Suchergebnisse

Texto en español; resúmenes en inglés y español ; Bibliografía: p. 209-236. Índice ; Sumario: La obra estudia la presencia de ingenieros de origen extranjero en colaboración con el Ejército español durante los siglos XVI al XVIII. Primero fueron contingentes de italianos y flamencos que colaboraron en las tareas de defensa y toma de plazas en los conflictos europeos y en la protección de las tierras americanas. Después con la Guerra de Sucesión española fueron ingenieros franceses, los que además pusieron las bases para la formación del Cuerpo de Ingenieros en el Ejército español en 1711.

Abstract. In 1967 and 1968, the United States Department of Defense instituted a program of "Nondiscriminatory Housing for Military Personnel." Data gathered in this program offer a unique opportunity to examine interactions between the armed forces and society in the housing market. The key factor explaining variations in the relative success of this program in different areas of the country appears to have been the importance of the military to the local economy.

Highlights Convention Issue - 'Mansfield Wants Cutback in Foreign Military Aid'

This book compares the foreign military sales policies of the four European non-aligned countries--Austria, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland--using public opinion as an explanatory factor. These non-aligned states have accepted a policy of 'armed neutrality'.

Foreign military intervention is one of the most common types of interstate military force used over recent decades. As war's costliness increases and the efficacy of economic sanctions and other foreign policy tools is increasingly questioned, it may become even more prevalent. Unfortunately, the field of international relations has little systematic understanding of the types of impacts such military ventures can have on target states in the developing world. In PCSE AR1 regressions of 106 developing countries from 1960 to 2002, we find that large scale foreign military interventions, which have over 1000 intervening troops, do not leave a significant imprint on governing institutions, economic growth rates, or physical quality of life in developing democracies. The same cannot be said for non-democratic states in the developing world. Hostile interventions can help to democratize non-democratic targets, while rival interventions lay the groundwork for long-term economic growth.