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The Foundations of British Maritime Ascendancy: Resources, Logistics and the State, 1755–1815

英国称霸大洋的基础：1755-1815年的资源、后勤与国家

Cambridge University Press Roger Morriss

ISBN：9781107670136，出版年：2010，中图分类号：E1

British power and global expansion between 1755 and 1815 have mainly been attributed to the fiscal-military state and the achievements of the Royal navy at sea. Roger Morriss here sheds new light on the broader range of developments in the infrastructure of the state needed to extend British power at sea and overseas. He demonstrates how developments in culture, experience and control in central government affected the supply of ships, manpower, food, transport and ordnance as well as the support of the army, permitting the maintenance of armed forces of unprecedented size and their projection to distant stations. He reveals how the British state, although dependent on the private sector, built a partnership with it based on trust, ethics and the law. This book argues that Britain's military bureaucracy, traditionally regarded as inferior to the fighting services, was in fact the keystone of the nation's maritime ascendancy.

History of England Retriangulation of Great Britain Performance-based logistics Logical topology Institutional logic Autonomous logistics Information logistics Logistic mapping Integrated logistics support Logistic map

From Solidarity to Geopolitics: Support for Democracy among Postcommunist States

从团结到地理政治：后共产主义国家的民主支持

Cambridge University Press Tsveta Petrova

ISBN：9781107699755，出版年：2014，中图分类号：D73/77

This book theorizes a mechanism underlying regime-change waves, the deliberate efforts of diffusion entrepreneurs to spread a particular regime and regime-change model across state borders. Why do only certain states and non-state actors emerge as such entrepreneurs? Why, how, and how effectively do they support regime change abroad? To answer these questions, the book studies the entrepreneurs behind the third wave of democratization, with a focus on the new eastern European democracies - members of the European Union. The study finds that it is not the strongest democracies nor the democracies trying to ensure their survival in a neighborhood of non-democracies that become the most active diffusion entrepreneurs. It is, instead, the countries where the organizers of the domestic democratic transitions build strong solidarity movements supporting the spread of democracy abroad that do. The book also draws parallels between their activism abroad and their experiences with democratization and democracy assistance at home.

Democratic rationalization Industrial democracy Volunteered geographic information Universalism in geography Political rationality Organisational support National Policy Integrated logistics support Political science Social policy