Strategies In Cold
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Strategies of Containment
Author: John Lewis Gaddis
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2005-06-23
When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. This updated edition of Gaddis' classic carries the history of containment through the end of the Cold War. Beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt's postwar plans, Gaddis provides a thorough critical analysis of George F. Kennan's original strategy of containment, NSC-68, The Eisenhower-Dulles "New Look," the Kennedy-Johnson "flexible response" strategy, the Nixon-Kissinger strategy of detente, and now a comprehensive assessment of how Reagan - and Gorbechev - completed the process of containment, thereby bringing the Cold War to an end. He concludes, provocatively, that Reagan more effectively than any other Cold War president drew upon the strengths of both approaches while avoiding their weaknesses. A must-read for anyone interested in Cold War history, grand strategy, and the origins of the post-Cold War world.
Chilling Tolerance and Regulation of Horticultural Crops: Physiological, Molecular, and Genetic Perspectives
Chilling injury affects crops in the tropical and subtropical regions. Damage can include surface pitting, discolouration, internal breakdown, water soaking, failure to ripen, growth inhibition, wilting, loss of flavour, and decay. Post-harvest handling of these crops within a cold chain system that maintains the desired temperature and humidity range is essential to preserving quality and shelf life. To counter chilling injury, crops have developed complex tolerance mechanisms. These mechanisms include stress perception, signal transduction, transcriptional activation of stress-responsive target genes, and synthesis of stress-related proteins and other molecules. Concurrently, recent integration of molecular and omics-based techniques to conventional breeding has vastly improved the screening efficiency of traits associated with chilling tolerance. Thus, understanding these physiological, biochemical, and molecular responses and tolerance mechanisms is crucial to developing engineering strategies enhancing cold stress tolerance.
Orchestrating the Instruments of Power
Author: D. Robert Worley
language: en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date: 2015-07-15
National security, a topic routinely discussed behind closed doors by Washington’s political scientists and policy makers, is believed to be an insider’s game. All too often this highly specialized knowledge is assumed to place issues beyond the grasp—and interest—of the American public. Author D. Robert Worley disagrees. The U.S. national security system, designed after World War II and institutionalized through a decades-long power conflict with the Soviet Union, is inadequate for the needs of the twenty-first century, and while a general consensus has emerged that the system must be transformed, a clear and direct route for a new national security strategy proves elusive. Furnishing the tools to assist in future national security reforms, Orchestrating the Instruments of Power articulates and synthesizes the concepts of America’s economic, political, and military instruments of power.