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Propaganda: Can A Word Decide A War?, Dennis M. Murphy, James F. White Aug 2007

Propaganda: Can A Word Decide A War?, Dennis M. Murphy, James F. White

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Security Requirements For Post-Transition Cuba, Alex Crowther Dr. Aug 2007

Security Requirements For Post-Transition Cuba, Alex Crowther Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

Change is inevitable in Cuba. Both Fidel Castro and his brother Raul are aging. Their passing will trigger either a succession or a transition. Eventually Cuba will change. With that change, the security requirements of Cuba will change as well. This monograph provides an analysis of security requirements that the new Cuba will face and makes proposals on what missions and structure the Cuban security forces might have after a transition. The overall long-range US goal is a stable, democratic Cuba which is integrated into the global market economy. The U.S. Government Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba says …


Book Reviews, Parameters Editors Aug 2007

Book Reviews, Parameters Editors

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Strategic Communication, Richard Halloran Aug 2007

Strategic Communication, Richard Halloran

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


International Humanitarian Law And Interventions—Rwanda, 1994, Elizabeth More Aug 2007

International Humanitarian Law And Interventions—Rwanda, 1994, Elizabeth More

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

International humanitarian law (IHL) applies to armed conflicts between and within states. It focuses on constraining the parties involved in such conflict to minimize human suffering, both of combatants and civilians, and, in so doing, is complemented by international human-rights law (IHRL). Recent events show the difficulties in implementing and enforcing both IHL and IHRL, and debate has escalated on whether or not such laws provide any basis for intervention, including, most controversially, military intervention. This article reinforces earlier arguments that the 1994 Rwandan genocide demonstrates a failure to uphold both IHL and IHRL in the face of genocide and …


Latin America's New Security Reality: Irregular Asymmetric Conflict And Hugo Chavez, Max G. Manwaring Dr. Aug 2007

Latin America's New Security Reality: Irregular Asymmetric Conflict And Hugo Chavez, Max G. Manwaring Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

In 2005, Dr. Manwaring wrote a monograph entitled Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Bolivarian Socialism, and Asymmetric Warfare. It came at a time when the United States and Venezuela were accelerating a verbal sparing match regarding which country was destabilizing Latin America more. President Chavez shows no sign of standing down; he slowly and deliberately centralizes his power in Venezuela, and carefully and adroitly articulates his Bolivarian dream (the idea of a Latin American Liberation Movement against U.S. economic and political imperialism). Yet, most North Americans dismiss Chavez as a “nut case,” or—even if he is a threat to the security and …


Right Sizing The People's Liberation Army: Exploring The Contours Of China's Military, Andrew Scobell Dr., Roy Kamphausen Mr. Aug 2007

Right Sizing The People's Liberation Army: Exploring The Contours Of China's Military, Andrew Scobell Dr., Roy Kamphausen Mr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

This volume addresses how the leadership of China and the PLA view what size of PLA best meets China’s requirements. Among other things, this analytical process makes important new contributions on the question of PLA transparency, long an issue among PLA watchers. A great deal of emphasis has been put on understanding not only how, but also why a military modernizes itself. Some of the determining factors are national policies and strategy, doctrine, organizational structure, missions, and service cultures. While this list is not exhaustive, it does begin to paint a picture of just how broad and deep military interests …


Right Sizing The People's Liberation Army: Exploring The Contours Of China's Military, Andrew Scobell Dr., Roy Kamphausen Mr. Aug 2007

Right Sizing The People's Liberation Army: Exploring The Contours Of China's Military, Andrew Scobell Dr., Roy Kamphausen Mr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

This volume addresses how the leadership of China and the PLA view what size of PLA best meets China’s requirements. Among other things, this analytical process makes important new contributions on the question of PLA transparency, long an issue among PLA watchers. A great deal of emphasis has been put on understanding not only how, but also why a military modernizes itself. Some of the determining factors are national policies and strategy, doctrine, organizational structure, missions, and service cultures. While this list is not exhaustive, it does begin to paint a picture of just how broad and deep military interests …


The Dual Career Of “Arirang”: The Korean Resistance Anthem That Became A Japanese Pop Hit, E. Taylor Atkins Aug 2007

The Dual Career Of “Arirang”: The Korean Resistance Anthem That Became A Japanese Pop Hit, E. Taylor Atkins

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

“Arirang” is known worldwide as the quintessential Korean folk song. Its iconic status in contemporary Korea derives from its perceived role in strengthening Korean resolve to resist the cultural violence of the Japanese colonial occupation (1905–45). A musical “skeleton” capable of countless improvised variations and interpretations, some “Arirangs” explicitly assailed the Japanese and thus were censored by colonial authorities. However, in the 1930s and 1940s, precisely the time when assimilationist pressures in colonial Korea were intensifying, Japanese songsmiths, singers, and recording companies released “Arirang” renditions in prodigious quantities, sometimes in collaboration with Korean performers. “Arirang” became the most familiar song …


Incorporating Neighborhood Social Patterns Into Neighborhood Planning Models, Paul Duggan Aug 2007

Incorporating Neighborhood Social Patterns Into Neighborhood Planning Models, Paul Duggan

All Theses

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Neighborhood models and patterns are used by developers, planners, and urban designers to plan new neighborhoods and guide the revitalization of older ones. Models are typically based on theories about ideal communities and frequently include significant social objectives.
Comparing neighborhood models with studies of neighborhood life, reveals that neighborhood social and behavioral patterns do not always fit the plan or social objectives of the proposed neighborhood models. There is a gap between the objectives and vision of the models and the patterns of life in the neighborhood. Social patterns such as neighboring, urban cognition, travel preferences and personal meaning …


Setting The Background: An Assessment From North Of The Border, James R. Payton Jr. Aug 2007

Setting The Background: An Assessment From North Of The Border, James R. Payton Jr.

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Understanding Chinese Business Behaviour: A Historical Perspective, Taieb Hafsi, Li Yan Aug 2007

Understanding Chinese Business Behaviour: A Historical Perspective, Taieb Hafsi, Li Yan

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

The behaviour of Chinese business has been studied by a variety of strategic management scholars (see in particular Hafsi and Tian, 2005; Peng, 2006; Peng and Heat, 1996). Most of these studies rely on traditional data gathering, either in the form of interviews or published data banks. Very little attention has been given to history as a determinant of strategic behaviour. In this paper, we propose that the cognitive orientation of Chinese managers is dominated by their knowledge and understanding of Chinese history. We take the Three Kingdoms historic novel as a proxy to history to derive basic behavioral norms …


Introduction (Volume 83) Aug 2007

Introduction (Volume 83)

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Full Volume 83: Global Legal Challenges: Command Of The Commons, Strategic Communications, And Natural Disasters Aug 2007

Full Volume 83: Global Legal Challenges: Command Of The Commons, Strategic Communications, And Natural Disasters

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Piercing The Fog: National Security, Media, And The Govenrment, Harvey Rishikof Aug 2007

Piercing The Fog: National Security, Media, And The Govenrment, Harvey Rishikof

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Military And The Media In Perspective: Finding The Necessary Balance, James P. Terry Aug 2007

Military And The Media In Perspective: Finding The Necessary Balance, James P. Terry

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Reflections Of A Community Lawyer, Luz E. Herrera Aug 2007

Reflections Of A Community Lawyer, Luz E. Herrera

Faculty Scholarship

In May 2002, I opened a law office in one of the most underserved communities in Los Angeles County. Many questioned the sanity of such a career path when evaluating my financial stability and the personal toll that such a career path can exact. Given that I graduated from some of the best universities in the country, my friends, family, and strangers were even more perplexed at my choice. I cannot say that my decision to build a law practice in Compton, California, has been easy. However, time and time again, I found myself rejecting more secure and prestigious job …


A Post-Marxist Perspective On Chuck Palahniuk’S Early Novels And The Four Plays Of Incarcerated, Ron Riekki Aug 2007

A Post-Marxist Perspective On Chuck Palahniuk’S Early Novels And The Four Plays Of Incarcerated, Ron Riekki

Dissertations

Incarcerated: a collection of four plays includes the plays Home Schooling, Good Behavior, 2 Mics, and All Saints' Day. Incarcerated explores Foucault's carceral networking and Althusser's Ideological and Repressive State Apparatuses as exemplified in characters faced with such cataclysmic events as the Holocaust (Home Schooling and All Saints' Day) and the degradation/slavery of the American prison system (Good Behavior and 2 Mics). In this RCG-centered working class playwriting, we see how performativity is in inherent in carceral sociology, where each character in all four plays has to take masks and costumes and roles in order to …


Command Of The Commons Boast: An Invitation To Lawfer?, Craig H. Allen Aug 2007

Command Of The Commons Boast: An Invitation To Lawfer?, Craig H. Allen

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Austrialian Defense Experience With Non-Government Organizations In Humanitarian Assistance And Disaster Relief Operations, Evan Carlin Aug 2007

Austrialian Defense Experience With Non-Government Organizations In Humanitarian Assistance And Disaster Relief Operations, Evan Carlin

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Experimental Comparison Of Peer-To-Peer Streaming Overlays: An Application Perspective, Jeff Seibert, Davied Zae, Sonia Fahmy, Cristina Nita-Rotaru Jul 2007

Experimental Comparison Of Peer-To-Peer Streaming Overlays: An Application Perspective, Jeff Seibert, Davied Zae, Sonia Fahmy, Cristina Nita-Rotaru

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


The Cord Weekly (July 18, 2007) Jul 2007

The Cord Weekly (July 18, 2007)

The Cord

No abstract provided.


Navajo Baskets And The American Indian Voice: Searching For The Contemporary Native American In The Trading Post, The Natural History Museum, And The Fine Art Museum, Laura Paulsen Howe Jul 2007

Navajo Baskets And The American Indian Voice: Searching For The Contemporary Native American In The Trading Post, The Natural History Museum, And The Fine Art Museum, Laura Paulsen Howe

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the display of Navajo baskets and examines some of the possible meanings Navajo baskets can reveal. Acknowledging that the meaning of a work of art changes when it is placed in different environments, the thesis explores what meanings are revealed and what meanings are concealed in basket displays in three venues: the trading post, the natural history museum, and the fine art museum. The study concludes that the fine art museum has the most potential to foster a dialogue about the contemporary Navajo, whose identity is a product of continuity and change. Chapter one discusses the basket's …


The Daily Egyptian, July 17, 2007, Daily Egyptian Staff Jul 2007

The Daily Egyptian, July 17, 2007, Daily Egyptian Staff

July 2007

No abstract provided.


Statistical Considerations In Designing For Biomarker Detection, Trenton C. Pulsipher Jul 2007

Statistical Considerations In Designing For Biomarker Detection, Trenton C. Pulsipher

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this project is to develop a statistical method for use in rapid detection of biological agents using portable gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC/MS) devices. Of particular interest is 2,6-pyridinedicarboxylic acid (dipicolinic acid, or DPA), a molecule that is present at high concentrations in spores of Clostridium and Bacillus, the latter of which includes the threat organism Bacillus anthracis, or anthrax. Dipicolinic acid may be useful as a first-step discriminator of the biological warfare agent B. anthracis. The results of experiments with B. anthracis Sterne strain and Bacillus thuringiensis spores lead to a conceptual model for the chemical …


Editorial, Gwenyth E. Hood Jul 2007

Editorial, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Nation Building: Bede’S Historia Ecclesiastica And The Use Of Old Testament Tradition, Greg Laing Jul 2007

Nation Building: Bede’S Historia Ecclesiastica And The Use Of Old Testament Tradition, Greg Laing

Faculty Research and Publications

The paper addresses how Bede's history regarding the use of Roman walls is influenced by his work as a biblical exegete. The major contention is that Bede uses the Old Testament religious tradition of Nehemiah and Ezra, regarding the rebuilding of Jerusalem's fortifications, as a template for his comments regarding British and Anglo-Saxon defences in the Historia Ecclesiastica. Through an examination of Bede's exegetical work In Esdram et Nehemiam the military passages of the Historia Ecclesiastica are given even greater religious significance. This understanding of the history links Bede's comments regarding the decline of British military strength more closely …


Most Popular Downloads -- June 2007 Jul 2007

Most Popular Downloads -- June 2007

Institutional Repository Information

The 240 most-downloaded documents for June from the UNL Digital Commons(downloaded at least 20 times).
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Recycle Please: Teach Your School To Recycle, To Care, And To Help Solve The Climate Crisis, Ted Wells Jul 2007

Recycle Please: Teach Your School To Recycle, To Care, And To Help Solve The Climate Crisis, Ted Wells

Graduate Student Independent Studies

This Independent Study offers one developmentally-appropriate way in which the elementary school teacher can help alleviate the current global warming crisis by leading students to organize a school-wide recycling program carried out in the spirit of service learning. The reader will learn that this recycling work is two-pronged: the physical labor of recycling and the educational outreach to the school community through marketing, using posters, assemblies, videos, and more. A philosophy of education underlying this work is described in detail, as is the journey of the author in discovering this pedagogy that includes tapping into a personal environmental activism for …


Youngstown, Hamdan, And "Inherent" Emergency Presidential Policymaking Powers, Gordon G. Young Jul 2007

Youngstown, Hamdan, And "Inherent" Emergency Presidential Policymaking Powers, Gordon G. Young

Faculty Scholarship

This brief article explores the contribution that Hamdan v Rumsfeld may have made to clarifying what should happen in the large interstices of the rules created by the Youngstown case for determining the validity of claims of Presidential power. It offers its own view of the scope of Presidential powers in extreme emergencies involving the incapacitation of the legislative branch.