David Brewster
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3759745 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Brewster |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Brewster |
| ASSINATURA | BREWSTER D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2623-3780 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 76 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1830 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Continuity and change in drug treatment
Drug policy goals in a changing landscape
Explaining the reproduction of illegal drug use control regimes in Japan
Despite current global trends towards diversification in policy responses to illegal drug use, including growing criticism of the War on Drugs, Japan continues to retain an ardently prohibitive approach. This article explains the reproduction of prohibitionist policies in Japan throughout the post-War period through use of the Multi-Centred Governance (MCG) thesis. This thesis acknowledges the facilitative power of exogenous shocks to the policy …
Negotiating the family order and the initiation of methamphetamine use in Japan
This article uses the concept of the “negotiated order” as developed by McAra and McVie to focus on the role and nature of the “family order” in shaping the initiation of methamphetamine use in Japan. Presenting empirical qualitative data from multiple life-story interviews with 11 men with a history of methamphetamine use, the findings demonstrate that while there were variegated paths that led to initiation of use, a common factor was family br…
Crime Control in Japan
Theories about crime control in Japan have largely been based around two opposing traditions. On the one hand, cultural explanations have emphasized the exceptional attributes of Japanese social relations that contribute towards shaming and re-integrative processes. On the other hand, more recent explanations assert that Japanese crime control is converging with other countries, particularly towards penal populism. Both approaches tend to reduce …
The structured ambivalence of cannabis control in England & Wales
Give light, and the darkness will disappear
There is a growing understanding among maritime security practitioners of the importance of Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) as an essential enabler of maritime security. This article describes Australia’s efforts to develop an integrated national MDA system that brings together data and intelligence from a range of military and civil agencies and commercial sources to which a risk-based assessment is applied. This has become an essential tool to …
India’s Ocean
India’s Ocean: can China and India coexist?." Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, 14(3), pp. 371–372
Distinctly divergent or hanging onto English coat-tails? Drug policy in post-devolution Wales
The process of Welsh devolution has marshalled major political, social and institutional change. While scholars within various disciplines have attempted to make sense of these changes, the discipline of criminology remains something of an exception. This article offers an examination of the unique Welsh criminal justice policy space that has been opened up by devolution in Wales. The article provides a long overdue assessment of how drug policy …
India and China at Sea
A Critical Assessment of Indications of the National Prevalence of Illegal Drug Use in Japan
Indications of the national prevalence of illegal drug use in Japan have largely been presented from two main sources: official police-recorded statistics and a national self-report survey. Their findings have been often used to support a representation of Japan as having relatively low levels of illegal drug use in comparison to other developed countries. However, the use and presentation of these sources has rarely considered in any meaningful …
Cocos and Christmas Islands
Australia’s Cocos Islands and Christmas Island are remote islands with potentially great significance for Australia’s strategic role in the eastern Indian Ocean region and the wider Indo-Pacific. This paper explores the growing militarization of islands throughout the Indian Ocean in the context of growing strategic competition in the region. It then considers the strategic value of Australia’s Indian Ocean territories and makes recommendations a…
Chagos
Diego Garcia is a sort of a Shangri-la of the Indian Ocean. The island of Diego Garcia, and the rest of the Chagos archipelago, sits right in the middle of that huge ocean, pretty much in the middl
Silk Roads and Strings of Pearls
Control over access to the Indian Ocean is often seen through a highly securitised lens. Strategic actors have long sought to use geographical constraints to maintain the region as a relatively enclosed strategic space. It has only a few narrow maritime entrance points and the littoral is not well connected to the interior of the Eurasian continent. These factors have contributed to the historical domination of the Indian Ocean by a succession of…
The Indian Ocean Dialogue
This issue of the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region includes a selection of papers from the second Indian Ocean Dialogue (IOD) held in Perth in September 2015. The Dialogue was opened by the Austr
Australia and India
Australia and India: mapping the journey 1944–2014." Contemporary South Asia, 24(1), pp. 120–121
India and the Persian Gulf
The Persian Gulf is a crucial strategic space for India. Given India's size, its growing economic and military power, and its proximity, one might expect that India would be a natural regional security provider or even a hegemon in the gulf. But India's ability to project its influence in the area is severely constrained by ideological factors, domestic politics, and longstanding patterns of alignment and rivalry. This article explores India's co…
System of Mechanical Philosophy
System of Mechanical Philosophy
System of Mechanical Philosophy
A treatise on optics
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
China-India Relations in the Contemporary World
Great Power Competition and Order Building in the Indo-Pacific
India and China at Sea
Protecting China’s interests overseas
Protecting China’s interests overseas: Securitization and foreign policy." Journal of Strategic Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Modi's world
Modi's world: expanding India's sphere of influence." Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, 12(1), pp. E-8–E-9
Evaluation of an Australian indigenous housing programme
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Housing programmes in indigenous Australian communities have focused largely on achieving good standards of infrastructure function. The impact of this approach was assessed on three potentially important housing-related influences on child health at the community level: (1) crowding, (2) the functional state of the house infrastructure and (3) the hygienic condition of the houses. METHODS: A before-and-after study, including …
An Indian Ocean dilemma
This paper looks at the key strategic issues faced by China in the Indian Ocean within the context of growing Sino-Indian rivalry. It makes two basic arguments: first, that China has considerable strategic disadvantages in the Indian Ocean as compared with India; and second, that India has had more success than China in developing security relationships in the region. These propositions differ from a more common narrative, according to which Chin…
Beyond the ‘String of Pearls’
The article will ask whether Sino-Indian strategic competition in the Indian Ocean should be properly understood through the lens of a security dilemma. It examines the strategic positions of India and China in the Indian Ocean and concludes that India has an overwhelming strategic advantage that China cannot realistically mitigate in the foreseeable future. This advantage precludes any real security dilemma arising between them. In fact, both Ch…
Silk Roads and Strings of Pearls
Control over access to the Indian Ocean is often seen through a highly securitised lens. Strategic actors have long sought to use geographical constraints to maintain the region as a relatively enclosed strategic space. It has only a few narrow maritime entrance points and the littoral is not well connected to the interior of the Eurasian continent. These factors have contributed to the historical domination of the Indian Ocean by a succession of…
Australia and India
Many Australian observers see Australia and India as ‘natural’ partners whose strategic perspectives are likely to become ever closer in coming years. This article will examine recent developments in the Australia–India security relationship and consider some possible limits to the strategic convergence of Australia and India, particularly in Indian Ocean security. It argues that Australia's challenge in coming years will be not only to address a…
India's Strategic Partnership with Vietnam
For more than 40 years, India and Vietnam have consistently stood together in resisting Chinese domination of Indochina. The relationship represents one of the few longstanding political partnerships between East and South Asia. In recent years, the two have been seeking to recalibrate their relationship in the context not only of China's growing economic and military power but also India's own security ambitions in the region. What are India's a…
Indian Strategic Thinking About the Indian Ocean
It is sometimes claimed that India has ambitions to become the leading power in the Indian Ocean. This article examines the different streams of Indian strategic thinking about the Indian Ocean and how they will likely contribute to future Indian strategic behavior. It argues that although many among its elite aspire for India to eventually become the leading power in the Indian Ocean, there is little conceptualization as to what India needs to d…
Dividing Lines
Our mental maps of the world, including our perceptions of where regions begin and end, can have profound consequences on strategic behavior. For decades there has been a sharp division between what we understand to be the regions of South Asia and Southeast Asia. The line between them effectively cuts the Bay of Bengal in two. These perceptions have inhibited a proper analysis of the strategic dynamics of the area. This article argues that the B…
Total destruction of the Tamil Tigers
Although the civil war in Sri Lanka ended some four years ago, relatively little objective military or strategic analysis has been published on it. Memories of the war may now be receding, but it w
Operation Lal Dora
As India expands its strategic reach in the Indian Ocean, it will need friends that it can count on. The island state of Mauritius has long been one of India's closest allies in the region. This article discusses India's plans for a military intervention in Mauritius in 1983 to prevent a feared coup that may have threatened India's interests. A naval task force was readied, but the intervention did not proceed because of disagreements in India's …
India's Defense Strategy and the India-Asean Relationship
India's defence strategy towards Southeast Asia can be understood in terms of two broad sets of strategic objectives which drive India's relationships in the region. The first is a perceived imperative to be the predominant power in the northeast Indian Ocean. The second is India's objective to assume a greater strategic role in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. India's aspirations to increase its defence presence in the region are broadly consiste…
China and India
In coming years, the relationship between China and India is likely to become one of the most important in the world. As China and India rise as major economic and military powers, the relationship
The India-Japan Security Relationship
In 2008, India and Japan made a joint security declaration while asserting that a strategic partnership between the two countries would become an essential pillar for the future architecture of the region. This article examines whether the security declaration is a step toward building an enduring security partnership. It will consider perceptions in Japan and India of the bilateral security relationship, proposals for how to give it substance, a…
India's security partnership with Singapore
In recent years, India and Singapore have developed a strong bilateral security and economic partnership that has assumed a central position in India's strategic engagement in Southeast Asia. Having sought strategic engagement with India for many decades, Singapore has now successfully positioned itself as India's leading political partner and economic gateway to the region. At the same time, India and Singapore have actively pursued close defenc…
Crime Control in Japan
Theories about crime control in Japan have largely been based around two opposing traditions. On the one hand, cultural explanations have emphasized the exceptional attributes of Japanese social relations that contribute towards shaming and re-integrative processes. On the other hand, more recent explanations assert that Japanese crime control is converging with other countries, particularly towards penal populism. Both approaches tend to reduce …
Cocos and Christmas Islands
Australia’s Cocos Islands and Christmas Island are remote islands with potentially great significance for Australia’s strategic role in the eastern Indian Ocean region and the wider Indo-Pacific. This paper explores the growing militarization of islands throughout the Indian Ocean in the context of growing strategic competition in the region. It then considers the strategic value of Australia’s Indian Ocean territories and makes recommendations a…
Australia and India
Australia and India: mapping the journey 1944–2014." Contemporary South Asia, 24(1), pp. 120–121
Indian Strategic Thinking about East Asia
Since the end of the Cold War, India's strategic horizons have moved beyond its traditional preoccupations in South Asia. India is developing a strategic role in East Asia in particular. At the same time India's strategic thinking has undergone a revolution, as the country that prided itself on non-alignment has moved closer to the West. But India's culture, history and geography still fundamentally shape its worldview. In engaging with East Asia…
The Relationship between India and Indonesia
This article examines the evolution of relations between India and Indonesia. It argues that there are grounds to believe that this relationship may develop into a broadbased security partnership over time. Whether this occurs sooner rather than later will depend on the extent to which both countries see an imperative to turn their numerous complementary interests into practical deeds
Toward Comprehensive Rural Policy
The Edinburgh encyclopædia /
The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia (1808-1830) was produced and edited by Sir David Brewster, the Scottish man of science who invented the kaleidoscope in 1816. As such, it was a work that incorporated the latest knowledge and developments in science and technology, as well as covering the full range of subjects expected in works of this kind in the early nineteenth century. It quickly became a competitor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, another Scottis…
Notice of an Artificial Cave in the Parish of Alvey, Inverness-shire
Sir David Brewster gives a notice of an artificial cave uncovered near Kingussie. The notice is accompanied by an illustration of the cave
The Interpretation of Social Change in Literature
Recent Reforms at the Zeitouna
Toward Comprehensive Rural Policy
Skin infection, housing and social circumstances in children living in remote Indigenous communities
Background Poor housing conditions in remote Indigenous communities in Australia are a major underlying factor in poor child health, including high rates of skin infections. The aim of this study is to test approaches to data collection, analysis and feedback for a follow-up study of the impact of housing conditions on child health. Methods Participation was negotiated in three communities with community councils and individual participants. Data…
A case study of physical and social barriers to hygiene and child growth in remote Australian Aboriginal communities
There is a need to address policy and the management of infrastructure, as well as key parenting and childcare practices that allow the high burden of infection among children to persist. The common characteristics of many remote Aboriginal communities in Australia suggest that these findings may be more widely applicable
India's Strategic Partnership with Vietnam
For more than 40 years, India and Vietnam have consistently stood together in resisting Chinese domination of Indochina. The relationship represents one of the few longstanding political partnerships between East and South Asia. In recent years, the two have been seeking to recalibrate their relationship in the context not only of China's growing economic and military power but also India's own security ambitions in the region. What are India's a…
India's security partnership with Singapore
In recent years, India and Singapore have developed a strong bilateral security and economic partnership that has assumed a central position in India's strategic engagement in Southeast Asia. Having sought strategic engagement with India for many decades, Singapore has now successfully positioned itself as India's leading political partner and economic gateway to the region. At the same time, India and Singapore have actively pursued close defenc…
Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton
Sir David Brewster (1781–1868) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer of international reputation. His biography of Sir Isaac Newton, published in 1855 and reissued in 1860, was the result of over twenty years' research, undertaken while publishing hundreds of scientific papers of his own. Brewster made use of previously unknown correspondence by Newton, and his own scientific interests, particularly in optics, …
Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton
Sir David Brewster (1781–1868) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer of international reputation. His biography of Sir Isaac Newton, published in 1855 and reissued in 1860, was the result of over twenty years' research, undertaken while publishing hundreds of scientific papers of his own. Brewster made use of previously unknown correspondence by Newton, and his own scientific interests, particularly in optics, …
An ecological approach to health promotion in remote Australian Aboriginal communities
Poor environmental conditions and poor child health in remote Australian Aboriginal communities are a symptom of a disjuncture in the cultures of a disadvantaged (and only relatively recently enfranchised) minority population and a proportionally large, wealthy dominant immigrant population, problematic social policies and the legacy of colonialism. Developing effective health promotion interventions in this environment is a challenge. Taking an …
Is the Scottish population living dangerously? Prevalence of multiple risk factors
The prevalence of multiple behavioural risk factors was high and the prevalence of absence of all risk factors very low. These behavioural patterns were strongly associated with poorer socioeconomic circumstances. Policy to address factors needs to be joined up and better consider underlying socioeconomic circumstances
Exploring cross-sectional associations between common childhood illness, housing and social conditions in remote Australian Aboriginal communities
These findings add to other evidence that building programs need to be supported by a range of other social and behavioural interventions for potential health gains to be more fully realised
The India-Japan Security Relationship
In 2008, India and Japan made a joint security declaration while asserting that a strategic partnership between the two countries would become an essential pillar for the future architecture of the region. This article examines whether the security declaration is a step toward building an enduring security partnership. It will consider perceptions in Japan and India of the bilateral security relationship, proposals for how to give it substance, a…
Australia and India
Many Australian observers see Australia and India as ‘natural’ partners whose strategic perspectives are likely to become ever closer in coming years. This article will examine recent developments in the Australia–India security relationship and consider some possible limits to the strategic convergence of Australia and India, particularly in Indian Ocean security. It argues that Australia's challenge in coming years will be not only to address a…
India's Developing Relationship with South Korea
The long-standing strategic disconnect between South Asia and the Korean Peninsula is breaking down. Driven by the changing balance of power in Asia, India and South Korea have developed a strong economic partnership, and taken small but significant steps toward a political and security relationship that refects their numerous shared strategic interests. This article explores the contours of this evolving relationship
Letters on Natural Magic
Intended as a supplement to Sir Walter Scott's 1830 Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, this 1832 publication seeks to explain and expose the science behind the alleged 'magic' of spiritualists and conjurors. David Brewster (1781–1868), a Scottish natural philosopher and historian of science, was highly regarded in his lifetime but has since faded into obscurity. Penned at the request of Scott, Brewster's friend and neighbour, this book follows…
Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton
Letters on Natural Magic, Addressed to Sir Walter Scott
Letter Ix
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