views at the very important human rights, human defense, and nationwide safeguard coverage problems with today―and how those concerns intersect.

• offers insightful, trained viewpoints through students in addition to coverage makers and practitioners on human rights, human safeguard, and nationwide protection, and the way those 3 components intersect

• provides leading edge, even provocative considering at the very important concerns dealing with nationwide and foreign coverage makers

• bargains varied opinion essays through specialists from quite a lot of disciplines, delivering a balanced method of the advanced concerns instead of a one-dimensional view

• Examines the intersections of themes reminiscent of poverty, migration, drug regulate, terrorism, environmental protection, and foreign crime with human rights, human safety, and nationwide safeguard coverage issues