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Democratization is the most comprehensive volume on this critical field of contemporary politics, with insightful coverage of all the key theories, actors, dynamics, and developments. Unrivalled in its up-to-date empirical material and range of expert contributors, this text is an invaluable resource to all students of democratization.

This monograph describes the constitution and properties of magnesium-based alloys containing rare-earth metals. The dependence of their characteristics on their atomic number and place in the periodic table are presented and new ideas for rare-earth metals as alloying additives to magnesium are discussed.

Presents a comprehensive account of the principles and applications of magnetooptics. This book surveys a wide range of magnetooptic materials, including metals, alloys, and granular structures. It explores applications of magnetooptics in practical devices, such as modulators, switches, memory devices, and waveguides.

The application of nuclear physics methods is widespread throughout physics, chemistry, metallurgy, biology, clinical medicine, geology, and archaeology. This book provides scientists and engineers with an understanding of the basic principles of nuclear methods and their potential for applications in a wide range of disciplines.

Based on lectures given in the First Russian School-Seminar on electromagnetic soundings of the Earth held in Moscow on 15th November, 2003, this book provides scientists and technologists with the achievements in theory, techniques and practical applications of the methods of electromagnetic sounding.

The most notable new sections discuss heterogeneity in flow, rheology of highly concentrated emulsions and suspensions, viscosity and viscoelastic behavior of nanocomposites, behavior of supramolecular solutions, rheology of gels, deformation-induced anisotropy, conformation changes during flow, and molecular orientation.

Presents a survey of methods and results in an application area of Lie groups to difference equations and difference meshes (lattices). This work focuses on the formulation and mathematical substantiation of exact symmetry preservation in difference models, such as difference equations and meshes.

Presents the most general problems of protein structure, folding and function from the physics and chemistry perspective. This book deals with fibrous, membrane and water-soluble globular proteins, in both their native and denatured states. It includes the major aspects of protein physics and physico-chemical properties of polypeptide chains.

Based on documents from the tsarist era military, naval and diplomatic archives, this work gives an overview of the origins, structure and performance of Russian military intelligence in the Far East at the turn of the twentieth century, investigating developments in strategic and tactical military espionage, as well as combat renaissance.

When analyzing systems with a large number of parameters, the dimen sion of the original system may present insurmountable difficulties for the analysis.

Offers an examination of the evolution of Russian-NATO relations since the Cold War. This book shows to what extent cooperative security could serve as a means to bridge the gap between two supposedly antagonistic entities: NATO and Russia.

The theory of social choice deals with both the processes and results of col lective decision making. The basic problem of social choice We explain here more precisely what a problem of social choice is, what approaches might be used to tackle it, and what kind of solutions it leads to.

This book describes the theory of superconducting fluctuations, which connects two major topics in statistical physics - the theory of phase transitions and the theory of superconductivity. It presents a complete encyclopedia of superconducting fluctuations, summarising the last thirty-five years of work in the field.