Doing Business with Saudi Arabia or Theory and Practice of Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment

Doing Business with Saudi Arabia

Author: Anthony Shoult

This third edition of Doing Business with Saudi Arabia is the definitive English language guide to business practice and commercial opportunity in the Kingdom, the largest economy in the Middle East. This authoritative guide provides an up-to-date appraisal of the current economic and investment climate, a review of market potential in the key sectors, and unique 'best practice' advice on all aspects of commercial engagement with Saudi Arabia. Also included are detailed regional and sectoral profiles.

Table of Contents:

The economic background

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Theory and Practice of Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment

Author: Kees Bastmeijer

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a well-established instrument of environmental law and policy that aims to ensure that potential adverse environmental effects of human activities are assessed before decisions on such activities are made. The instrument is increasingly being applied in respect of activities that may cause environmental effects across the borders of a state. This book offers an assessment of thirteen systems of Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment (TEIA) that exist or are in development in different parts of the world. Although TEIA is generally associated with EIA between territorial states, this book takes a broader approach and is divided into three sub-parts: Transboundary EIA between states, EIA for activities in international and shared areas, and EIA required by international financial institutions. Knowledgeable experts (scholars and practitioners) provide an overview of the history, content, and practice of the individual systems and, based on these discussions, the state of the art concerning TEIA and possible future developments are discussed.

Paradigms and Sand Castles or High Tech Crimes Revealed

Paradigms and Sand Castles: Theory Building and Research Design in Comparative Politics

Author: Barbara Geddes

Paradigms and Sand Castles demonstrates the relationship between thoughtful research design and the collection of persuasive evidence in support of theory. It teaches the craft of research through interesting and carefully selected examples from the field of comparative development studies.
Barbara Geddes is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
1	Research Design and the Accumulation of Knowledge	1
2	Big Questions, Little Answers: How the Questions You Choose Affect the Answers You Get	27
3	How the Cases You Choose Affect the Answers You Get: Selection Bias and Related Issues	89
4	How the Evidence You Use Affects the Answers You Get: Rigorous Use of the Evidence Contained in Case Studies	131
5	How the Approach You Choose Affects the Answers You Get: Rational Choice and Its Uses in Comparative Politics	175
6	Conclusion	213
	App. A	225
	App. B	233
	App. C	247
	Bibliography	289
	Index	307

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High-Tech Crimes Revealed: Cyberwar Stories from the Digital Front

Author: Steven Branigan

Stories about hacking, stolen credit card numbers, computer viruses, and identity theft are all around us, but what do they really mean to us? The goal of this book, quite simply, is to help educate people on the issues with high-tech crimes.

High-Tech Crimes Revealed: Cyberwar Stories from the Digital Front demystifies the risks and realities of high-tech crimes. Demystifying these crimes and raising the awareness of users of technology will make people smarter and safer, and that will make all of us safer in the long run.

Steven Branigan shares the inside details of real cases he worked on in his various roles in law-enforcement, information technology, and security. The result is a comprehensive, accessible look at how digital crimes are discovered, what techniques the criminals use and why, and (in some cases) how they can be brought to justice.

Inside, you'll find extensive information on

• Actual hacker investigations, including the harm caused and how the criminals were tracked and caught
• The ins and outs of identity theft, a rapidly growing crime with potential for serious damage
• Using the criminology and psychology of hackers to detect and deter attacks
• The risks associated with various technologies
• Do's and don'ts for high-tech criminal investigations

This easily understandable book will take you beyond hearing about high-tech crimes to actually understanding how and why they happen—and what can be done to protect yourself.

"Most books on this topic impart knowledge in the form of techniques and methods. This book differs in that it impartsSteven Branigan's experience in the field, and real case studies in which problems are framed and effective solutions are crafted. In this respect this book imparts not only knowledge, but Steve's experience and wisdom as well."

—Mike Tarrani, Independent Consultant

"Steven Branigan provides a gripping account of what's involved in investigating computer crime. I strongly recommend this book to any security practitioner or anyone with an interest in computer security."

—Michael Nickle, Lead Consultant, VeriSign

"Being on the inside of several high-tech busts has given Steven Branigan the ability to make this book intriguing enough to keep high-tech types interested, while also doing a superb job of demystifying these real-life cases in a way that anyone can read and enjoy."

—David Kensiski, Director of Operations, InfiniRoute Networks

"The modern high-tech industry brought new things to our lives. Buying a book, selling a car, or robbing a bank has never been so easy. Why is that? You've got to read this book to find out!"

—Denis Scherbakov, Systems Administrator, MCSA: Security, MCSA, MCP, Security+Atlant Telecom, ISP

"Steven Branigan has been deeply involved with many real incidents of high-tech crimes—some of them I know of are too sensitive to disclose by name. Yet, High-Tech Crimes Revealed gives outsiders an opportunity to find out what actually takes place in this often-misunderstood field. By combining his powerful knowledge of computers and technology with the legal and behavioral considerations that are overlooked by those less experienced, Branigan demonstrates just how much private industry and government need to cooperate in order to find the facts and identify criminals. While his topic is deadly-serious, he conveys his riveting stories with humor and distills observations into clearly understood rules that we all should know as we go about our lives."

—Ed Stroz, Former Supervisory Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Computer Crime Squad in New York and President of Stroz Friedberg LLC

"Steven brings us behind the scenes of some very exciting hacker investigations and interviews, and tells the stories like few others. This book is an exciting read because he describes the people and their actions, showing us how these new-age crimes can affect all of us."

—Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson

"Finally, real-life credible stories that deliver first-hand accounts of tactical and strategic high-tech operations. This book is a rare look into what goes on behind the scenes. Take a front row seat with the author as he brings you into a world few have seen."

—Bob Weaver, Retired Deputy Special Agent in Charge, Criminal Investigative Division, U.S. Secret Service, Washington, D.C.

"Steve's intellect and real-world experience in criminal investigations, forensic analysis, and security principles is evident on every page. Sprinkle in some sound advice and a bit of humor and you have a book that is interesting, informative, and most of all, useful. I highly recommend it."

—Fred Staples, Retired Director of Computer and Network Security Consulting for Telcordia Technologies

"This book details story after story of computer crimes and identity theft. The best way to prevent yourself from being a victim is to take these narratives to heart."

—Ben Rothke, Senior Security Consultant, ThruPoint Inc.

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Evolution of the Judicial Opinion or Congressional Elections

Evolution of the Judicial Opinion: Institutional and Individual Styles

Author: William Popkin

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"There is no better book for conveying the hidden literary value in the judicial opinion of our time."
—Robert A. Ferguson, author of The Trial in American Life

In this sweeping study of the judicial opinion, William D. Popkin examines how judges' opinions have been presented from the early American Republic to the present. Throughout history, he maintains, judges have presented their opinions within political contexts that involve projecting judicial authority to the external public, yet within a professional legal culture that requires opinions to develop judicial law through particular institutional and individual judicial styles.

Tracing the history of judicial opinion from its roots in English common law, Popkin documents a general shift from unofficially reported oral opinions, to semi-official reports, to the U.S. Supreme Court's adoption in the early nineteenth century of generally unanimous opinions. While this institutional base was firmly established by the twentieth century, Popkin suggests that the modern U.S. judicial opinion has reverted — in some respects — to one in which each judge expresses an individual point of view. Ultimately, he concludes that a shift from an authoritative to a more personal and exploratory individual style of writing opinions is consistent with a more democratic judicial institution.

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Congressional Elections: Campaigning at Home and in Washington

Author: Paul S Herrnson

About the Author:
Paul S. Herrnson is the director of the Center for American Politics and Citizenship and professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland

Table of Contents:

Tables and Figures     x
Preface     xiv
Introduction     1
The Strategic Context     6
The Candidate-Centered Campaign     6
The Institutional Framework     8
Political Culture     17
Campaign Technology     19
The Political Setting     21
Recent Congressional Elections     26
Summary     34
Candidates and Nominations     36
Strategic Ambition     36
Passing the Primary Test     51
Nominations, Elections, and Representation     57
The Senate     66
Summary     69
The Anatomy of a Campaign     71
Campaign Organizations     72
Campaign Budgets     83
Senate Campaigns     85
Summary     86
The Parties Campaign     87
National Agenda Setting     88
The National, Congressional, and Senatorial Campaign Committees     90
Strategy, Decision Making, and Targeting     96
Campaign Contributions and Coordinated Expenditures     99
Campaign Services     105
Independent, Parallel, and Coordinated Campaigns     116
The Impact of Party Campaigning     124
Summary     131
The Interests Campaign     132
The Rise of PACs and Other Electorally Active Organizations     133
Strategy, Decision Making, and Targeting     141
PAC Contributions     150
Campaign Services     154
Independent, Parallel, and Coordinated Campaigns     157
The Impact of Interest Group Activity     161
Summary     165
The Campaign for Resources     166
Inequalities in Resources     167
House Incumbents     169
House Challengers     180
Candidates for Open House Seats     187
Senate Campaigns     191
Summary     195
Campaign Strategy     196
Voting Behavior     196
Voters and Campaign Strategy     200
Gauging Public Opinion     202
Voter Targeting     205
The Message     209
Summary     219
Campaign Communications     221
Television Advertising     222
Radio Advertising     227
Newspaper Advertising     228
Direct Mail and Newsletters      229
Mass Telephone Calls     231
The Internet     232
Free Media     235
Field Work     240
The Importance of Different Communication Techniques     241
Independent, Parallel, and Coordinated Campaign Communications     243
Summary     244
Candidates, Campaigns, and Electoral Success     245
House Incumbent Campaigns     246
House Challenger Campaigns     252
House Open-Seat Campaigns     258
Senate Campaign     262
Claiming Credit and Placing Blame     265
Summary     271
Elections and Governance     272
The Permanent Campaign     272
A Decentralized Congress     275
Political Parties as Centralizing Agents     280
Responsiveness, Responsibility, and Public Policy     282
Summary     289
Campaign Reform     290
The Case for Reform     290
Obstacles to Reform     292
The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002     294
The BCRA's Impact     298
Beyond the BCRA     303
Conclusion     312
Notes     315
Index      345
Notes Name Index     363

England and the Spanish Armada or Dynamics of Contention

England and the Spanish Armada: The Necessary Quarrel

Author: James McDermott

The Anglo-Spanish War of 1585–1603 was, to most contemporary Englishmen, a conflict for the soul of the nation. To their descendants, the Armada campaign of 1588 represented a watershed in European history that both preserved English freedoms and halted the momentum of an ambitious and alien empire. Yet the victorious nation had contributed much to the conflict. This book examines the process by which the Spaniard, a long-term ally and friend, became in English eyes the epitome of human depravity, and how resistance to his imagined goals helped shape an emerging sense of nationhood.
The antipathies generated by this process ensured that the Armada campaign was a battle for different ideals of civilization. The protagonists expected the clash to be decisive, but what ensued was no heroic encounter. Instead it was an inconclusive affair, redeemed—for England—by atrocious weather and poor Spanish understanding of the coastlines of western Scotland and Ireland.

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Dynamics of Contention

Author: Doug McAdam

Dissatisfied with the compartmentalization of studies concerning strikes, wars, revolutions, social movements, and other forms of political struggle, McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly identify causal mechanisms and processes that recur across a wide range of contentious politics. Critical of the static, single-actor models (including their own) that have prevailed in the field, they shift the focus of analysis to dynamic interaction. Doubtful that large, complex series of events such as revolutions and social movements conform to general laws, they break events into smaller episodes, then identify recurrent mechanisms and proceses within them. Dynamics of Contention examines and compares eighteen contentious episodes drawn from many different parts of the world since the French Revolution, probing them for consequential and widely applicable mechanisms, for example, brokerage, category formation, and elite defection. The episodes range from nineteenth-century nationalist movements to contemporary Muslim-Hindu conflict to the Tiananmen crisis of 1989 to disintegration of the Soviet Union. The authors spell out the implications of their approach for explanation of revolutions, nationalism, and democratization, then lay out a more general program for study of contentious episodes wherever and whenever they occur.

The American Dream and the Power of Wealth or Womens Rights Emerges within the Anti Slavery Movement 1830 1870

The American Dream and the Power of Wealth

Author: Heather Beth Johnson

The American Dream and the Power of Wealth investigates the way that wealth (rather than income) structures educational opportunity in the United States. Furthermore, it shows the way that educational opportunity-the bedrock upon which our pervasive ideology of meritocracy or, in Johnson's terms, "the American Dream" is founded-structures the racial class system in the United States. She accomplishes this by analyzing an impressive store of qualitative and quantitative research on three cities: Boston, Los Angeles, and St. Louis.
The meritocratic ideology is riddled with contradictions due to the massive and growing wealth disparity between blacks and whites, in particular. Everyone wants the best for their children, but access to assets is what allows wealthy people to either send their children to private school or buy expensive homes in neighborhoods with good public schools. In this equation, income doesn't matter so much, but wealth-which is typically inherited-does. Not surprisingly, blackAmericans, who on average have far less wealth than white Americans, are often unable to attend the best schools. And since educational attainment is the root of our alleged meritocracy, whites disproportionately dominate it-and families with wealth, even when they recognize the meritocracy as a problem, don't opt out of the system that has successfully reproduced itself for decades. Essentially, the meritocratic ideology of the American Dream continues to cast a powerful spell, and people who stand to benefit will participate in it regardless of the social issues involved.

Table of Contents:

1	The wealth gap and the American dream	1
2	Meritocracy and "good" schools	19
3	Buying in and opting out	53
4	Making do and feeling stuck	79
5	Wealth privilege	101
6	Inequality and ideology	129
7	An unresolved conflict	157
App	Methodology	175

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Women's Rights Emerges within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870: A Short History with Documents, Vol. 1

Author: Kathryn Kish Sklar

Combining documents with an interpretive essay, this book is the first to offer a much-needed guide to the emergence of the women's rights movement within the anti-slavery activism of the 1830s. A 60-page introductory essay traces the cause of women's rights from Angelina and Sarah Grimké's campaign against slavery through the development of a full-fledged women's rights movement in the 1840s and 1850s and the emergence of race as a divisive issue that finally split that movement in 1869. A rich collection of over 50 documents includes diary entries, letters, and speeches from the Grimkés, Maria Stewart, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Theodore Weld, Frances Harper, Sojourner Truth, and others, giving students immediate access to the world of abolitionists and women's right advocates and their passionate struggles for emancipation. Headnotes to the documents, 14 illustrations, a bibliography, questions to consider, a chronology, and an index are also included.