NATO and Eastern Europe after 2000: Strategic Interactions with Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, and Bulgaria

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Donald A.S. Fraser is recognized as Canada's foremost academic statistician. This volume in his honor contains 25 papers contributed by international scholars. The essays are grouped in five sections: likelihood functions and related topics; nonparametric statistics and related topics; design of experiments and sampling; Bayes, empirical Bayes and decision theory; other inference related topics. A sample of titles includes: approximation of sample space derivatives; the complete convergence rates of the bootstrap mean; the role of experimental statistics; a review of recentered confidence sets; and the use of potential functions in modelling animal movement.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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NATO is acutely aware of its increased status as a force for stability in a drastically altered Atlantic community. The number of its initiatives is on the increase just as a new political, economic and military Europe emerges. The Cold War's end has wrought as many changes as there are continuities in the security environment. Eastern and Central European states, especially NATO and PfP members, enjoy an increasing importance to NATO, both as trading partners and as new participants in the civil society. While the literature on relations between NATO and the East Europeans is rather limited, the study of the overall posture of those states in the international system is almost non-existent, so that the consequences of their posture for NATO's renewed concept are unknown. The study of these countries' security posture and strategic interactions with Central European states in general promotes the renewed role of NATO. This book shows that each of the long-term relations with Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania and Bulgaria is subordinated to the goal of entering the European Union, and that their different values will makes relations difficult. This will test NATO's new strategic concept to the limit. It also shows the importance of strategic thinking.


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Starting with an introduction to a methodological approach offering an alternative to the French phenomenological school of strategic thought to explain and predict policy-making by governments, the author conducts an empirical analysis of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Based on interviews and document content analysis, case studies of new and aspiring members of NATO from Central Europe test the hypothesis of values influencing strategy or policy. Includes supporting figures and tables, and an extensive bibliography. No background information on the author is provided. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)


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