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In this unique and innovative contribution to environmental security, an international team of scholars explore and estimate the intermediate-term security risks that climate change may pose for the United States, its allies and partners, and for regional and global order through the year 2030. In profiles of forty-two key countries and regions, each contributor considers the problems that climate change will pose for existing institutions and practices. By focusing on the conduct of individual states or groups of nations, the results add new precision to our understanding of the way environmental stress may be translated into political, social, economic, and military challenges in the future. Countries and regions covered in the book include China, Vietnam, The Philippines, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Central Asia, the European Union, the Persian Gulf, Egypt, Turkey, the Maghreb, West Africa, Southern Africa, the Northern Andes, and Brazil.

This article appeared in Strategic Insights, v.9, issue 2 (Fall 2010) pp. 4-12 ; The essay that follows is based on the introduction to the forthcoming V. titled Climate Change and National Security: A Country-Level Analysis, edited by Daniel Moran (Georgetown University Press, 2011), and is reprinted with the permission of the publisher and copyright holder (www.press.georgetown.edu). The book in turn is based on the revised and expanded proceedings of a conference held at the Naval Postgraduate School in December 2007, and sponsored by the Long-Range Analysis Unit of the National Intelligence Council, to support the preparation of the National Intelligence Assessment on Climate Change presented to the United States House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming) in June 2008.

Esta investigación describe la propuesta de educación popular que los grupos de poder criollos de Lima y el Río de la Plata difundieron en la prensa política, educando al ciudadano, evitando el desenfreno de las clases populares y estableciendo la legitimidad del orden social y la autoridad política en la coyuntura revolucionaria de las guerras de independencia. Palabras clave Prensa, independencia, Lima, Río de la Plata y educación popular. EDUCATING THE CITIZEN: THE POWER OF THE PRESS AND THE POPULAR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM IN LIMA AN RIO DE LA PLATA WITHIN A REVOLUTIONARY CONTEXT, 1808-1816 ABSTRACTThis research considers the popular folk power groups of Lima education proposal and the Rio de la Plata broadcast on the political press educating citizens, avoiding the rampage of grass-roots and setting the legitimacy of the social order and the political authority in the revolutionary situation of wars of independence. KEY WORDS Press, independence, Lima, Río de la Plata, popular education.

Paul Aussaresses, The Battle of the Casbah: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Algeria, 1955–1957, trans. by Robert L. Miller. New York: Enigma Books, 2002. 185 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Daniel Moran, Naval Postgraduate School ; In 1957, French soldiers tortured approximately 40 percent of the male population of the Muslim quarter of Algiers to try to root out the terrorist network of the Algerian National Liberation Front (known to history as the FLN). This campaign, although shadowy and shrouded in euphemism, was not, strictly speaking, secret. Systematic torture in Algeria was the subject of widespread public comment at the time—one French general was relieved of his command after condemning it in the press—and it has attracted a good deal of scholarly investigation since. Several major participants, including the commanding ofªcer in Algiers, General Jacques Massu, have written about it, for the most part unapologetically. Their frankness has been facilitated by the blanket amnesty issued by the French government in 1968, absolving all those who served in Algeria of whatever crimes they may have committed there.