Galeotti: 18 books

The geography of Russia -- vast, unwieldy, exposed -- and her tragic history of foreign invasion have created an overriding sense of military vulnerability amongst her leaders that, after the horrors of the Second World War, amounted almost to paranoia. This important study of the years since Brezhnev...

This book cuts through the misunderstandings about Russia’s geopolitical challenge to the West, presenting this not as ‘hybrid war’ but ‘political war.’ Russia seeks to antagonise: its diplomats castigate Western ‘Russophobia’ and cultivate populist sentiment abroad, while its...

The purpose of this book is to formulate economic models of the advantages and costs of transparency in various areas of public sector activity and to assess what level of obfuscation in politics is rational. The chapters are arranged in four parts. Part 1 is concerned with the manifestations of transparency...

Nell'antichità l'aborto era fondamentalmente una questione di donne, così come lo erano la gravidanza e il parto. Date le scarse conoscenze mediche, il feto era considerato una sorta di appendice del corpo della madre, la sola del resto che poteva testimoniare di essere incinta. Così, nel mondo greco-romano...