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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 254-263). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

published_or_final_version / Business Administration / Master / Master of Business Administration

Wong Wai Kin. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 195-200). / Wong Wai Kin. / Acknowledgements --- p.i / Abstract --- p.ii / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Kelvin features in easterly surges in southern China --- p.5 / Chapter 1.2 --- Northerly surges in southern China --- p.7 / Chapter 1.3 --- Objectives and Methodology --- p.8 / Chapter 2 --- Theory of Kelvin Waves against an Incline --- p.9 / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2 --- General formalism --- p.13 / Chapter 2.3 --- Vertical barrier --- p.17 / Chapter 2 4 --- Infinite incline --- p.18 / Chapter 2.5 --- Finite incline --- p.21 / Chapter 2.6 --- Analysis of scales and non-dimensional variables --- p.24 / Chapter 2.7 --- The governing equation of pressure disturbance --- p.30 / Chapter 2.7.1 --- Variational Principle --- p.31 / Chapter 2.7.2 --- Integration of continuity equation --- p.32 / Chapter 2 8 --- Kelvin waves against a topography --- p.33 / Chapter 2.9 --- Summary --- p.37 / Chapter 3 --- Numerical Study of Linear Kelvin Waves --- p.39 / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.39 / Chapter 3.2 --- Shallow Water Wave Theory --- p.40 / Chapter 3.3 --- Kelvin wave in the presence of topography --- p.43 / Chapter 3.4 --- Numerical model --- p.47 / Chapter 3.5 --- Uniform or slowly varying topography depth --- p.50 / Chapter 3.5.1 --- Uniform topographical depth --- p.51 / Chapter 3.5.2 --- Slowly varying bottom topography --- p.52 / Chapter 3.6 --- Numerical study on infinite incline --- p.54 / Chapter 3.7 --- Finite incline --- p.57 / Chapter 3.8 --- Numerical experiments using more realistic terrain --- p.61 / Chapter 3.8.1 --- Experiment A --- p.61 / Chapter 3.8.2 --- Experiment --- p.64 / Chapter 3.9 --- Further discussion --- p.69 / Chapter 3.10 --- Coastal Kelvin waves features of northeasterly cold surges in Southern China --- p.74 / Chapter 3.11 --- Summary --- p.75 / Chapter 4 --- Nonlinear Kelvin Waves Features --- p.78 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.78 / Chapter 4.2 --- Mathematical Model --- p.82 / Chapter 4.3 --- Existence of Non-linear Travelling Solution --- p.85 / Chapter 4.4 --- Qualitative discussion on solution --- p.86 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Linearized equation at Z = 0 --- p.87 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- Linearized equations at Z1 --- p.88 / Chapter 4.4.3 --- Case with no viscosity --- p.88 / Chapter 4.4.4 --- Case with viscosity: m2 > m2 > 0 --- p.92 / Chapter 4.4.5 --- Case with viscosity: m2 > m2 > 0 --- p.94 / Chapter 4.5 --- Expression for the wave speed --- p.95 / Chapter 4.5.1 --- Solitary Wave --- p.96 / Chapter 4.5.2 --- Travelling Wave --- p.96 / Chapter 4.6 --- Numerical Calculations --- p.98 / Chapter 4.6.1 --- Shooting method --- p.98 / Chapter 4.6.2 --- Nonlinear Periodic Solution --- p.100 / Chapter 4.6.3 --- Nonlinear Solitary Wave Solution --- p.100 / Chapter 4.6.4 --- Oscillatory Travelling Wave Solution --- p.102 / Chapter 4.6.5 --- Monotonic Travelling Wave Solution --- p.104 / Chapter 4.7 --- Wave Disturbance along y direction --- p.107 / Chapter 4 8 --- Existence of the terrain gradient --- p.109 / Chapter 4.9 --- Summary --- p.116 / Chapter 5 --- Froude Number Study on Northerly Cold surges --- p.118 / Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction --- p.118 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Prediction of cold surges passing over the NanLing Range --- p.118 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- Theoretical studies on orographic blocking effect and the Froude number --- p.119 / Chapter 5.2 --- Methodology --- p.123 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Physical meaning of the Froude number --- p.123 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Definition of northerly cold surges --- p.125 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Method of calculation using ECMWF data set --- p.126 / Chapter 5 .2. --- 4 Calculation using the meteorological station data --- p.127 / Chapter 5.3 --- Result --- p.127 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Froude Number Statistics using ECMWF data --- p.127 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- Froude number statistics using meteorological station data --- p.133 / Chapter 5.4 --- Non-dimensional number statistics combining rotation and stratification --- p.135 / Chapter 5.5 --- Summary --- p.138 / Chapter 6 --- Diagnostic Study on Northerly Cold Surge --- p.140 / Chapter 6.1 --- Introduction --- p.140 / Chapter 6. 2 --- Diagnostic variables in the study --- p.141 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Diagnosis of geopotential tendency in terms of advection of relative vorticity --- p.142 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Diagnosis of the vertical motion --- p.144 / Chapter 6.3 --- Data and calculation --- p.147 / Chapter 6.4 --- Results and Discussion --- p.149 / Chapter 6. 4 --- .1 Brief description on the cold surge --- p.149 / Chapter 6.4.2 --- Diagnosis using ECMWF data set --- p.149 / Chapter 6.4.3 --- Diagnosis using the limited area model simulation results --- p.161 / Chapter 6.5 --- Summary --- p.162 / Chapter 7 --- Conclusion --- p.169 / Appendices --- p.172 / Chapter A --- Non-dimensional Governing Equations --- p.172 / Chapter B --- Governing Equation for Pressure Disturbance --- p.177 / Chapter B.1 --- Variation Approach --- p.177 / Chapter B.2 --- Integration of Continuity Equation --- p.180 / Chapter C --- "Semigeostrophic Theory, Dispersion and Dissipation" --- p.182 / Chapter C.1 --- Semigeostrophic Approximation --- p.182 / Chapter C.2 --- Dispersive effects --- p.188 / Chapter C.3 --- Dissipative effects --- p.190 / Chapter D --- Bibliography

In October 2003, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) proposed the establishment of a security, economic and socio-cultural community by the year 2020. Given that initiators of the ASEAN proposal were informed by the scholarly literature on the concept of a 'security community', this dissertation develops and then tests the concept in relation to the ASEAN states. Here, the concept of a 'security community' is understood as 'a transnational grouping of two or more states whose sovereignty is increasingly amalgamated and whose people maintain dependable expectations of peaceful change'. The application of the 'security community framework' developed in this study is necessary to provide a conceptual basis for critically assessing the major factors that could potentially impede ASEAN's evolution towards a security community. For the purpose of such an assessment, the study provides a detailed investigation of the most significant historical issues and contemporary security challenges that inform the nature of inter-state relations in Southeast Asia. As a complement to this approach, the dissertation incorporates the analysis of data obtained from extensive fieldwork in all ten of the ASEAN states involving over 100 in-depth interviews and two survey designs (one at the elite level and another at the communal level) involving 919 participants. While the survey work, especially at the communal level, is best considered a pilot study and the results are therefore to be considered as indicative, the research nevertheless represents the first empirical assessment of regional perceptions of trust, intra-mural relations, security, economic integration, and liberalisation and of a broad range of other factors relevant to the analysis. The interview data has also been invaluable in uncovering previously unpublished information and in contextualising the analysis. Despite a considerable strengthening of the region's security architecture since ASEAN's formation, the ten chapters in the study reveal that the Association has a long way to travel before it will satisfy the defining criteria of a security community. The region lacks a common sense of community and consequently the level of trust between the Southeast Asian states remains problematic. The political elite continue to engage in episodes of competitive behaviour, have been unable to resolve territorial disputes, and thus the continued potential for armed conflict undermines the prospect for 'dependable expectations of peaceful change'. Therefore, ASEAN's evolution towards the status of a security community, if it proceeds further, will likely occur over the course of many decades rather than by ASEAN's current goal of 2015.

published_or_final_version / Comparative Asian Studies / Master / Master of Arts

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by Joseph Y.W. Pang. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1981. / Bibliography: leaves 43-44.

<p> The issue of southern Thailand becoming the next battleground for international <i> jihadist</i> terrorist organizations&mdash;such as al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or Jemaah Islamiyah&mdash;has reemerged as a prominent security concern following the defeats sustained by ISIS in the Middle East and the dispersion of its fighting force. While the prospect was hotly debated a decade ago, the majority of contemporary scholarship contends that <i> jihadism</i> will find little audience with the Malay Muslims in Thailand&rsquo;s Deep South, whose Shafi&rsquo;i population does not espouse the conservative Salafist beliefs underlying global <i>jihad</i>&mdash;a religiously-charged violent campaign against <i>infidels</i> (non-believers), <i> munafik</i> (traitorous Muslims), and bastions of state secularism and Western liberal values. It is furthermore believed that because southern Thailand&rsquo;s armed groups are fighting a nationalist struggle for independence, as opposed to fighting for more ideological reasons, they would not be amenable to <i>jihadist</i> involvement in their conflict. </p><p> Although it is true that Malay-Muslim militants in Thailand have declined offers of foreign fighters from international terrorist organizations, the cooperation between various separatist movements in Mindanao and global <i> jihadist</i> groups reveals that ethno-nationalism and ideological dissonance are insufficient causes for a rejection of <i>jihadism</i>. Rather, I argue that secessionists develop ties with <i>jihadist</i> groups when they are in need of political, financial, or military support they cannot secure from a legal entity, such as a state. This often occurs when one militant faction breaks away from its state-sponsored parent group following the signing of a peace deal it considers unappealing. Insurgent groups in Thailand have been inclined to distance themselves from <i>jihadism</i> because they have already acquired state patronage from Malaysia, and association with terrorist organizations would likely undermine that relationship. Strategic decisions to cooperate with <i>jihadist</i> organizations are thus executed according to a cost-benefit analysis and are not exclusively determined by ideological predilections.</p><p>

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