The US, the FTAA, and the Parameters of Global Governance

Brunelle, Dorval

doi:10.5040/9781350220249.ch-003

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“…[13][14][15][16][17][18][19] As for poly(butylene 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylate) (PBC), the cis-CHRM is rarely used. [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] Therefore, only the properties of PBC as a plastic are studied. [24][25][26][27] The effect of the cis-CHRM on its elasticity has been ignored.…”

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Soft segment free thermoplastic polyester elastomers with high performance

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International audienceA soft segment free thermoplastic polyester elastomer is fabricated by controlling the stereochemical structure of molecular chains with the utilization of the cis 1,4-cyclohexylene ring moiety (cis-CHRM) in poly(butylene 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylate) (PBC). PBC with 71% cis-CHRM exhibits good elasticity with shape recovery rates of 64% at 200% strain and 92% at break, tensile modulus, strength and elongation at break at 111 and 18 MPa and 1230%, respectively

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“…Synthesis of the ILs. GILs such as dihexyltetramethylguanidinium tetrafluoroborate (BDHG), dioctyltetramethylguanidinium tetrafluoroborate (BDOG) was synthesized from tetramethylguanidine by using a previously described method [16]. B106 was synthesized according to a previously described method [17].…”

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Tribological Investigation of Guanidinium Ionic Liquids as Lubricants for Steel/Bronze Contacts

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Liu

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Two kinds of guanidinium ionic liquids were synthesized. The thermal stabilities of the ionic liquids were evaluated by a hermogravimetric analyzer. Their tribological properties were investigated and compared with alkyl imidazole ionic liquids and liquid paraffin by SRV friction-wear test. The images of worn surfaces were observed under scanning electron microscope. X-ray photoelectron spectrometer analysis was carried out to explore the lubrication mechanism. The results showed that guanidinium ionic liquids were the best lubricants among the tested lubricants for steel/bronze contacts. Complex tribochemical reactions occurred during the sliding process and boundary lubrication films formed on the bronze/steel friction pair interface.

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“…143 But they, like the unofficial agents and negotiators of the NAFTA Commission, are not only 'technical', they are also the technical-ising ground troops of this programme. The provisions of chapters 11 and 20 arm them with weapons of classification that can 'defuse politically sensitive issues' 144 by rendering them 'technical', preventing them from being openly debated and addressed through politics.…”

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Governmental Regionalism: Power/ Knowledge and Neoliberal Regional Integration in Asia and Latin America

Donegan¹

2006

Millennium

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This paper presents a Foucauldian reading of regional integration projects based on the model of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as part of a strategy for the restructuring of national economies along neoliberal lines. Looking at the cases of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), the focus of the paper is on the roles played by technical `experts' in depoliticising decisions and issue-areas, understood as a central element of enabling this strategy. Moves toward regional governance can only be considered as a policy option at the national level if it is possible to distinguish `technical' from `political' within the domestic realm: only an area specified as `non-political' — that is, as posing no threat to national sovereignty — can be governed at a regional level through inter-state cooperation. Consequently, a necessary prerequisite for moving towards regional governance of national economic space is the establishment of a hegemonic political rationality that conceptualises the economic as technical and distinct from the political.

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The US, the FTAA, and the Parameters of Global Governance

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Soft segment free thermoplastic polyester elastomers with high performance

Soft segment free thermoplastic polyester elastomers with high performance

Tribological Investigation of Guanidinium Ionic Liquids as Lubricants for Steel/Bronze Contacts

Governmental Regionalism: Power/ Knowledge and Neoliberal Regional Integration in Asia and Latin America

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