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Foreword. - Preface. - Tables & Figures. - Part 1. Introduction and Conceptual Framework. - (D.L. Kgathi, M.B.K. Darkoh and B.N. Ngwenya). - Part II. Livelihood patterns in the Okavango delta. - 1. Historical trends in livelihoods patterns in the Okavango delta, Botswana. - (J.E. Mbaiwa, K. Mosepele, H. Bendsen and D. L Kgathi). - 2. Livelihood Activities And Income Portfolios In Rural Areas Of The Okavango Delta, Botswana. - (D. L. Kgathi and M. R. Motsholapheko). - 3. Shocks and Rural Livelihoods in The Okavango Delta, Botswana. - (D. L. Kgathi, B. N. Ngwenya and J. Wilk). - 4. Indigenous Knowledge, Livelihoods and Government Policy. - (L. Cassidy, J. Wilk, D. L Kgathi, H. Bendsen, B. N Ngwenya, and K. Mosepele). - 5. An Assessment Of Plant Based Natural Resources in The Okavango Region, Botswana Using Satellite Imagery. - (T. Meyer, L. Cassidy, S. Ringrose, C. Vanderpost, D. L. Kgathi, B. N. Ngwenya, H. Bendsen, W. Matheson, T. Kemosidile ). - Part III. Access to natural resources and environmental outcomes. - 6. Property rights and access to natural resources in conservation areas of the Okavango delta, Botswana. - (D.L Kgathi, Bolaane M. and S. Mosojane). - 7. Contending With Unequal and Privileged Access to Natural Resources and Land in The Okavango Delta, Botswana. - (J. E. Mbaiwa, B. N. Ngwenya and D. L. Kgathi). - 8. The Political Ecology of Biodiversity Conservation In The Okavango Delta. - (P.K. Kgomotso). - 9. Natural Resource Competition and Conflicts In The Okavango Delta, Botswana. - (J. E. Mbaiwa and M B.K. Darkoh). - Part IV: Natural Resources Management Institutions and Policies. - 10. Land Boards and Land Management In Ngamiland District, Botswana. - (G. Mmopelwa). - 11. Traditional Leaders and Natural Resources Management in Ngamiland, Botswana. - (D. L Kgathi and B N. Ngwenya). - 12. Traditional public assembly (kgotla) and natural resources management in Ngamiland,Botswana. - (B. N. Ngwenya and D. L. Kgathi). - 13. Village Level Institutions at

The future of interfirm contract research : opportunities based on prior research and nontraditional tools / Libby Weber, Kyle J. Mayer, Rui Wu -- Reprinted article putting patents in context : exploring knowledge transfer from MIT / Ajay K. Agrawal, Rebecca Henderson -- Alliances and performance / Joanne E. Oxley -- Reprinted article appropriability hazards and governance in strategic alliances : a transaction cost approach / Joanne E. Oxley -- A strategic look at the organizational form of franchising / Steven C. Michael, Janet E.L. Bercovitz -- Internal organization from a transaction cost perspective / Nicholas S. Argyres -- Organizational economics insights from acquisitions research / Jeffrey J. Reuer -- Limits to the scale and scope of the firm / Todd R. Zenger, Jeffrey Xiaofei Huang -- Diversification, industry structure, and firm strategy : an organizational economics perspective / Peter G. Klein, Lasse B. Lien -- Transaction costs in technology transfer and implications for strategy / Ajay K. Agrawal -- Intellectual property regimes and firm strategy : putting Hall and Ziedonis (2001) in perspective / Rosemarie H. Ziedonis -- Reprinted article the patent paradox revisited : an empirical study of patenting in the U.S. semiconductor industry, 1979-1995 / Bronwyn H. Hall, Rosemarie H. Ziedonis -- Value creation and appropriation through geographic strategy : evidence from foreign direct investment / Miguel A. Ramos, J. Myles Shaver -- Strategic organization of R&D / Bruno Cassiman, Alfonso Gambardella -- Beyond the economic institutions of strategy : strategic responses to institutional variation / Witold J. Henisz -- Reprinted article the institutional environment for multinational investment / Witold J. Henisz -- Integrated political strategy / John M. de Figueiredo -- Contracting with governments / Eric Brousseau, St(c)Øephane Saussier -- New frontiers in strategic management of organizational change / Jackson A. Nickerson, Brian S. Silverman -- Opportunities and new business models : transaction cost and property rights perspectives on entrepreneurship / Nils Stieglitz, Nicolai J. Foss -- The problem solving perspective : a strategic approach to understanding environment and organization / Michael J. Leiblein, Jeffrey T. Macher -- Foreword to economic institutions of strategy / Oliver E. Williamson -- Introduction / Jackson A. Nickerson, Brian S. Silverman

Albert Einstein famously remarked that he did not know what weapons would be used in World War III, but World War IV would be fought with sticks and stones. In this volume, a distinguished group of scholars, government officials, politicians, journalists, and statesmen examine what can be learned from the wars of the twentieth century, and how that knowledge might help us as we step ever so perilously into the twenty-first. Following an introduction by Padraig O'Malley, the book is divided into four sections: Understanding the World as We Have Known It; Global Uncertainties; Whose Values? Whose Justice?; and Shaping a New World. The first section reviews what we have learned about war and establishes benchmarks for judging whether that knowledge is being translated into changes in the behaviour of our political cultures. It suggests that the world's premier superpower, in its effort to promote Western-style democracy, has taken steps that have inhibited rather than facilitated democratization. The second section examines the war on terror and the concept of global war.; From the essays in this section emerges a consensus that democracy as practiced in the West cannot be exported to countries with radically different cultures, traditions, and values. The third section visits the question of means and ends in the context of varying value systems and of theocracy, democracy, and culture. In the final section, the focus shifts to our need for global institutions to maintain order and assist change in the twenty-first century. Although each contributor comes from a different starting point, speaks with a different voice, and has a different ideological perspective, the essays reach startlingly similar conclusions. In sum, they find that the West has not absorbed the lessons from the wars of the last century, and is inadequately prepared to meet the new challenges that now confront us

Albert Einstein famously remarked that he did not know what weapons would be used in World War III, but World War IV would be fought with sticks and stones. In this volume, a distinguished group of scholars, government officials, politicians, journalists, and statesmen examine what can be learned from the wars of the twentieth century, and how that knowledge might help us as we step ever so perilously into the twenty-first. Following an introduction by Padraig O'Malley, the book is divided into four sections: Understanding the World as We Have Known It; Global Uncertainties; Whose Values? Whose Justice?; and Shaping a New World. The first section reviews what we have learned about war and establishes benchmarks for judging whether that knowledge is being translated into changes in the behaviour of our political cultures. It suggests that the world's premier superpower, in its effort to promote Western-style democracy, has taken steps that have inhibited rather than facilitated democratization. The second section examines the war on terror and the concept of global war.; From the essays in this section emerges a consensus that democracy as practiced in the West cannot be exported to countries with radically different cultures, traditions, and values. The third section visits the question of means and ends in the context of varying value systems and of theocracy, democracy, and culture. In the final section, the focus shifts to our need for global institutions to maintain order and assist change in the twenty-first century. Although each contributor comes from a different starting point, speaks with a different voice, and has a different ideological perspective, the essays reach startlingly similar conclusions. In sum, they find that the West has not absorbed the lessons from the wars of the last century, and is inadequately prepared to meet the new challenges that now confront us.

If you attended a Canadian university in the past eighty years, it's possible that, unbeknownst to you, Canadian security agents were surveying you, your fellow students, and your professors for 'subversive' tendencies and behaviour. Since the end of the First World War, members of the RCMP have infiltrated the campuses of Canada's universities and colleges to spy, meet informants, gather information, and on occasion, to attend classes. Why they were there is the subject of a new book by Steve Hewitt. Spying 101 provides new insight on the previously secret operations of one of Canada's most powerful institutions and best-known national symbols, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. For more than eighty years, the RCMP and its younger counterpart, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), have been conducting covert investigations within the hallowed halls of Canadian universities in an attempt to discover 'subversive' activity among faculty, employees, and students, and, periodically, to hunt for spies and terrorists. Information has been collected on thousands of Canadians, including prominent individuals such as Pierre Berton, Peter Gzowski, Lotta Hitschmanova, and RenT LTvesque. Spying 101 offers a fresh examination of the relationship in the intelligence field between the RCMP and federal departments, such as National Defence and External Affairs, and its political masters, including Pierre Trudeau. Hewitt also explores the complicity of the RCMP in the handling of the anti-APEC protests at the University of British Columbia in 1997 and offers an overview of the current work by Canada's intelligence services at the nation's universities. Relying on thousands of pages of previously secret RCMP and government documents, and on recollections of participants including former members of the RCMP Security Service, Spying 101 offers a vivid portrait of a crucial, yet unstudied, chapter in the history of the world's most famous police force.

More members of Congress have been investigated and sanctioned for ethical misconduct in the past decade and a half than in the entire previous history of the institution. But individual members are probably less corrupt than they once were. Stricter ethics codes and closer scrutiny by the press and public have imposed standards no previous representatives have had to face. Dennis Thompson shows how the institution itself is posing new ethical challenges, how the complexity of the environment in which members work creates new occasions for corruption and invites more calls for accountability. Instead of the individual corruption that has long been the center of attention, Thompson focuses on institutional corruption which refers to conduct that under certain conditions is an acceptable part of the job of a representative. Members are required to solicit campaign contributions, and they are expected to help constituents with their problems with government, but some ways of doing these jobs give rise to institutional corruption. The author moves the discussion beyond bribery, extortion, and simple personal gain to delve into implicit understandings, ambiguous favors, and political advantage. Thompson examines many major ethics cases of recent years. Among them: the case of David Durenberger, accused of supplementing his income through book promotions; the case of the Keating Five, accused of using undue influence with the Federal Home Loan Bank Board on behalf of Lincoln Savings and Loan owner Charles Keating; and the case of House Speaker James Wright, accused of several offenses. Thompson shows why neither the electoral process nor the judicial process is sufficient and argues for stronger ethics committees and the creation of a new quasi-independent body to take over some of the enforcement process. He offers more than a dozen recommendations

Main description: Throughout the nineteenth century, legal barriers to Jewish citizenship were lifted in Europe, enabling organized Jewish communities and individuals to alter radically their relationships with the institutions of the Christian West. In this volume, one of the first to offer a comparative overview of the entry of Jews into state and society, eight leading historians analyze the course of emancipation in Holland, Germany, France, England, the United States, and Italy as well as in Turkey and Russia. The goal is to produce a systematic study of the highly diverse paths to emancipation and to explore their different impacts on Jewish identity, dispositions, and patterns of collective action.Jewish emancipation concerned itself primarily with issues of state and citizenship. Would the liberal and republican values of the Enlightenment guide governments in establishing the terms of Jewish citizenship? How would states react to Jews seeking to become citizens and to remain meaningfully Jewish? The authors examine these issues through discussions of the entry of Jews into the military, the judicial system, business, and academic and professional careers, for example, and through discussions of their assertive political activity.In addition to the editors, the contributors are Geoffrey Alderman, Hans Daalder, Werner E. Mosse, Aron Rodrigue, Dan V. Segre, and Michael Stanislawski.Originally published in 1995.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Making Peace provides a fresh context for understanding gender relations in interwar Britain, seeing in the emergence of a powerful ideology of motherhood and a reemphasis on separate spheres for men and women a corollary to the political and economic restructuring designed to reestablish social order after World War I. The war had often been explained and justified to the British public by means of images that portrayed women as hostile or frightening—or as victims of sexual assault, as in the Belgian atrocity stories. These sexualized interpretations of war then shaped postwar understandings of gender, as psychiatrists, psychologists, and sexologists drew on metaphors of war to talk about relationships between men and women, likening any conflict between the sexes to the terrible chaos of the war years.Drawing on materials from posters to popular songs, from government reports to journalistic accounts, from memoirs and novels to diaries and letters, Making Peace is a penetrating analysis of how gendered and sexualized depictions of wartime expereinces compelled many Britons to seek in traditional gender arrangements the key to postwar order and security. In the interwar period, many feminists compromised their earlier positions in an effort to contribute to postwar recovery, and justified their demands—for birth control and family endowment, for example—in conservative terms that ultimately hampered their movement.Susan Kingsley Kent is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is also the author of Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914 (Princeton).Originally published in 1993.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

American immigrants are often considered symbols of hope and promise. Presidential candidates point to their immigrant roots, Ellis Island is celebrated as a national monument, and "the melting pot" remains a popular, if somewhat tarnished, American analogy. At the same time, images of impoverished Mexicans swarming across the Mexican-American border and boat-loads of desperate Haitian and urban refugees depict America as a nation under siege. While governments and business interests generally welcome aliens for the economic benefits the generate, the success of these groups paradoxically stirs distrust and envy leading to discrimination, oppression, and, in some cases, deportation. Surveying the political and economic history of American immigration, Thomas Muller compellingly argues that the clamor at America's gate should be a cause of pride, not anxiety; a sign of vigor, not an omen of decline. Illustrating that recent waves of immigration have facilitated urban renewal, Muller emphasizes the many ways in which aliens have lessened our cities' social problems rather than contributing to them. Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and San Francisco, traditional gateways to other continents, have all benefited from the contributions of immigrants. To assess perceived and actual costs of absorbing the new immigrants, Muller examines their impact on city income, housing, minority jobs, public services, and wages. But Muller argues that noneconomic concerns (such as recent attempts to formalize English as the country's official language) frequently mirror deeply rooted fears that could explain the cyclical pattern of American attitudes toward immigrants over the last three centuries. The nation, he contends, may again be turning inward, initiating a period of growing hostility toward the foreign-born. Nonetheless, higher entry levels for skilled immigrants would improve the technological standing of the U.S. increase the standard of living for the middle class, and facilitate the resurgence of our inner cities.

Vol. 1: Urata, S.: Economic growth and changing pattern of interdependence in the Pacific region. S. 29-85. Sakurai, M.: The trend of Japan's overseas direct investment: what are the determining factors. S. 87-119. Sato, H.: Foreign direct investment of Japanese corporations and its determinant. S. 121-149. Takenaka, H. ; Chida, R. ; Miyagaki, J.: Direct foreign investment of Japanese manufacturing industry. S. 151-177. Simanjuntak, D. S.: Economic development strategy of Indonesia and the role of direct foreign investment. S. 179-214. Simanjuntak, D. S.: Recent changes in Indonesia's policy on foreign direct investment. S. 215-238. Ali, A.: Economic development strategies in Malaysia: evaluation of the past and challenges ahead. S. 239-270. Lim, I.: Direct foreign investments in Malaysia. S. 271-319. Montes, M. F.: Visions and strategies for Philippine economic development. S. 321-371. Lim, J. Y.: Foreign direct investment in the Philippines during the eighties. S. 371-396. Lim Chong-yah ; Kapur, B. K.: Singapore's development strategy. S. 397-436. Lim Chong-Yah ; Soon Teck-Wong: Foreign direct investment in Singapore: current state, policies and impacts. S. 437-467 Vol. 2: Krongkaew, M.: Major developments of the Thai economy and the future outlook. S. 1-49. Krongkaew, M. ; Tambunlertchai, S.: Recent trends of Japanese direct investment in Thailand. S. 51-84. Koo Bon-Ho ; Kwack Tae-Hwan: Korea's economic development strategy. S. 85-110. Koo Bon-Ho ; Bark, T.: Recent trend, government policies and the economic impact of direct investment in Korea. S. 111-180. Yamakage, S.: From investment to integration. The political economy of foreign direct investment of Japanese enterprise in the ASEAN region. S. 181-204. Wu Rong-I: Economic development strategies and the role of direct foreign investment in Taiwan. S. 205-248

"The best way of handling the question of how much to give the poor, politicians have discovered, is to avoid doing anything about it at all," note Paul Peterson and Mark Rom. The issue of the minimum people need in order to live decently is so difficult that Congress has left this crucial question to the states--even though the federal government foots three-fourths of the bill for about 15 million Americans who receive cash and food stamp benefits. The states differ widely in their assessment of what a family needs to meet a reasonable standard of living, and the interstate differences in welfare benefits cannot be explained by variations in wage levels or costs of living. The states with higher welfare benefits act as magnets by attracting or retaining poor people. In the competition to avoid becoming welfare havens, states have cut welfare benefits in real dollars by more than one-third since 1970. The authors propose the establishment of a minimum federal welfare standard, which would both reduce the interstate variation in welfare benefits and stem their overall decline. Peterson and Rom develop their argument in four steps. First they show how the politics of welfare magnets works in a case study of policymaking in Wisconsin. Second, they present their analysis of the overall magnet effect in American state politics, finding evidence that states with high welfare benefits experiencing disproportionate growth in their poverty rates make deeper welfare cuts. Third, they describe the process by which the current system came into being, identifying the reform efforts and political crises that have contributed to the centralization of welfare policy as well as the regional, partisan, and group interests that have resisted these changes. Finally, the authors propose a practical step that can go a long way toward achieving a national welfare

Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. THE INTEGRATION OF LIFE IN THE OLD ORDER -- Chapter 1. Traditional Values and the Old Order -- 1. The Land, the Rivers, and the People -- 2. The Traditional Unity of Life and Work -- 3. Family, Community, and the Variations of Culture -- 4. Politics and Government -- PART II. CREATION OF THE NEW ORDER -- Chapter 2. The Engine of Growth -- 1. Expanding the Market -- 2. The Developers of Agriculture -- Chapter 3. The New Insecurities -- 1. The Invisible Hand -- 2. The New Tools -- 3. The New Competitors -- 4. The New Authorities and Secularism -- PART III. PRIMITIVE RESISTANCE TO THE NEW ORDER -- Chapter 4. The Law, Outlaws, and Railroads -- 1. The Civil War and the Crisis of Law and Authority -- 2. The Battle over Railroad Bonds -- 3. Jesse James, America's Classic Social Bandit -- 4. The Great Strike of 1877 and Ownership of Law -- Chapter 5. Communities, Economic Development, and Vigilantes -- 1. The Bald Knobbers of the 1880s -- 2. Race and Class War in the Bootheel -- PART IV. THE CULTURAL WAR -- Chapter 6. Discipline and Self-Discipline -- 1. Economic and Military Compulsions -- 2. The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Children -- Chapter 7. The Democratic Culture of Escape and Ragtime -- PART V. MUTUAL AID -- Chapter 8. The Protections of Church, Race, and Language -- 1. Immigrant Cultures and Mutual Aid -- 2. Segregation, Racial Control, and Mutual Aid -- 3. White Protestants and the Crises of Conduct and Control -- Chapter 9. The Fraternal and Cooperative Ethic of Mutual Aid -- PART VI. THE SEARCH FOR SECURITY IN THE NEW WORKPLACES -- Chapter 10. The Economic Organization of the New Order -- 1. The Organization of Business -- 2. The Organization of the Professions -- 3. The Organization of Labor -- PART VII. POLITICAL RESISTANCE IN THE NEW ORDER.

Independence and Deterrence , commissioned by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, continues the story of Britain's atomic project begun in Britain and Atomic Energy 1939-1945 , and covers the years from 1945 to the first British bomb test at the end of 1952. Volume 1 studies policy making at the highest levels - the strategic, political and international considerations, the administrative and constitutional machinery. It shows how and why Britain decided to make atomic bombs and follows traumatic negotiations for Anglo-American atomic collaboration and their effect on Britain's relations with Europe and the Commonwealth. There is important material on Anglo-Canadian affairs. The book sheds new light on Britain's rights to consultation on any American use of atmoic bombs. Volume 2 studies the execution of the project. It analyses the cost of the project in money and manpower, the problems of health and safety, secrecy and security, the relationship between government and private industry. Above all it gives a 'nuts and bolts' description of the work of the scientists and engineers in carrying out - with great success - a complex technological project operating on the furthest frontiers of knowledge, which culminated in making and testing the Mark I weapon. There is an illuminating chapter on the origins of Britian's nuclear power programme and her choice of reactor. These chapters emphasise not only ecomomic, managerial and technological aspects, but also the great influence of personalities. This is the first peacetime official history to be authorised for publication. It has been written with free access to official documents and very little has been modified or omitted on public interest grounds. Most of the material is completely new. Ronald Clark wrote of Britain and Atomic Energy , '[Mrs Gowning] has been able to let cats out of bags by the litterful'. This is even more true of Independence and Deterrence

Being concerned with representation, this book is about an idea, a concept, a word. It is primarily a conceptual analysis, not a historical study of the way in which representative government has evolved, nor yet an empirical investigation of the behavior of contemporary representatives or the expectations voters have about them. Yet, although the book is about a word, it is not about mere words, not merely about words. For the social philosopher, for the social scientist, words are not "mere"; they are the tools of his trade and a vital part of his subject matter. Since human beings are not merely political animals but also language-using animals, their behavior is shaped by their ideas. What they do and how they do it depends upon how they see themselves and their world, and this in turn depends upon the concepts through which they see. Learning what "representation" means and learning how to represent are intimately connected. But even beyond this, the social theorist sees the world through a network of concepts. Our words define and delimit our world in important ways, and this is particularly true of the world of human and social things. For a zoologist may capture a rare specimen and simply observe it; but who can capture an instance of representation (or of power, or of interest)? Such things, too, can be observed, but the observation always presupposes at least a rudimentary conception of what representation (or power, or interest) is, what counts as representation, where it leaves off and some other phenomenon begins. Questions about what representation is, or is like, are not fully separable from the question of what "representation" means. This book approaches the former questions by way of the latter.

I / The Growing Interdependence of Sumatra and the United States 1873 to the Present -- Political Interests at the start of the Atjeh War -- Eastern Sumatra Imports to the United States -- Native Agricultural Products Imported From Sumatra's East Coast -- Modern Plantation Crops of the East Coast of Sumatra -- The Interdependence of the United States and Sumatra -- II / Black Gold — The History of American Enterprise in Indonesian Oil Development -- Americans Establish the Kerosene Trade -- Americans Develop the First Sumatran Oil -- Standard Tries to get Sumatran Production -- Dissolution of Standard and Founding of N.K.P.M -- The American Government steps into the Djambi Oil Dispute -- Prewar Development by American Oil Firms -- World War II -- The Americans Return after the War -- The Development of Central Sumatra -- Benefits to Indonesia -- Activities of Other American Firms -- Prospects for the Future -- III / Wealth from Trees — The History of American Enterprise in Indonesian Rubber -- Early Imports of Rubber from Sumatra -- Earliest American ventures in Rubber -- U.S. Rubber creates the World's Largest Plantation -- U.S. Rubber Pioneers in Scientific Production of Rubber -- Rubber during World War I -- Four Other American companies join U.S. Rubber in Sumatra -- The Flag Follows Trade: A Consulate opened at Medan -- Rubber Restriction -- The Great Depression -- World War II -- Postwar Re-Establishment -- Since the Korean War -- Prospects for the Future -- IV / American Contributions to Education, Religious and Secular -- The Martyrdom of Munson and Lyman, 1834 -- Reopening of American Mission Work in Sumatra -- The Seventh-Day Adventists Start the First Permanent Work -- Methodist Educational Work before World War II -- Non-Religious Educational Work by Americans -- Pre-War Work of Other Religious Groups -- World-War II and its aftermath -- Since Independence, 1949 -- Recent Non-Religious Education -- V / Scholar — Adventurers -- Thomas Horsfield -- American Navy Exploration Expeditions -- First American Exploration of the Interior -- The Great Animal Collectors -- Astronomers in the Antipodes -- Americans in Batakland -- Interwar Researches -- Postwar American Scholar-Visitors -- American Writings on Sumatra.