For many years there was little discussion of or activity to develop new energetic materials for military applications. However, since the end of the Cold War there have been significant new activities in such materials. Particularly in the last 10 years, a number of new synthesized energetic materials have been reported and generated much discussion. Some of the most interesting newly develope...

after the cold war and collapse of the bipolar system, the european :union: found more opportunity to play a role in regional and international arenas. on the other hand, russia was searching for a new status due to its widespread developments. changing the status of international system, emergence of new and powerful actors, expansion of the european :union: to the east and bordering with russ...

Look around. No “good old-fashioned war” is in sight. There are a few possibilities—for example, on the Korean peninsula; or between China and Taiwan; or India and Pakistan; and, as usual, in the Middle East—but these do not seem imminent. Moreover, the most recent war, the Gulf War of 1990–1991, reflected the advent of the “revolution in military affairs” among U.S. forces and thus was more ne...

Instructional technology, and the cognitivist and systems paradigms that underpin it, grew out of the military-industrial complex during the Cold War. Much as the Pentagon and this military complex defined the architecture of the Internet, they also essentially created, ex nihilo, the fields of instructional technology and instructional design. The results of the ongoing dominance or influence ...

This paper discusses the enduring forces driving the global diffusion of military capability, whether during the cold war or other historical periods, and then considers the competitive dynamics characteristic of the superpower rivalry itself. I argue that the working of the so-called technological imperative along with loosely coupled action-reaction dynamics lead us to expect certain patterns...

geopolitical imagination, by definition, is the competition between powers in forming individuals’, institutions’ and political factors’ perception of the characteristics and contents of geographical space, on the basis of their intended interests. in this article, as a case study, the us perception of the :union: of soviet socialist republics during the cold war era is analysed. the authors ar...