A5102807905- Military History and Strategy
- Soviet and Russian History
- European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies
- Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
- Intelligence, Security, War Strategy
- Eastern European Communism and Reforms
- Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics
- Russia and Soviet political economy
- International Relations and Foreign Policy
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Japanese History and Culture
- Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
- European history and politics
- Chinese history and philosophy
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Anarchism and Radical Politics
- Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
- European Political History Analysis
- Political Economy and Marxism
- Eurasian Exchange Networks
- Economic Theory and Policy
- Conferences and Exhibitions Management
- Neurology and Historical Studies
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- Polish Historical and Cultural Studies
University of Cambridge
2025
University of Zurich
2025
University of Bristol
2025
Imperial College London
2025
Tharawal Aboriginal
2024
University of Glasgow
2008-2023
University of the Humanities
2023
Society for Neuroscience
2022
Regional Plan Association
2014
King's College London
2006-2008
Introduction: The Sex of Cities Chapter 1: A Tale Two Towns: Kissimmee versus Celebration and the New Urbanism 2: End Place 3: Deconstructed City: Silicon Valley 4: Trading Places: City Suburb 5: Jackson Heights: An Anachronism Finds Its Way 6: Master Hand: Role Government in Building 7: Portland Oregon: Taming Forces That Create Modern Metropolitan Area 8: No Called Home: Community at Millennium 9: Conclusion. Getting There: Healthy Acknowledgments Notes Selected References Index
The use of surrogate or ‘proxy’ actors within the context ‘irregular’ guerrilla conflict between states constitutes a phenomenon spanning nearly whole recorded human military history. Yet it is that has also acquired urgent contemporary relevance in light general evolution Ukraine and current Middle East. This introduction to special issue on theme investigates some potentially important new avenues studying these trends.
Experimental measurements of 𝑏-hadron decays encounter a broad spectrum backgrounds due to the numerous possible decay channels with similar final states. Additionally, computational constraints limit number simulations most significant backgrounds. Identifying leading requires careful analysis state particles, potential misidentifications and kinematic overlaps. This talk introduces an innovative approach utilising machine learning determine critical impacting decays.
Since 9/11, counterinsurgency is back in fashion; the 'war on terror' has even been branded a 'global counterinsurgency'. However context within which originally arose critical to understanding prospects for its present success; radically changed environment it currently being conducted casts into considerable doubt validity of doctrine's application by many national militaries 'rediscovering' this school military thought today. Above all, classical was profoundly imperial, state-centric...
The ‘great turn’ in new studies of Western counter-insurgency policies and practices first inaugurated by the US troop surge to Iraq 2007, accompanied as it was at time publication of...
Robert Service: Trotsky. A Biography. London, Macmillan, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-4050-5346-4 In this mammoth 600-page tome Service has attempted to write what he no doubt hopes will be a definitive...
Connection to culture in Australian First Peoples children is an important social determinant of health child development and wellbeing. The current study draws upon the collective knowledge Elders community leaders collaboratively develop first theoretical conceptualisation connection children. Through participatory action research, we integrated both Western Indigenist methodologies. One-on-one qualitative narrative interviews were conducted with six leaders. Their was summarised through a...
Perhaps surprisingly, given the availability of new Russian memoir material, some excellent individual monographs, and a large variety declassified documents, full operational–political account Soviet Union's withdrawal strategy from Afghanistan has yet to be written. This article, utilising openly published neglected sources, attempts fill that gap. The final fate Najibullah regime, contradictory effect National Reconciliation Policy in itself, suggests four key lessons for international...
The role of military intelligence in the First World War has been relatively neglected compared with revelations that have wholly altered historiography Second since 1970s. Russian first conflict particular an enigma for many decades, because difficulty archival access. Now, however, a new generation Russian, European and American scholars are uncovering War, series fresh discoveries combined reprint previously rare biographical material allows one to reach more informed conclusions both on...
Bitter choices: loyalty and betrayal in the Russian conquest of North Caucasus, by Michael Khodarkovsky, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2011, xiii + 200 pp., £21.50, ISBN 9780801449727 The R...
The career of the Soviet statesman and leading ideologue Mikhail Andreevich Suslov (1902–1982) remains relatively understudied, a lacunae which forthcoming archive-based biography seeks to correct. Amongst many neglected aspects his career, role in Lithuania between 1944 1946 has received little scholarly attention, beyond repeating popular dissident accounts malign as an oppressor. This essay revises this account, revealing both unique contribution local counterinsurgency, perhaps...