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This collection of essays surveys and analyzes the most important aspects of China's naval modernization. The book's 10 chapters represent papers delivered at a 2007 conference, but have been updated and, most importantly, framed by expertly written introductory and concluding chapters that bring the book firmly into the century's second decade.

Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of this wide-ranging, authoritative and user-friendly dictionary incorporates the major events, personalities and processes that have shaped the history of South Africa.

Was the Iranian hostage crisis the most humiliating episode in American history or was the eventual release of the hostages unharmed a triumph of patient, skilled diplomacy? In this book, the story of the negotiations is told by key Americans, inside & outside the government, who were intimately involved in the day-to-day search for an honorable settlement that would free the hostages. Drawing on their personal notes, journals, & files, the negotiators offer a rare insider's view of how the agonizing political, economic, military, & human choices were made.

Pt. 1. Historical legacy -- pt. 2. Governance and military security -- pt. 3. Economic integration -- pt. 4. Human security -- pt. 5. External actors.

This report is one of a series of technical reports issued by the United Nations on integration and improvement of social, demographic, and related statistics and indicators. It notes that establishing detailed links between national accounts and balances and social statistics has proven to be unusually complex at the conceptual level. The applicability and usefulness in the social fields of internationally recommended concepts and classifications from economic statistics are explored, and the application of such concepts and classifications is discussed. Chapters I through IV deal with general questions of integrating economic and social statistics that are common to many fields of social concern. These include: (1) the general justification for integration; (2) the central importance of multipurpose classifications; (3) problems and possibilities for linkage between micro- and macro-data; and (4) technical issues involved in the use of statistics in social fields related to economic measurement. Chapters V through VII analyze practical problems of integration using actual available data as illustrations in the fields of health services, educational services, and housing and human settlements. Proposals for further work are summarized in Chapter VIII. (Contains five tables.) (SLD)