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Regulation has been stimulated by industrialisation and particularly by the advent of the consumer economy. This book draws on international scholarship in sociology, political science, law and economics on the working and regulation, both in public and private, in many areas of business to map the reality of regulation, and to identify why it sometimes fails and how it can succeed.

NGOs have played an important role worldwide in the fight to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS through achieving behaviour change. NGOs have often been at the forefront of innovative changes, influencing government and international programming activities. This paper identifies and analyses the evolution of the HIV/AIDS programmes of one NGO in Thailand over a period of ten years. Three generations of programming are identified both through distinct approaches to this area of work and through the changing jargon used to describe the people the programmes are aimed at. (DSE/DÜI)

DETERRENCE IN THE COLD WAR WAS REGARDED AS A WELL-UNDERSTOOD SYSTEM THAT PROVIDED THE BEST BALANCE OF STRATEGIC VIRTUES IN A DIFFICULT SITUATION. THIS PAPER ATTEMPTS TO LOOK AT THE FORCES AND RATIONALES THAT HAVE UNDERPINNED DETERRENCE THINKING IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE DURING THE COLD WAR AND THE WAY SUCH THINKING HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY THE NEW SITUATION, AND TO INDICATE THAT THERE IS A CREDIBLE NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT LOGIC THAT CAN BE FOLLOWED EITHER IN WHOLE OR IN PART TO THE ADVANCE OF BOTH COUNTRIES AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE. TAKEN TOGETHER, IT SUGGESTS THAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE ARE ONLY A SMALL PART OF THE GLOBAL PICTURE AND HAVE A LIMITED CAPACITY TO AFFECT NUCLEAR POLITICS FOR EITHER GOOD OR ILL; BUT THE CHOICES THEY PRESENTLY FACE ARE IN SOME WAYS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THOSE OF RUSSIA OR THE UNITED STATES, SINCE THEIR SITUATIONS BEAR MORE CLOSELY ON OTHER NUCLEAR OR NEAR-NUCLEAR STATES IN THE WORLD. IT CONCLUDES THAT A DECISION TO ABANDON NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL NOT ALONE SERVE TO REVERSE NUCELAR PROLIFERATION IN THE REST OF THE WORLD BUT THAT IT IS A NECESSARY BUT NOT SUFFICIENT CONDITION.

Much current interest in spatial interaction modeling centres around solving the Harris–Wilson equilibrium model. In this paper the role of different attractiveness functions is explored and some counterintuitive results presented and explained.

In a recent paper an analysis of the stability of equilibrium solutions of production-constrained retailing models was undertaken by Harris and Wilson. It was argued that by examining equilibrium solutions in response to changes in a parameter, κ, jumps in the value of state variables, analogous to the fold catastrophe, could be expected. In this note it is shown that this is not necessarily always the case, and two different conditions are identified, one that gives rise to jump behaviours, and another that does not. The distinction arises from the nature of the κ parameter.