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participated actively and extensively in operations. "China has mobilized more than 130,000 army and paramilitary troops to the disaster area" (IFRC Operations update n° 5 22 May 2008). The strength and leadership of the local government therefore had a deep impact on relief operations in China. Another element affected the operations in the Sichuan province: heavy rain increased the possibility of floods and landslides in earthquake-damaged areas. It threatened 700,000 people with the possible rupture

explicitly identifies this technique as its own kind of diagram. FIGURE 1.13 The composite structure diagram models a class’s internal structure. MInd Person Body Introducing the UML 23 Philosophy on the Line As you’ll see when we get deeper into object-orientation, a line that joins two classes (like Mind and Body) usually has a name. In Figure 1.13 how should we label the line that joins Mind and Body? Philosophers have been puzzling over that one for ages! They’ve been arguing over

countries undertook reforms within a decade that had occupied their West European transition counterparts for almost half a century. Newbery [2004], Stern [1994] and Stern and Davis [1998] have provided evidence on the economic regulatory and political challenges of restructuring the electricity sector ; many of their observations are still valid. More recent evidence by EBRD [2004] confirms that the electricity sector is still one of the unresolved legacies of transition in many countries. Together with

the evolution of distinct capabilities of smaller born globals and their assets and by explaining the role of owners/managers (top management) in building these capabilities in international new ventures (INVs). The resource-based view (RBV) reveals deeper theoretical understanding of the precise value and combination of unique and idiosyncratic assets and capabilities of born globals. In addition, the managerial level of analysis needs to be addressed, especially in areas in which it is most likely

InternationalSecurity, Vol. 21, No. 3 (Winter 1996/97), pp. 54-86 ? 1996 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 54 Why Do States Build Nuclear Weapons?| 55 The central purpose of this article is to challenge this conventional wisdom about nuclear proliferation. I argue that the consensus view, focusing on national security considerations as the cause of proliferation, is dangerously inadequate because nuclear weapons programs also serve other, more parochial

management that affect water runoff and infiltration onto aquifers. The author mentions several potentially effective modes of international 17 management for the Jordan River Basin and the aquifers underneath the West Bank. He sees as the main challenge for policy makers to establish management structures that are able to cope with the more complex issues of governing the transboundary effects of the entire hydraulic cycle rather than the current ‘simple’ allocation of water, noting that the IsraeliArab

rightists.25 All these groups 22. Carl Schmitt, Political Theology, op cit., p. 5 (translation altered). 23. Julien Freund, L’essence du politique, op. cit., p. 125. 24. Cf. Paul Hirst, “Carl Schmitt’s Decisionism,” in Chantal Mouffe, ed., The Challenge of Carl Schmitt (London: Verso, 1999), pp. 7-17. 25. For example, Joseph de Maistre, who was influenced by Bodin, wrote that: “any sort of sovereignty is absolute by nature,” i.e., in a way, it always is despotic, since nothing can be superior to

emigrate, he said, precisely to find more favorable conditions for the life of the nuclear family, or to flee from war or persecution. Even in other less dramatic situations, the cardinal affirmed, the family often suffers. And this represents a challenge for the Church. Cardinal Martino called for creativity and zeal in adapting pastoral plans to distinct situations, without losing the common goal, that of "carrying out the plan of God, who has wanted man and woman to form one flesh in the bond

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total length of the Ganges is 2,510 km. Agriculture plays an important role. In recent years the frequency of abnormal floods in Bangladesh and India has increased substantially, causing serious damage to lives and property. One of the greatest challenges will be the rising sea levels. An increase of half a meter could result in six million people losing their homes. Even so an UN Climate Report issued in 2007 indicates that the Himalayan glaciers that feed the Ganges may disappear by 2030, after