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Cover -- Contents -- Series Editor Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 About Corruption -- 2 The United States: In Search of the Perfect Law -- 3 White Corruption in Israel -- 4 Russia and Her Ghosts of the Past -- 5 India: Between Majesty and Modernity -- 6 Corruption in Four Countries -- About the Authors -- Index.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine was based on false premises, faulty assumptions, and a weak strategy. The conduct of operations has also been a failure: a coup de main that miscarried, poor air-land cooperation, inadequate tactical communications, substandard battle discipline, low morale, and vulnerable and weak logistics. As the conflict has unfolded, heavy losses have imposed a strain on available Russian manpower. The Russian army reached a culminating point outside Kyiv and has exhibited little sign of operational learning. By contrast Ukrainians have fought an existential war, making good use of dispersed light infantry tactics with high levels of motivation. Their deficiencies in armaments and munitions have been compensated by Western support. However, the political context continues to impose limitations on the Ukrainians, and, at this early stage of the conflict, the number of options remains constrained.

The historiography of the First World War in the Middle East has changed over the last two decades, and while some established works stand the test of time, there are new works to consider. This article is designed to assist scholars seeking to trace the contours of recent publications, illustrating the variety of themes and subjects that surround that conflict. Military history is by no means the sole issue of interest, and readers will be struck by the range of works on culture, ethnic and sectarian groups, propaganda, diplomatic history, and medicine, among others. The centenary of the First World War has produced its own crop of studies, but the Middle East continues to attract significant interest and tragically recent conflicts inevitably raise questions about the origins and impact of that war in 1914–1918.

In this chapter, Johnson analyses the processes and calculations that led to the British withdrawal from India and Pakistan in 1947–48. This was not simply a case of the British being driven out, but rather a combination of unrest in India and new priorities for the British at home, set against an exceptionally short timeline for transition. The deteriorating security situation illustrated the limitations of force, but also the inadequacy of the new administrations to agree on a political settlement. These left Britain with responsibilities it no longer had the power to discharge. Maintaining a good relationship with the successor governments was prioritized over former efforts to transfer power gradually. The war had transformed India dramatically, but transition, including the break-up of the security forces, took place amid shocking communal violence.

Although Pakistan's surface irrigation development has a long history, it is only about 30 years ago that the development of groundwater resources was begun. During the past decade, government policy has been reoriented towards private, instead of public, tube well development in fresh groundwater areas. This paper examines the policies that have effected tube well development, and reviews past literature on the subject.

IN THE PAST, NEW ZEALAND HAS BEEN PREPARED TO GO ALONG WITH THE INTERESTS OF ITS MAJOR ALLIES. BUT INCREASINGLY IT HAS BECOME CLEAR THAT THE INTERESTS OF A SMALL ISOLATED ISLAND NATION AND THOSE OF THE LARGE INDUSTRALIZED WESTERN NATIONS WILL NOT ALWAYS COINCIDE. NEW ZEALAND HAS THEREFORE BEEN, AND WILL INCREASINGLY BE, FORCED TO SPEAK OUT ON ITS OWN BEHALF.