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Free Download Nurlan Aliyev, "Reassessing Russia’s Security Policy "
English | ISBN: 1032382961 | 2023 | 298 pages | EPUB, PDF | 677 KB + 22 MB
This book provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of Russia’s security policy. Based on extensive original research, including an analysis of official documents, political and military elite speeches, interviews, and reports, and considering the subject from the early 20th century onward, the book evaluates how far Russia’s security policy is underpinned by "strategic asymmetry"―the acceptance by Russia of its inferior military position, and the pursuit of its strategic aims through the application of a variety of methods, military and non-military, including the manipulation of public opinion, the use of economic leverage, and external security approaches―known as Russia’s "hybrid war operations"―to gain the advantage over a militarily and economically superior adversary. The book discusses how Russia’s security policy has been and is being applied in specific cases, including the present war in Ukraine, the Russian anti-satellite program, and Russia’s contemporary Afghan policy. The aim of the book is to explain how and why Russia uses different security strategies and methods using these three cases.

Free Download Ruth Noyes, "Reassessing Epistemic Images in the Early Modern World "
English | ISBN: 9463723358 | 2022 | 324 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This edited collection of papers explores from an interdisciplinary perspective the role of images and objects in early modern knowledge-making practices with an emphasis on mapping methodological approaches against printed pictures and things. The volume brings together work across diverse printed images, objects, and materials produced c. 1500-1700, as well as well as works in the ambit of early modern print culture, to reframe a comparative history of the rise of the ‘epistemic imprint’ as a new visual genre at the onset of the scientific revolution. The book includes contributions from the perspective of international scholars and museum professionals drawing on methodologies from a range of fields.

Free Download Reconstruction beyond 150: Reassessing the New Birth of Freedom (A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era) by Orville Vernon Burton, J. Brent Morris
English | August 21, 2023 | ISBN: 0813949866 | 314 pages | PDF | 4.36 Mb
No period of United States history is more important and still less understood than Reconstruction. Now, at the sesquicentennial of the Reconstruction era, Vernon Burton and Brent Morris bring together the best new scholarship on the critical years after the Civil War and before the onset of Jim Crow, synthesizing social, political, economic, and cultural approaches to understanding this crucial period.

Free Download Colin Jones, "Reassessing Foucault: Power, Medicine and the Body"
English | 2001 | pages: 237 | ISBN: 0415075424, 0415183413 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers in a wide range of areas in the social and human sciences.