Bøger af Thomas Christiansen

Bogen skildrer en dybdegående fortælling om en tidligere elitesoldats bemærkelsesværdige rejse fra hans beslutning om at blive Navy SEAL i 2001 til den dramatiske afslutning på hans militære karriere efter den sidste kamp i Afghanistan.Historien begynder med hovedpersonens afgang fra Danmark til USA, hvor han begynder sin uddannelse som Navy SEAL. Gennem levende beskrivelser får læseren indblik i den intense fysiske og mentale træning, hvoraf nogle øjeblikke er præget af tvivl, men også en stærk beslutsomhed om at ære sin far og sig selv.Efter gennemført træning bliver hovedpersonen en del af Tropa 9, en hemmelig enhed underlagt forsvarets efterretningstjeneste. Bogen udforsker de hemmelige missioner, hvor enheden opererer i skyggen og udfører opgaver, der kræver stor præcision, diskretion og samarbejde.Fortællingen skifter mellem dramatiske begivenheder i konfliktzoner som Congo og Europa og mere introspektive øjeblikke, hvor hovedpersonen reflekterer over de fysiske og mentale udfordringer, han står overfor, samt de personlige ofre, krigen har medført.Bogens sidste kapitler beskriver den sidste kamp i Afghanistan, der markerer afslutningen på hovedpersonens mili

"Bogen dykker ned i en verden af hemmelige operationer og topfortrolige missioner gennem hovedpersonens øjne. Historien starter hvor hovedpersonen forlader Danmark for at deltage i Navy SEALs uddannelse i USA. Han deler sine indre konflikter, ambitioner og nervøsitet, mens han forbereder sig på den ekstreme udfordring.Efter SEALs-uddannelsen følger hovedpersonen medlemmerne af Tropa 9, en hemmelig enhed under den danske efterretningstjeneste. Bogen tager læserne med på en række missioner, der strækker sig fra redning af civile i Congo til håndtering af farlige kemiske trusler i Europa. Hovedpersonen beskriver detaljeret træningen, taktikkerne og de intense øjeblikke, der udspiller sig under missionerne.Gennem bogen udfolder sig en kompleks fortælling om menneskelig styrke og sårbarhed, både fysisk og mentalt. Hovedpersonen beskriver de personlige udfordringer, han står over for, og den konstante kamp mellem at bevare sin egen integritet og opfylde de krav, der stilles til ham som medlem af en hemmelig enhed.Bogens atmosfære er præget af spænding, intriger og et konstant skift mellem skyggeverdenens hemmeligheder og den virkelige verden. Samtidig udforsker bogen

This wide-ranging book analyses EU-Asia security relations in a systematic, substantive and comparative manner. The contributions assess similarities and differences between the EU and its Asian partners with respect to levels of threat perception, policy response and security cooperation in the context of historical, institutional and external factors ¿ such as the influence of the United States. The book presents original empirical research organised in four parts: a number of contributions providing discussions of the global context in which EU-Asia security relations develop; a series of chapters covering the range of dimensions of EU-Asian security, including both traditional and non-military aspects of security; chapters addressing the specific issues touching on bilateral relations between the EU and its partners in the Asia-Pacific region; and a final part presenting the overall findings across the various contributions together with the future outlook for EU-Asia securityrelations.

They offer a broad empirical picture, analysing the challenges faced by national parliaments and the role and response of their administrations in the case of the European Parliament, national parliaments and regional parliaments.

This book represents a fresh look at cohesion, the point of departure being Halliday and Hasan's seminal Cohesion in English, which is examined in depth as are other notable approaches to cohesion such as Hoey's Patterns of Lexis in Text. It also compares different studies of relevance to cohesion from other areas of linguistics, such as: generative grammar, Functional Sentence Perspective (FSP), and corpus linguistics. In this way, this work extends discussion of cohesion beyond the realms of systemic linguistics to include a broader spectrum of approaches including research into languages other than English. The main focus, however, is on varieties of English and on general and specialised discourse types. Rather than limiting itself to the text as product, the manifestation of a discourse, this book looks at cohesion from the wider perspective of discourse, seen as an interactive process. Consequently, different sociolinguistic and cultural factors are also taken into consideration: How far is cohesion a constitutive feature of text? What is the precise link between cohesion and coherence? What specific role does discourse have in phenomena such as anaphora? Do such things as cohesive universals exist across languages? How far do socio-cultural, or discourse-specific, conventions contribute to the type and degree of cohesion present in a text?

Enlargement and treaty reform have moved Europe's constitutional debate into the political spotlight. This important new text outlines the main themes of constitutional debate in the EU, analyzes formal and informal constitution-building since the early days of European integration, and introduces the actors and structures behind treaty change.