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Benjamin Robins's New Principles of Gunnery and the Response From the British Mathematical, Educational, and Military World of the Mid‐Eighteenth Century

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses to what degree Benjamin Robins's discoveries in his book New Principles of Gunnery, 1742, affected the British mathematical, military, and educational world of the mid‐eighteenth century. While it drew praise and critique from Europe, especially from the notable mathematician Leonhard Euler, his mathematical theories were
Samuel Dodson
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Adaptation of Competency-based Elements of Professional Training for Police Officers to the Challenges of Martial Law

Bulletin of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs
The military threats caused by the Russian Federation’s armed aggression against Ukraine have affected all aspects of police work, including the State Educational Standard for the profession of “Police Officer (by specialisation)”.
O. S. Skliar
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Deterrence Through Resilience and Civil Preparedness: The Comprehensive and Militarised Models of Civil Defence

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As hybrid threats blur the line between war and peace and challenge conventional deterrence logics, states increasingly turn to concepts of resilience, civil preparedness and whole‐of‐society as elements of their security strategies. This raises the question of how civilian agency can be viewed as an element of deterrence and what the ...
Agata Mazurkiewicz, Heljä Ossa
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Dilemmas of Civilian Participation in Military Deterrence and Defence: Legal and Ethical Dimensions

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How can civilians participate in deterrence and defence in ways that do not jeopardize their immunity from deliberate attack? The principle of civilian immunity from deliberate attack in war is a core element of contemporary international humanitarian law (IHL). Uniformed combatants and others who take up arms pose a threat may be liable to be
Neta C. Crawford
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Carney's Davos Address and the (Contested) Re‐Imagining of Middle Powers

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT By privileging the intervention of Canada's prime minister, Mark Carney, in his January 2026 Davos address, the work aims to re‐engage with the debate around middle powers extending from academic scrutiny to instrumental practice. On core themes, Carney's address provides exceptional focal points pertaining to the role of this category of ...
Andrew F. Cooper
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Letter, Thomas Law to John Law, 1804 September 4

Thomas Law writes to his son John Law discussing his separation from wife Eliza Parke Custis Law, includes the Latin phrase -' quicquid corrigere est nefas levius fit patientia'; encourages John to take an oath of allegiance to America; dismayed by the ...
Law, Thomas, 1756-1834
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Before the budget: Parliamentary appropriations and the limits of government spending in colonial New South Wales, 1787–1832

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract How did a British colony, not supplied with coin and with no tax base, establish itself a world away from London? Drawing on the Historical Records of Australia and British parliamentary Appropriation Acts from 1787 to 1832, this paper shows that Phillip, the first Governor of New South Wales, spent by issuing promises to pay against the ...
Matthew Crocker
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A theory of political divergence and gradual institutional change

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Why do some societies succeed in breaking away from historical traditions while others remain trapped? This paper proposes a formal theory to investigate the interaction between short‐run and long‐run political dynamics, highlighting a co‐evolution of political institutions and social structures.
Clair Yang
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Land, Gendered Labor, and Empire‐Making in Central Sudan

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers an ethnographic analysis of Gulf Arab empire‐making in central Sudan, focusing on an Emirati‐owned farm in the Gezira region as a key site of capitalist extraction and imperial ambition. Through three overlapping vantage points—farm, port, and body—it explores how Emirati investments in Sudanese land, infrastructure, and ...
Nisrin Elamin
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Letter, John Law to Thomas Law, 1817 April 5

John Law writes of his disappointment to his father Thomas Law regarding the marriage of his half-sister Elizabeth "Rosebud" Law to Nicholas Lloyd Rogers of which he (John) and his brother Edmund were not invited to attend.
Law, John, 1784?-1822
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