The Middle East in the shadow of the Islamic State. OSW Point of View Number 52, August 2015

Since June 2014, Islamic State (IS) has been regarded as the principal security threat in the Middle East and one of the most important problems for European and global security. Islamic State, which for many years was just one of many terror organisations with links to al-Qaeda, has succeeded in achieving much more than other similar organisations: it has taken over control of large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq by military means, created its own para-state structures in that area, and become the greatest civilisational challenge for the region in a century as it established a self-proclaimed caliphate and credibly pledged to expand further on a global scale. Those successes have been accompanied by widely publicised acts of systemic brutality which meets the definition of crimes against humanity. One outcome of these developments is the emergence of an exotic informal alliance to combatthe Islamic State, which has brought together all the states from the Middle East and many from beyond the region. However, contrary to what could have been predicted, after almost a year of the declared war against IS, the Caliphate still holds most of the ground it gained in 2014.

Russophobia in the Kremlin’s strategy. A weapon of mass destruction. OSW POINT OF VIEW #56, 2015-11-02

Building up an image of Russophobic countries is currently instrumental in shaping a neo-imperial political identity among the citizens of the Russian Federation, mobilising them in the face of real or alleged threats, and also serves as a form of restoring psychological comfort to them in the face of the failure of the Kremlin’s actions (as in Ukraine, for example). The mythologised stereotype of Russophobic countries also remains a crowning argument and a simple explanation for the ongoing tensions in relations between Russia and the West.

Rate of heat-transfer near the stagnation point of a blunt body of revolution, in the presence of a magnetic field.

"Prepared for the Air Force Ballistic Missile Division, Headquarters Air Research and Development Command, under contract AF04(647)-127, call no. 4."

Report of the committee appointed at a general meeting of the wine trade, held at the commercial sale rooms , Mincing Lane, London, on Tuesday, 26th July, 1842, to take into consideration the measures to be adopted in consequence of the reduction in the duties upon wine, expected to take place, on the conclusion of commercial treaty with Portugal /

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List of government publications in irrigation for sale by the Superintendent of Documents ...

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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 /

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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.

On the maximum and minimum values of a linear function of the radial co-ordinates of a point with respect to simplicissimum in space of n dimensions.

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The case stated of the jurisdiction of the House of Lords in the point of impositions.

Wing no. H2453.

The case stated concerning the judicature of the House of Peers in the point of appeals.

Wing H-2452.

A complete view of Baltimore, with a statistical sketch, of all the commercial, mercantile, manufacturing, literary, scientific, and religious institutions and establishments, in the same, and in its vicinity ... derived from personal observation and research ... To which is added, a detailed statement of an excursion on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road to the Point of Rocks ... and an advertising directory.

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Speech of the Hon. John White, of Kentucky, in defence of Mr. Clay, upon the charge of "bargain and sale" /

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Price discrimination. Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on the judiciary, United States Senate, Seventy-fourth Congress, second session, on S. 4171, a bill making it unlawful for any person engaged in commerce to discriminate in price or terms of sale between purchasers of commodities of like grade, quality, and quantity, and for other purposes.

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Tirosh lo Yayin : or, The wine question considered in an entirely novel point of view ; with a scheme of Hebrew wines, and illustrations (philosophical and critical) of the principle passages of the Bible connected with the subject.

Includes index.

The use of lead compounds in pottery, from the potter's point of view.

Published "by request of the Joint Committee of the Allied Manufacturers' Associations of Great Britain."