"China is becoming increasingly active in the Middle East, just as some regional states perceive a declining U.S. commitment to the region. This study examines China's interests in the region and assesses China's economic, political, and security activities in the Middle East to determine whether China has a strategy toward the region and what such a strategy means for the United States. The study focuses on China's relations with two of its key partners in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia and Iran. The study concludes that China has adopted a "wary dragon" strategy toward the Middle East, whereby China is reluctant to commit substantial diplomatic or military resources to protect its growing energy and other economic interests. China does not pose a threat to U.S. interests in the region, and the United States is likely to remain the dominant security actor in the Middle East for the foreseeable future. The study recommends that the United States adopt a two-pronged strategy where China and the Middle East are concerned. First, the United States should encourage China, along with other Asian powers, to become more involved in efforts to improve Middle East stability. Second, the United States should work to reassure Middle East partners of an enduring U.S. security commitment to the region."--Publisher's description.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems, MobiWIS 2019, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in August 2019. The 23 full papers presented together with 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The papers of the MobiWIS 2019 deal with areas such as: mobile apps and services; web and mobile applications; security and privacy; wireless networks and cloud computing; intelligent mobile applications; and mobile web and practical applications.

Proceedings of a workshop held in Berlin, 2018, focusing on manufacturing activities identified at archaeological sites. New excavation techniques, ethnographic research, archaeometric approaches, GIS, experimental archaeology, and theoretical issues associated with how researchers understand production in the past, are presented here.

This book is a provocative and invigorating real-time exploration of the future of human evolution by two of the world’s leading interdisciplinary ecologists – Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison. Steeped in a rich multitude of the sciences and humanities, the book enshrines an elegant narrative that is highly empathetic, personal, scientifically wide-ranging and original. It focuses on the geo-positioning of the human Self and its corresponding species. The book's overarching viewpoints and poignant through-story examine and powerfully challenge concepts associated historically with assertions of human superiority over all other life forms. Ultimately, The Hypothetical Species: Variables of Human Evolution is a deeply considered treatise on the ecological and psychological state of humanity and her options – both within, and outside the rubrics of evolutionary research – for survival. This important work is beautifully presented with nearly 200 diverse illustrations, and is introduced with a foreword by famed paleobiologist, Dr. Melanie DeVore.

This report describes counterinsurgency strategies and practices and conditions in which U.S. small-footprint partnerships may succeed. Case studies of the Philippines and Pakistan reinforce quantitative findings and highlight challenges for the U.S. in influencing partners.

Report for May 1963 contains revised estimates of farm-mortgage debt for the period 1950-62.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems, MobiWIS 2021, held as a virtual event, in August 2021. The 15 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers of MobiWIS 2021 deal focus on topics such as security and privacy; web and mobile applications; networking and communication; intelligent information systems; and IoT and ubiquitous computing.

This annual publication (published separately in English and Spanish) examines political, social, environmental, and educational issues concerning indigenous peoples around the world in 2000-01. Part 1 describes current situations and events in 11 world regions: the Arctic; North America; Mexico and Central America; South America; Australia and the Pacific; north, east, central, and southern Africa; south Asia; and east and southeast Asia. In general, indigenous peoples worldwide were dealing with issues related to land rights, self-determination, relations between central government and indigenous communities, outright oppression and violence, environmental degradation and destruction by economic development projects, communal rights, women's rights, access to appropriate education and to health care, and preservation of indigenous cultures and languages. Articles of educational interest on the Arctic and the Americas discuss the shortage of Greenlandic-speaking college graduates in Greenland and related issues of language use; support for Saami language use in Sweden and Finland; shortages of schools and teachers in indigenous areas of arctic Russia; implementation of Inuit traditional knowledge and the Inuktitut language in all government functions in Nunavut; efforts of the Innu Nation in Labrador to gain control of education; poor condition of educational facilities on U.S. American Indian reservations; little progress on Mayan demands for culturally relevant education in Guatemala; controversy over scientific research on indigenous lands in Venezuela; and Mapuche student protests in Chile. Other education-related articles discuss efforts to preserve Amazigh culture and language in Morocco, Algeria, and Libya; implementation of education programs for San children in Namibia; native language instruction in Botswana villages; demands for equal language rights in Nepal; need to establish a new education system and language policy in East Timor; and educational policies for ethnic minorities in Cambodia and Vietnam. Part 2 reports on United Nations work on indigenous rights and the proposed integration of nonindependent countries in U.N. activities. (SV).

The United States has been deeply involved in the Middle East for more than a half century and seized with China's role in the world for a similar period of time. Up to now, the two issues have remained distinct. Increasingly, China's growing thirst for energy has brought it to the Middle East, where governments are curious how the growing superpower might fit into their own strategic understanding of the world. China's increasing role in the Middle East comes at a time when the United States is itself deeply enmeshed in the region, setting up the possibility of competition or even conflict between the two great powers. This volume explores the complex interrelationships among China, the United States, and the Middle East-what the authors call the "vital triangle." There is surely much to be gained from continuing the conventional two-dimensional analysis-China and the United States, the United States and the Middle East, and China and the Middle East. Such scholarship has a long history and no doubt a long future. But it is the three-dimensional equation-which seeks to understand the effects of the China-Middle East relationship on the United States, the U.S.-Middle East relationship on China, and the Sino-American relationship on the Middle East-that draws the authors' attention here. This approach captures the true dynamics of change in world affairs and the spiraling up and down of national interests. Central to this analysis is a belief that if any one of the three sides of this triangular relationship is unhappy, it has the power to make the other two unhappy as well. The stakes and the intimacy of the interrelationship highlight not only the importance of reaching accommodation, but also the potential payoff of agreement on common purpose.