Late Putin. The end of growth, the end of stability. OSW POINT OF VIEW #55, 2015-10-05

Since Vladimir Putin returned to the Kremlin as President in May 2012, the Russian system of power has become increasingly authoritarian, and has evolved towards a model of extremely personalised rule that derives its legitimacy from aggressive decisions in internal and foreign policy, escalates the use of force, and interferes increasingly assertively in the spheres of politics, history, ideology or even public morals. Putin’s power now rests on charismatic legitimacy to a much greater extent than it did during his first two presidential terms; currently the President is presented not only as an effective leader, but also as the sole guarantor of Russia’s stability and integrity. After 15 years of Putin’s rule, Russia’s economic model based on revenue from energy resources has exhausted its potential, and the country has no new model that could ensure continued growth for the economy. The Putinist system of power is starting to show symptoms of agony – it has been unable to generate new development projects, and has been compensating for its ongoing degradation by escalating repression and the use of force. However, this is not equivalent to its imminent collapse.

Georgian drift. The crisis of Georgia's way westwards. OSW POINT OF VIEW 57, 2016-02-22

For several years Georgia has been experiencing processes which may be interpreted as symptoms of a deepening, multidimensional social and political crisis. Reforms have lost momentum, stagnation has set in, and in some areas the situation has begun to revert to the pre-revolution status (including rising crime levels). The Georgian political system has found itself in a serious crisis, while society has become increasingly frustrated and apathetic, mainly because people’s standards of living have been stagnating. This political and social malaise has been breeding Euro-scepticism and disenchantment with the West. A country that had been firmly navigating westwards, Georgia has now started drifting and slipping into malaise. This risks reversing what the country has achieved so far in the internal dimension, increasing instability and triggering a crisis in the pro-Western vector of Tbilisi’s foreign policy. While that may not necessarily mean a turn towards Russia, in the present situation it has been easier for Moscow to pursue its own interests in the region. Should Tbilisi’s pro-Western course become reversed or permanently stagnant, that would entail grave consequences for the country itself and beyond. It would be a defeat for the West and would undermine the European aspirations of countries like Ukraine or Moldova.

The nations from a new point of view /

Mode of access: Internet.

The power and influence of music considered from a psycho-physiological point of view /

Includes bibliographical references.

Dorian and Phrygian reconsidered from a non-harmonic point of view /

Corrected in author's ms.

Subcompact vehicle energy absorbing column evaluation and improvement. Volume II: analysis of accident data, statistician/analyst's point of view. Interim report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Subcompact vehicle energy absorbing column evaluation and improvement. Volume I: analysis of accident data, engineer's point of view. Interim report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

The labour day. Protection and free trade from the workman's point of view.

Mode of access: Internet.

The siege of London ; The Pension Beaurepas and The point of view /

Mode of access: Internet.

Life insurance and annuities from the buyer's point of view,

Originally published in 1935 and 1938 under title: Insurance and annuities from the buyer's point of view.

A treatise on the puerperal fever : wherein the nature and cause of that disease, so fatal to lying-in women, are represented in a new point of view illustrated by dissections; and a rational method of cure proposed, confirmed by experience /

Mode of access: Internet.

The English moralities from the point of view of allegory.

Originally presented as the author's thesis, Harvard.

The basilica of S. Mark in Venice illustrated from the point of view of art and history /

Appendix: Actual state of the basilica - 1895, p.[958]-960.

The Polish question : from an English point of view.

Mode of access: Internet.