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Under the Nuclear Shadow

China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security

By: Fiona S. Cunningham

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Under the Nuclear Shadow

China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security

By: Fiona S. Cunningham

How and why China has pursued information-age weapons to gain leverage against its adversaries How can states use military force to achieve their political aims without triggering a catastrophic nuclear war? Among the states facing this dilemma of fighting limited wars, only China has given information-age weapons such a prominent role. While other countries have preferred the traditional options of threatening to use nuclear weapons or fielding capabilities for decisive conventional military victories, China has instead chosen to rely on offensive cyber operations, counterspace capabilities, and precision conventional missiles to coerce its adversaries. In Under the Nuclear Shadow, Fiona Cunningham examines this distinctive aspect of China’s post–Cold War deterrence strategy, developing an original theory of “strategic substitution.” When crises with the United States highlighted the inadequacy of China’s existing military capabilities, Cunningham argues, China pursued information-age weapons that promised to rapidly provide credible leverage against adversaries. Drawing on hundreds of original Chinese-language sources and interviews with security experts in China, Cunningham provides a rare and candid glimpse from Beijing into the information-age technologies that are reshaping how states gain leverage in the twenty-first century. She offers unprecedented insights into the trajectory of China’s military modernization, as she details the strengths and weaknesses of China’s strategic substitution approach. Under the Nuclear Shadow also looks ahead at the uncertain future of China’s strategic substitution approach and briefly explores too how other states might seize upon the promise of emerging technologies to address weaknesses in their own military strategies.

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Princeton University Press

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0691261032

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9780691261034

The Only Mind Worth Having

Thomas Merton and the Child Mind

By: Gardner Fiona

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The Only Mind Worth Having

Thomas Merton and the Child Mind

By: Gardner Fiona

In The Only Mind Worth Having, Fiona Gardner takes Thomas Merton's belief that the child mind is the only mind worth having and explores it in the context of Jesus' challenging, paradoxical, and enigmatic command to become like small children. Shedemonstrates how Merton's belief and Jesus' command can be understood as part of contemporary spirituality and spiritual practice. To follow Christ's command requires a great leap of the imagination. Gardner examines what it might mean to make this leap when one is an adult without it becoming sentimental and mawkish, or regressive and pathological. Using both psychological and spiritual insights, and drawing on the experiences of Thomas Merton and others, Gardner suggests that in some mysterious and paradoxical way recovering a sense of childhood spirituality is the path towards spiritual maturity. The move from childhood spirituality to adulthood and on to a spiritual maturity through the child mind is a move from innocence to experienceto organised innocence, or from dependence to independence to a state of being in-dependence with God.

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230

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Lutterworth Press

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0718844742

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9780718844745

English Legal System in Context 6e

By: Fiona Cownie,Anthony Bradney,Mandy Burton

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English Legal System in Context 6e

By: Fiona Cownie,Anthony Bradney,Mandy Burton

This title has been written with a very simple aim in mind - to provide a text which will enable the English legal system to be taught as an interesting, intellectually stimulating course.

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Oxford University Press

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0199656568

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9780199656561

Managing US-China Nuclear Risks: A Guide for Australia

By: Fiona Cunningham

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Managing US-China Nuclear Risks: A Guide for Australia

By: Fiona Cunningham

There is a small risk of deliberate nuclear use and a larger risk of inadvertent nuclear use in a future US-China conflict, both of which could increase if the possibility of conflict grows or if Washington or Beijing pursue more ambitious nuclear strategies. China’s nuclear strategy has to date focused on deterring an adversary’s nuclear threats and use. While its recent nuclear arsenal modernisation is consistent with this strategy, Beijing has acquired new capabilities that could enable a shift to a nuclear first-use strategy. The United States and China are not in a nuclear arms race. Nevertheless, efforts by the United States to maintain its current margin of superiority over China’s nuclear forces, or to deter North Korea or Russia, could prompt further growth in China’s arsenal. Australia’s interests would be best served by an allied military strategy for countering China that emphasises robust conventional capabilities, relies on US nuclear weapons to deter the unlikely prospect of Chinese nuclear first-use, and strives to mitigate the risks of inadvertent nuclear escalation. Australia should work through existing mechanisms for consultation in the alliance, as well as multilateral fora, to lessen the risks of nuclear use in a future US-China conflict scenario and support informal arms control among the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

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United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney

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1742104967

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9781742104966

Taking Heart

Experiences of Spiritual Searching, Self-Acceptance and Journeying to the Heart of Faith

By: Fiona Gardner

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Taking Heart

Experiences of Spiritual Searching, Self-Acceptance and Journeying to the Heart of Faith

By: Fiona Gardner

The meaning and mystery of life is ultimately found in personal relationship, sometimes with another and, for those who search, sometimes with God. In Taking Heart the experiences of four people who are spiritually searching and looking for a direct experience of God are explored, and their different journeys through self-doubt to self-acceptance and to the heart of faith are discussed. These four people are neither especially religious nor spiritual, and nor are they famous. They are ordinary people on an extraordinary search for meaning. As with all journeys there is discovery but also an uncovering and a recovering. All heart journeys are an exodus that takes us out of captivity and are also the passion story which is at the heart of the mystery of faith, a journey through the very worst and towards the very best. And, throughout the spiritual journey, God is shaping and forming our inner life in the unknown depths of our heart.

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John Hunt Publishing

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1789045444

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Mastering Whole Family Assessment in Social Work

Balancing the Needs of Children, Adults and Their Families

By: Fiona Mainstone

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Mastering Whole Family Assessment in Social Work

Balancing the Needs of Children, Adults and Their Families

By: Fiona Mainstone

How do you keep the whole family in mind when carrying out social work assessment? How do you balance the needs of adults and children? How do you ensure that children's welfare and safety are everyone's priority when families face complex difficulties? Mastering Whole Family Assessment in Social Work brings together what social workers in adult and children services need to know about assessment across both services. With tools and frameworks that make sense of the interface between adult life difficulties, family problems, parenting capacity and children's needs, this practical guide will help social workers to think across professional and administrative divides. Case studies, practice vignettes, exercises and suggestions for further reading are included throughout the book to help the reader consider the well-being of the whole family when conducting and interpreting assessments. This guide will help social workers to think holistically and work collaboratively both with each other and with families.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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0857004840

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9780857004840

Under the Nuclear Shadow

China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security

By: Fiona S. Cunningham

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China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security

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Princeton University Press

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Book's by Fiona S. Cunningham

Under the Nuclear Shadow

Under the Nuclear Shadow

The Only Mind Worth Having

The Only Mind Worth Having

English Legal System in Context 6e

English Legal System in Context 6e

Managing US-China Nuclear Risks: A Guide for Australia

Managing US-China Nuclear Risks: A Guide for Australia

Taking Heart

Taking Heart

Mastering Whole Family Assessment in Social Work

Mastering Whole Family Assessment in Social Work

Under the Nuclear Shadow

Under the Nuclear Shadow

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