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This is a study of Austen Chamberlain's term of office as Stanley Baldwin's Foreign Secretary from 1924-29. It is argued that Chamberlain's priority was a two-stage policy in Western Europe, which aimed at pacifying both France and Germany, as well as encouraging the League of Nations

This work shows the importance of analysing the ""low"" politics of areas that have traditionally been dominated by ""high"" politics. The role of bodies such as the Liberal Summer School and the Women's Liberal Federation are examined, along with the work of thinkers such as JM Keynes

PART I The lethal risks context and how they are managed: Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Methodology -- Chapter 3 Risk Management and Lethal Risks – Organizational -- Chapter 4 Risk Management – Tactical -- PART II The nature of lethal risks between 1886 and 2019: Chapter 5 Environmental Variables: Population, Officer Numbers and Who Faces Lethal Risk? -- Chapter 6 Analysis: 1886 to 1999 (Publicly Available Reporting) -- Chapter 7 Analysis: 1886 to 1999 (Publicly Available Reporting) -- PART III Observations and thoughts regarding the research and the future: Chapter 8 Observations -- Chapter 9 Where To From Here? -- Chapter 10 Conclusion.

Counseling Youth: Systemic Issues and Interventions highlights the nature of counseling youth and implementing interventions that address a wide range of resources and issues, such as academic progress and achievement; emotional and behavioral problems; and overall behaviors that impact physical and emotional well-being. Addressed are these aforementioned issues by highlighting the roles of various systems, including schools, mental health facilities, medical facilities, juvenile justice systems, and refugee services, as well as services geared to special populations, such as LGBT+ youth and undocumented immigrant minors.

The current economic and technological environment requires making difficult choices about technology investments. Technologies that could be critical to meeting the enduring challenges faced by the Department of the Air Force are proliferating and developing at an accelerating pace. In some cases, these technologies have dual-use applications that are the focus of commercial activity in the United States and abroad. Current and potential adversaries, especially those with near-peer capacity, are developing increasingly robust capabilities to challenge U.S. dominance. U.S. government and civilian organizations face budget constraints that will require choices to be made about which of the gamut of technologies to invest in to meet these challenges. A systematic method of comparing and evaluating technology options to ensure that limited resources are invested wisely is needed. This report summarizes a framework and process to characterize and compare potential game-changing technologies (GCTs) based on the likely operational advantage given specific technological capabilities and concepts of operation or implementation. The objective of framework and process was to maximize the value of government or private-sector investments by providing a means for preliminary guidance on investments in technologies with the greatest consequence. Comparisons of GCTs in this framework are based on assessments of performance in validated analyses, modeling, or simulations in comparison with baseline technologies. However, comparisons go beyond performance to also consider the research, development, and implementation challenges, as well as costs associated with achieving, fielding, and sustaining the GCT capabilities that could lead to the greatest increase in operational advantage

1. Introduction -- Section I: Modeling Christ Groups -- 2. Greco-Roman philosphic, religious, and voluntary associations -- 3. Paul, synagogues, and associations: Reframing the question of models for Pauline Christ Groups -- 4. Voluntary associations and the formation of Pauline Christian communities: Overcoming the objections -- 5. Translocal relationships among voluntary associations and Early Christianity -- 6. "Map-maker, map-maker, make me a map ...": Redescribing Greco-Roman "Elective Social Formations" -- 7. The Thessalonian Christian community as a professional voluntary association -- 8. Matthew and community formation -- Section II: Recruitment -- 9. Redescribing the Thessalonians "Mission" in light of Greco-Roman associations -- 10. Defing community-ethos in light of the 'Other': Recruitment rhetoric among Greco-Roman associations -- 11. "A place to stand, a place to grow": Architectural and epigraphic evidence for expansion in Greco-Roman associations -- Section III: Meals and Memorials -- 12. Forms of commensality in Greco-Roman associations -- 13. Social and political charateristics of Greco-Roman association meals -- 14. The Apostolic decree of Acts and Greco-Roman associations: Eating in the shadow of the Roman Empire -- 15. A question of death: Paul's community-building language in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 -- 16. Of memories and meals: Greco-Roman associations and the early Jesus-group at Thessalonikē -- 17. Benefaction gone wrong: The "sin" of Ananias and Sapphira in context.

This book is Volume II of a two-volume set on antitrust policy, analyzing the economic efficiency and moral desirability of various kinds of antitrust-policy-coverable conduct and various possible government responses to such conduct, including US and EU antitrust law. The overall study consists of three parts. Part I (Chapters 1-8) introduces readers to the economic, moral, and legal concepts that play important roles in antitrust-policy analysis. Part II (Chapters 9-16) analyzes the impacts of eight types of conduct covered by antitrust policy and various possible government responses to such conduct in terms of their economic efficiency, their impact on liberal moral rights, and their instantiation of various utilitarian and other egalitarian conceptions of the moral good. Part III (Chapters 17-18) provides detailed information on US antitrust law and EU competition law and compares the extent to which—when correctly interpreted and applied—these two bodies of law could increase economic efficiency, protect liberal moral rights, and instantiate various morally defensible conceptions of the moral good. This second volume contains the last 6 chapters of Part II, which focus respectively on horizontal (M&A)s, conglomerate (M&A)s, surrogates for vertical integration, vertical (M&A)s, joint ventures, and internal growth and Part III, which focuses on US antitrust law and EU competition law. The book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students of economics and law who are interested in welfare economics, antitrust policy, and The General Theory of Second Best.

This book challenges the notion that the New Zealand Police are one of only four global police services that does not have routinely armed officers, using arguments and facts drawn from 2000 to 2019, a period of important change for the organisation and its relationship with firearms, particularly following the outrages of the Christchurch mosques terrorist massacres in 2019, and the 2020 shooting death of a young police constable in Aotearoa New Zealand. This book provides a brief history of the Police from its beginnings to the present day with a specific focus on its relationship with firearms, which contextualize the law that justifies use of lethal force in a country that has abolished the death penalty. It examines police policies, procedures, training and structures governing deployment and use of firearms in Aotearoa New Zealand, and the independent oversight that now applies to fatal and non-fatal shootings by Police. Using 43 publicly released oversight agency reports and data directly related to police shootings, such as who is being shot, this book investigates how the police are using lethal force, who is being affected, and what this might mean for the service with regards to the operational deployment of firearms and the potential for use of lethal force within the community into the future. Contemporary discussion on law, policy, procedure, training and structures, while still providing historical perspective; Examination of when, where, why and how New Zealand Police resort to and use lethal force; Questioning of the traditional view of the Police as routinely unarmed, and consideration of what further steps may be useful for New Zealand Police to consider when it comes to delivery of a fit for purpose armed response to dangerous events.

Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Problematizing our Relations with Media Technologies / Richard S. Lewis -- Part I. Situating the Interdisciplinary Concepts. 2. Situating Media Literacy Download Richard S. Lewis ; 3. Understanding the Medium Through the Technological Relation / Richard S. Lewis ; 4. The Posthuman: Situating the Subject in Human-Tech Relations / Richard S. Lewis -- Part II. Developing a Posthuman Approach: A Framework and Instrument 5. Developing the Intrasubjective Mediating Framework / Richard S. Lewis -- 6. Developing an Instrument to Leverage the Framework / Richard S. Lewis ; 7. Conclusion / Richard S. Lewis -- References -- List of Tables and Illustrations -- Index.

This book is Volume I of a two-volume set on antitrust policy, analyzing the economic efficiency and moral desirability of various tests for antitrust legality, including those promulgated by US and EU antitrust law. The overall study consists of three parts. Part I (Chapters 1-8) introduces readers to the economic, moral, and legal concepts that play important roles in antitrust-policy analysis. Part II (Chapters 9-16) analyzes the impacts of eight types of conduct covered by antitrust policy and various possible government responses to such conduct in terms of economic efficiency, the securing of liberal moral rights, and the instantiation of various utilitarian, non-utilitarian-egalitarian, and mixed conceptions of the moral good. Part III (Chapters 17-18) provides detailed information on US antitrust law and EU competition law, and compares the extent to which—when correctly interpreted and applied—these two bodies of law could ensure economic efficiency, protect liberal moral rights, and instantiate various morally defensible conceptions of the moral good. This first volume contains Part I and the first two chapters of Part II of the overall study—the two chapters that focus on oligopolistic and predatory conduct of all kinds, respectively. The book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students of economics and law who are interested in welfare economics, antitrust legality and the General Theory of the Second Best.