Search results

Intro -- BUFFER STATES POWER POLICIES, FOREIGN POLICIES AND CONCEPTS -- BUFFER STATES POWER POLICIES, FOREIGN POLICIES AND CONCEPTS -- IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter One THE BUFFER CONCEPT -- Chapter Two THE GEOGRAPHICAL AND ETHNO-CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BUFFER STATES -- Chapter Three THE GEOPOLITICAL LOCATION OF BUFFER STATES. GEORGIA - A BUFFER? -- Chapter Four THE POWER AND THE WEAKNESS OF BUFFER STATES -- Chapter Five POWER POLITICS AND BUFFER STATES -- Chapter Six THE FOREIGN POLICIES OF BUFFER STATES -- Chapter Seven THE BUFFER SYSTEM -- CONCLUSION -- ANNEX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Blank Page.

This collection of original essays takes a comprehensive look at Latin America's regional and global foreign policies. The book begins with an assessment of the current state of research in the field, followed by an overview of Latin American foreign policies and the political determinants of those policies. Next, an examination of the global policies of Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, and Peru demonstrates differing theoretical perspectives and provides information for cross national comparisons. The third section presents case studies of regional foreign policies in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba, and the Anglophone Caribbean nations. In the concluding chapter, the editors review the recurring themes in the book and propose a theory for the analysis of Latin American foreign policy behavior.

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Foreign Policies of Arab States -- 1 Foreign Policy Analysis in the Global Era and the World of the Arabs -- 2 Foreign Policy Approaches and Arab Countries: A Critical Evaluation and an Alternative Framework -- Notes -- 3 Globalization and Arab Foreign Policies: Constraints or Marginalization? -- 4 From Arab System to Middle Eastern System?: Regional Pressures and Constraints -- 5 Regional Leadership: Balancing off Costs and Dividends in the Foreign Policy of Egypt -- 6 Foreign Policy under Occupation: Does Iraq Need a Foreign Policy?

As the Chinese economy grows, Chinese people&rsquo ; s environmental behavior enormously affects the environment of neighboring countries as well as China. Many studies have related environmental behavior to personal characteristics such as environmental knowledge and attitude or to national policies such as environmental taxes and regulations. Few studies have looked at how regional factors affect residents&rsquo ; environmental behaviors, particularly for China. This is a substantive gap in the literature regarding the effects of regional governments on resident behavior at a closer distance via different mechanisms than the national government. This paper examines determinants of individual pro-environmental behavior (PEB) in terms of regional attributes as well as personal characteristics in China. For this purpose, we applied a multi-level regression model that regresses the degree of PEB on both individual and regional level factors, using Chinese General Social Survey data and the China Environment Yearbook data for the year 2010. The analysis shows that environmental attitude, willingness to pay for the environment, objective and subjective environmental knowledge, and environmental risk perception all promote PEB at the individual level. These results are in line with the existing literature on environmental behavior. In addition, at the regional level, environmental budgets, administrative enforcement, and economic development have positive impacts on resident PEB, while environmental pollution has a negative effect. Specifically, the levels of regional economic development and administrative enforcement not only directly affect behavior, but also indirectly affect behavior by controlling the influence of individual level variables. This means that the relationships between individual level variables and environmental behavior can be changed by regional contextual factors. These results suggest that regional government efforts for the environment can effectively promote PEB.

U.S. Nat'l Agr. Libr. ; Earlier ed. by U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service. ; Cover title. ; Mode of access: Internet.