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Seeking the bomb: strategies of nuclear proliferation Princeton studies in international history and politics./ Vipin Narang.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index."The first systematic look at the different strategies that states employ in their pursuit of nuclear weaponsMuch of the work on nuclear proliferation has focused on why states pursue nuclear weapons. The question of how states pursue nuclear weapons has received little attention. Seeking the Bomb is the first book to analyze this topic by examining which strategies of nuclear proliferation are available to aspirants, why aspirants select one strategy over another, and how this matters to international politics. Looking at a wide range of nations, from India and Japan to the Soviet Union and North Korea to Iraq and Iran, Vipin Narang develops an original typology of proliferation strategies--hedging, sprinting, sheltered pursuit, and hiding. Each strategy of proliferation provides different opportunities for the development of nuclear weapons, while at the same time presenting distinct vulnerabilities that can be exploited to prevent states from doing so. Narang delves into the crucial implications these strategies have for nuclear proliferation and international security. Hiders, for example, are especially disruptive since either they successfully attain nuclear weapons, irrevocably altering the global power structure, or they are discovered, potentially triggering serious crises or war, as external powers try to halt or reverse a previously clandestine nuclear weapons program. As the international community confronts the next generation of potential nuclear proliferators, Seeking the Bomb explores how global conflict and stability are shaped by the ruthlessly pragmatic ways states choose strategies of proliferation"--Publisher's description.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Introduction -- Strategies of nuclear Proliferation and their sources -- The varieties of hedgers : India, Japan, West Germany, Brazil and Argentina, Sweden and Switzerland -- The sprinters : Soviet Union, France, and China -- The sheltered pursuers : Israel, Pakistan, and North Korea -- The hiders : Iraq, Taiwan, and South Africa -- The consequences for nuclear proliferation and conflict : Halting hedgers and handling hiders (Libya, Syria, and Iran) -- Conclusion.1 online resource (xii, 381 pages)
Process synthesis for manufacturing microcellular thermoplastic parts : a case study in axiomatic design
No full textThesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1988.Includes bibliographical references.by Vipin Kumar.Ph.D
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The Fragile Balance of Terror
No full textIn The Fragile Balance of Terror, the foremost experts on nuclear policy and strategy offer insight into an era rife with more nuclear powers. Some of these new powers suffer domestic instability, others are led by pathological personalist dictators, and many are situated in highly unstable regions of the world—a volatile mix of variables.The increasing fragility of deterrence in the twenty-first century is created by a confluence of forces: military technologies that create vulnerable arsenals, a novel information ecosystem that rapidly transmits both information and misinformation, nuclear rivalries that include three or more nuclear powers, and dictatorial decision making that encourages rash choices. The nuclear threats posed by India, Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea are thus fraught with danger.The Fragile Balance of Terror, edited by Vipin Narang and Scott D. Sagan, brings together a diverse collection of rigorous and creative scholars who analyze how the nuclear landscape is changing for the worse. Scholars, pundits, and policymakers who think that the spread of nuclear weapons can create stable forms of nuclear deterrence in the future will be forced to think again.Contributors: Giles David Arceneaux, Mark S. Bell, Christopher Clary, Peter D. Feaver, Jeffrey Lewis, Rose McDermott, Nicholas L. Miller, Vipin Narang, Ankit Panda, Scott D. Sagan, Caitlin Talmadge, Heather Williams, Amy Zegar
The Fragile Balance of Terror
Get PDFIn The Fragile Balance of Terror, the foremost experts on nuclear policy and strategy offer insight into an era rife with more nuclear powers. Some of these new powers suffer domestic instability, others are led by pathological personalist dictators, and many are situated in highly unstable regions of the world—a volatile mix of variables. The increasing fragility of deterrence in the twenty-first century is created by a confluence of forces: military technologies that create vulnerable arsenals, a novel information ecosystem that rapidly transmits both information and misinformation, nuclear rivalries that include three or more nuclear powers, and dictatorial decision making that encourages rash choices. The nuclear threats posed by India, Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea are thus fraught with danger. The Fragile Balance of Terror, edited by Vipin Narang and Scott D. Sagan, brings together a diverse collection of rigorous and creative scholars who analyze how the nuclear landscape is changing for the worse. Scholars, pundits, and policymakers who think that the spread of nuclear weapons can create stable forms of nuclear deterrence in the future will be forced to think again. Contributors: Giles David Arceneaux, Mark S. Bell, Christopher Clary, Peter D. Feaver, Jeffrey Lewis, Rose McDermott, Nicholas L. Miller, Vipin Narang, Ankit Panda, Scott D. Sagan, Caitlin Talmadge, Heather Williams, Amy Zegar
Neoliberalism in the tourism and hospitality sector/ Vipin Nadda, Sahidi Bilan, Muhammad Azam and Dirisa Mulindwa, editors.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references."This book explores globalization from a tourism and hospitality context. It also evaluates whether globalization is a new form of colonization or a new form of economic cooperation between third world and developed countries"--Wine and glocal gastronomy in Mexico / Nava Jimenez -- Globalization and the code of ethics of tourism / António Queirós -- The end of tourism as we know it : neoliberalism, thana-capitalism and touring / Maximiliano Korstanje, Babu George -- Developing tourism sector with neoliberalism orientated strategies in countries with scarce financial resources : developing tourism sector with neoliberalism orientated strategies / Sumesh Dadwal -- Glocalisation and sustainable business solutions : business and environmental sustainability / Michael Fowowe -- Changing political environment in the West and its impact on international tourism / Muhammad Aazam -- Global innovation and local sustainability / Blessing George Adepoju -- Global tourism and the economic growth : what it means? / Blerton Hyseni -- The role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in tourism and hospitality : a case study of the Victoria Falls, Zambia / Rubina Moniz Vieira, Vipin Nadda -- Tourism's potential as an economic messiah : the case of South Africa / Unathi Sonwabile Henama.1 online resource
Deterrents to Bilateral Internal Mammary Artery Grafting and How to Address Them
No full textVipin Zamvar of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in Scotland presents a discussion on bilateral internal mammary artery (BIMA) grafting. He discusses the overall use of BIMA grafting and factors contributing to the low use of this method. He expands on the technical factors of BIMA, alternative options, and evidence from observational studies and randomized controlled trials
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
PARMETIS: Parallel Graph Partitioning and Sparse Matrix Ordering Library
No full textKarypis, George; Schloegel, Kirk; Kumar, Vipin. (1997). PARMETIS: Parallel Graph Partitioning and Sparse Matrix Ordering Library. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/215345
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