This article is the polemical response to report of Yu.D. Granin “Island Russia” by Vadim Tsymbursky and geopolitical project Greater Eurasia” within frame­work round table “Problems civilizations in books Institute Philo­sophy Russian Academy Sciences”. The purpose work indicate po­sitions author concept “Islands relation a few modern geopol­itical problems. tasks set text can be defined as 1)...

The concept of Expeditionary Economics (ExpECON) was introduced in 2010 in a path-breaking article in the May/June 2010 issue of Foreign Affairs, “Expeditionary Economics: Spurring Growth After Conflicts and Disasters”, by then Kauffman Institute President and CEO Carl Schramm. In that article, Schramm put forth the proposition that economic growth is vital for stabilizing post-conflict/disaste...

Nowadays, a noticeable part of the relations among the states turn around the environment protection. Therefore, the right for ever-creasing use of the existing resources of this inland sea cannot be exclusive to any Caspian State and the aftermath involves all countries of this basin. In this respect, agreement on political border and boundaries with the Caspian Sea?s ecosystem is a difficul...

Bringing together literatures on play, (video) games, and alter(native) geopolitics this paper explores how digital games offer playful encounters that challenge popular understandings of geopolitics. While geographical scholarship has exposed the ways video promote geopolitical militaristic cultures, concentrates disruptive qualities play. More specifically, focuses This War Mine (2014), a gam...