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John Gray is now established as one of the UK's leading political thinkers. For over a decade he has been asssociated with the ideas and think-tanks of the New Right. In this book he presents both a criticism of the ideological excesses of New Right ideology and a radical critique of the New Right itself, developed from the standpoint of traditional conservatism. All the major thinkers and themes of the New Right are examined, together with many major issues of current public policy - such as the growth of the underclass, the future of the welfare state and the role of government in education a.

Comprising a decade's worth of essays written since the publication of the author's pathbreaking book, The Political Economy of the Environment (2002), this volume discusses a number of diverse environmental issues through an economist's lens. Topics covered include environmental justice, disaster response, globalization and the environment, industrial toxins and other pollutants, cap-and-dividend climate policies, and agricultural biodiversity.

Finding Common Ground -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Brief Overview -- U.S. POLICY -- THE COCOM REGIME -- PROLIFERATION REGIMES -- THE U.S. CONTROL REGIME -- 1 Introduction -- MANDATE AND BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY -- SCOPE OF THE PANEL'S WORK -- FOCUS OF THE STUDY IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING ENVIRONMENT -- ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT -- NOTES -- 2 The Need for Export Controls in a Changed Global Environment -- MILITARY AND POLITICAL CHANGES IN THE SOVIET UNION AND EASTERN EUROPE -- GROWING ECONOMIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES FOR THE UNITED STATES -- NEW THREATS TO INTERNATIONAL SECURITY -- REDEFINITION OF U.S. POLICY -- NOTE -- 3 The Impact of Export Controls on U.S. Industry -- AREAS OF CONCERN TO U.S. INDUSTRY -- Unilateralism -- Lack of Selectivity in Developing and Managing Control Lists -- Lack of Fairness and Efficiency in the U.S. Export Control Process -- THE EFFECT OF EXPORT CONTROLS ON SPECIFIC U.S. INDUSTRIAL SECTORS -- Advanced Materials -- Commercial Aircraft and Jet Engines -- Computers -- SUMMARY -- NOTES -- 4 Evidence on the Acquisition of Sensitive Western Technology -- SOVIET AND WTO TECHNOLOGY ACQUISITION EFFORTS PRIOR TO 1990 -- ESPIONAGE -- Illegal Sales -- Diversion -- Legal Sales -- CHANGES IN THE NATURE AND PATTERNS OF SOVIET AND WTO TECHNOLOGY ACQUISITION SINCE THE BEGINNING OF 1990 -- SOVIET UTILIZATION OF ACQUIRED WESTERN TECHNOLOGY -- ACQUISITION OF TECHNOLOGIES OF PROLIFERATION CONCERN -- THE ROLE OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY IN THE EXPORT CONTROL POLICY PROCESS -- THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE INTELLIGENCE EVIDENCE -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- NOTES -- 5 The Changing Calculus of U.S. National Security Interests -- GROWING ECONOMIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES -- CHANGES IN THE TRADITIONAL SOURCES OF PHYSICAL THREAT -- Changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe -- Soviet Defense Doctrine and Military Force Deployment.

This book examines issues of landscape change and the eco-cultural nature of the environment. It looks at how widespread landscape abandonment, rural depopulation, and urbanisation effects the environment and appropriate protection and conservation measures.