AFTER THE LUNAR LANDING Our concern in this volume is the impact upon science, technology and INTERNATIONAL cooperation of man's emer gence from the "cradle," the biosphere of Earth, to visit the surface of another planet. The editors invited experts in the physical and social sciences who had been think ing, talking and writing about space programs for a long time. Some had been critical of manned space flight, its motives and its costs. Some have been or are currently involved in Project Apollo. Some had not committed themselves to value judgments but were fascinated by probable results. In general, the authors regard the moon landing as a climactic event in man's evolution. Sir Bernard Lovell is likely to have a cataclysmic effect on society suggests it and that an INTERNATIONAL effort should be mounted to send men to Mars in the 1980s. The question of how Project Apollo relates to a scheme of priorities which takes into account such needs as housing, health, pollution and the problems of urbaniza tion enters the discussion from several points of view. Eugene Rabinowitch suggests that Apollo may stimulate the development of a system of establishing national priorities in the application of the nation's resources. Freeman Dyson, on the other hand, does not believe that ix PREFACE x any "hierarchy of committees" can devise an accepted order of priorities.
Focuses on population policies and its impact on the quality of life. 1994 INTERNATIONAL Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) delegates' negotiations on the content of the Population Program of Action; Social context for reproduction and sexual relations; Vision of population policy; Responsibility of ICPD delegates.
The article focuses on the author's views on the issue on reforming world financial regulation in 2009. The author asserts that political leaders worldwide will come up with proposals after discussing about the reasons behind the financial crisis and agreeing a solution. However, she mentions that regulators in INTERNATIONAL financial diplomacy anticipate a danger that Berlin, Germany will be distracted during negotiations by its elections and will not bring forth in time with the strategy. INSETS: Pity the Social Democrats;The Asmussen Complex.
The article discusses a proposal from the European Commission (EC) to introduce a financial transaction tax (FTT) in Europe starting January 1, 2014. The proposal was rejected by member states of the European Union during an informal gathering of the EU member states' finance ministers (ECOFIN) in Copenhagen, Denmark. The British and Swedish government have rejected the proposal from the outset. Some politicians see an FTT as a way to raise revenue.
The author explains why Luxembourg and Austria are to blame for the European Union's (EU) failure to unite about tax information exchange. According to EU Tax Commissioner Algirdas Semeta, the two countries are hampering the improvement of tax compliance and information exchange across the region. The author explains that while the EU Tax Commission wants to reform the EU Savings Directive to address tax evasion, Austria and Luxembourg are opposing such move.
The author reflects on the ways to be taken to avoid the hazardous impact of asteroid deflection. He states that the first step to prevent the impact would be to attach a transponder to the near-Earth object (NEO) to predict its future orbit precisely. He adds that any efforts at NEO deflection must be INTERNATIONAL in scope because of tracking uncertainties.
The article discusses the "New World Order" of the twenty-first century. According to the author, our world is characterized by rapid technology, extensive environmental threats and considerable inequalities of income and power which makes equalizing economic growth and also global instability and conflict possible. The concepts of divergence in economic growth and economic convergence are explored. The world's economy, resource use and demographic change are discussed.
The collapse of the Soviet Union raised concerns about the fate of its nuclear weapons and led the United States to fund what came to be known as cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR). This includes programs that fight the proliferation of weapons expertise by providing short-term income and eventual re-employment of former Soviet WMD experts in civilian fields. Using case studies, based on archival research and extensive interviews, this article argues that CTR's three main 'knowledge non-proliferation' efforts have largely failed at their given task. Although programs have worked with many former Soviet WMD experts, few have been re-employed. Each program has also come to emphasize the number of people engaged rather than re-directed and to have less regard for their WMD skills. Moreover, this shift in goals, and the metrics each program uses to measure progress, led to serious political disputes between Moscow and Washington. Besides being unable to demonstrate success at their original non-proliferation goals, these programs use metrics that threaten to upset the fragile US domestic political consensus for future work in Russia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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