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Free Download Jordan Tama, "Bipartisanship and US Foreign Policy: Cooperation in a Polarized Age"
English | ISBN: 0197745660 | 2023 | 332 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 15 MB
In an era of ever-increasing polarization in the US Congress, American foreign policy remains marked by frequent bipartisanship. In Bipartisanship and US Foreign Policy, Jordan Tama shows that, even as polarization in American politics reaches new heights, Democrats and Republicans in Washington continue to cooperate on important international issues. Looking closely at congressional voting patterns and recent debates over military action, economic sanctions, international trade, and foreign policy spending, Tama reveals that bipartisanship remains surprisingly common when US elected officials turn their attention overseas. Yet bipartisanship today rarely involves complete unity. Instead, bipartisan coalitions spanning members of both parties often coexist with intra-party divisions or disagreement between Congress and the president, making it difficult for the United States to speak with one voice on the global stage. Drawing on new data and interviews of more than 100 foreign policy practitioners, this book documents the persistence of bipartisanship on international issues and highlights key factors that facilitate or impede cooperation on foreign policy challenges.

Free Download Materiality of Cooperation
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3658394676 | 495 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 15 MB
The volume investigates the socio-material dimension and media practices of cooperation – before, during and beyond situations. Cooperation is understood as reciprocal interplay operating with or without consensus, in co-presence or absence of the involved actors in distributed situations. Artefacts, bodies, texts and infrastructures are the media that make cooperation possible. They enable and configure reciprocal accomplishments – and are themselves created through media practices in cooperative situations.

Free Download Additive Manufacturing in Multidisciplinary Cooperation and Production
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031376706 | 436 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 65 MB
This book publishes the latest findings and ideas in the field of additive manufacturing presented by authors from prominent institutions around the world at the iCAT 2023 conference. The authors address various technological and medical aspects, ranging from materials science to the specific behaviour of the technology under different working conditions. The book is divided into four sections, three of which are dedicated to the purely technological aspects of additive manufacturing, covering metal processes, polymer processes and simulation. The fourth part of the book is dedicated to the medical applications of additive manufacturing, covering areas ranging from orthopaedic surgeries to materials used in medical AM.Overall, the book provides insight into the current state of the science and applications of additive manufacturing.

Free Download Humanitarian Logistics: Cross-Sector Cooperation in Disaster Relief Management by Alessandra Cozzolino
English | PDF | 2012 | 53 Pages | ISBN : 3642301851 | 1 MB
​​​​​​​​​​​​Humanitarian logistics has received increasing interest both from logistics academics and practitioners as a result of the dramatic increase in both natural and man-made disasters. The impact on affected populations can be all the more limited as much as the logistics operations in response to emergencies are effective and efficient. Collaboration with various relevant actors involving in the emergency resolution can help to reduce costs, increase speed, and improve the leanness/agility level in the humanitarian supply chain, and viceversa, poor coordination among them is cited as an explanation for performance gaps. As disasters become increasingly complex better collaboration not only with government agencies, military units, humanitarian organizations, but also through partnerships with private business becomes more and more important. However, such partnerships are not easy as organizations in the two sectors are extremely different. The main aim of this study is exploring more in depth the partnership between profit and non-profit in emergency relief operations, with a specific attention to the cross-learning potential for both the logistics service provider (profit) and the humanitarian organization (non-profit).

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Published 8/2023
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Free Download Leverage and Cooperation in the US World Order: The Shrewd Sheriff
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009355066 | 277 Pages | PDF | 4 MB
Since the end of World War II, the United States has maintained a unique system of partnerships and alliances, known as the US world order. Within this order, it has sought both compliance from, and consensus with, its partners. Sometimes it has achieved both, sometimes one but not the other, and sometimes neither. What accounts for this variation in hegemonic leadership? Giacomo Chiozza suggests that the answer depends on the domestic political institutions that structure US relations with the incumbent leaders in the partner nations. Domestic political institutions that foster political successors and allow for regular and flexible channels of leadership turnover make it easier for the US to sustain friendly relations. However, unexpectedly, institutions that allow for regular and flexible channels of leadership turnover also create domestic political incentives that foster the attainment of better governance and more respect of human rights.

Free Download Shoji Nishijima, Peter H. Smith, "Cooperation Or Rivalry?: Regional Integration In The Americas And The Pacific Rim"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367159449, 0813321115, 0367009579 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 1.2 mb
Authorities and experts in Japan and other Asian countries have expressed considerable fear that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) will create a "Fortress America" that will deliberately exclude nations of the Pacific Rim. Others argue that economic integration will provide substantial opportunity for Asia/Pacific countries and thus contribute to the dynamism of the "Pacific Century" ahead. This book explores the varying interpretations and looks at their implications for countries of the Pacific Rim. Might NAFTA provoke the formation of an economic bloc in the Asia/Pacific area? Or will economic liberalization occur on a global and multilateral scale? What are the political dimensions of these possible options and processes?Examining the interconnections such policy alternatives may have for both the Pacific Rim and Latin America, the contributors evaluate the commercial, financial, cultural, and political linkages between the regions to assess the magnitude of interests that might be affected by NAFTA or FTAA. Assessing the range of policy options available to countries involved, they seek to make an original contribution to the debate about the formation and structure of the post-Cold War world order.

Free Download Andrew Mack, John Ravenhill, Vinod Aggarwal, "Pacific Cooperation: Building Economic And Security Regimes In The Asiapacific Region"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367282097, 0367297558 | EPUB | pages: 304 | 0.7 mb
Long divided by cultural, economic, and political differences, the Asia-Pacific region has little history of multilateral cooperation. Alliances that once linked individual countries with one or the other superpower fostered deep mistrust among neighbouring states.

Free Download Joseph Drew, "Reforming Local Government: Consolidation, Cooperation, or Re-creation?"
English | 2020 | pages: 168 | ISBN: 9811565058, 9811565023 | PDF | 2,5 mb
This book is a bold prescription for local government reform that moves well beyond the old arguments regarding consolidations (also referred to as amalgamations) and co-operation (sometimes referred to as shared services) to paint a picture of an efficient, effective tier of government that strikes a balance between the right of persons to pursue their existential ends and the need to promote the common good.

Free Download Charles K. Ebinger, "Energy and Security in South Asia: Cooperation or Conflict?"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0815704119, 9382993010 | EPUB | pages: 247 | 1.2 mb
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