Academic literature on the topic 'Commanderie de Carlat'

The paper analyzes geo-historical, topographical and perceptive issues of the travel diary by Carla Novellis di Coarazze (1865-?), née Dreyfus, of Hungarian origin, in China from November 1906 to January 1907 together with her husband, Italian Baron Carlo Maria Novellis di Coarazze (1855-1916), commander on board of the cruiser Marco Polo of the Italian Royal Navy. This travelogue, still unpublished, is now conserved in the Italian National Diary Archive, based in Pieve Santo Stefano (Province of Arezzo). In the framework of her Chinese stay, Carla Novellis describes mostly the quasi-colonial environment of the ‘Old Shanghai’ at the beginning of the 20th century, but also Suzhou and Guangzhou. The paper georeferences and discusses places of the above mentioned cities, quoted by Novellis in her diary.

This book offers an alarming inside look at the security preparations of the cruise industry and the potential for cruise ships to be the target for pirates, terrorists, and criminal activity. Cruising for Trouble exposes the acute vulnerability of cruise ships to piracy, terrorism, and crime, both on the high seas and in domestic and foreign ports-of-call. While cruise ships have ramped up in size and passenger capacity to become floating skyscrapers housing as many as 7,000 passengers, and while piracy incidents have increased since 2008 as the world economy has deteriorated, there has been no corresponding increase or enhancement in onboard security personnel, external tactical units, preventive screening, or coordinated response planning to guard against the growing threat of acts of piracy and internal and external terrorist attacks. Commander Gaouette reveals to cruise passengers the very real security dangers they unwittingly face when they saunter up the gangway of a cruise ship for a carefree holiday. He sounds a clarion call to national and transnational security agencies, maritime regulators, legislators, and customers to compel the cruise industry to strengthen and reform its security programs before catastrophe strikes. The author, a longtime cruise industry insider who now serves as a top maritime security official in the Department of Homeland Security, details the many security defects and vulnerabilities of cruise ships, identifies the remedies, and makes the case for their urgent implementation. Extensively documented and illustrated, Cruising for Trouble is a vividly told cautionary for the ten million Americans who taken cruise-ship vacations each year and the millions more who would like to. As well as modeling the potential threats to cruise ships from pirates and maritime terrorists—who mimic each other's methods, overlap each other's territories, and might well find it mutually beneficial to combine their forces and resources—Commander Gaoutte recounts many actual examples of cruise-ship insecurity that have been swept under the carpet or spun by the cruise industry: pirate attacks, fires, onboard crime, mass food poisonings and infections, and the mysterious disappearances of cruise-ship passengers.

Gerson Arias and Carlos Prieto’s Chapter 7 delves into a particular story of collaboration about José Miguel Narváez, an adviser and instructor for the Colombian military. For at least 10 years, instead of coordinating the disbanding of paramilitary groups, Narváez served as a go-between for paramilitary commanders, and subsequently became a paramilitary adviser and an active collaborator from within the state itself. Through this study of Narváez, the chapter explores how collaborators should be defined, the context in which they emerge, their incentives and motivations, the different dimensions of collaboration, and its correlation with a lack of trust in institutions. The chapter reveals specific facets about his collaboration with paramilitary groups. It also notes two striking aspects of Narváez’s collaboration: it was difficult to distinguish whether he was directly part of the organisation or a collaborator, and his contributions were not always beneficial or strategic for the armed organisation; they could in fact be detrimental. This type of collaboration was a way for Narváez to ‘create the need’ for his work and to guide the behaviour of the paramilitary organisation. All of these considerations paint a complex picture of collaboration in the Colombian armed conflict.