The Kosovo war of 1999 brought the checkered legacies of Russian and Western geopolitics back to the forefront of international relations. Central to the discussions of the Balkans is its century-old legacy as a Shatterbelt or Crush Zone. Though not identified by Saul Cohen as a Shatterbelt during the Cold War, the region is now located where the maritime (Western) and land power (Russian) geos...

I)rawing on recent research in the Horn ofAfrica, emer€dng patterns of managing forced migration in the post-Cold Mrar landscape are identified and ana\'2e6. 1,1,n,t" .amps continue to house refugees, tbe rneaning and value of'rcfugee' have changed drarnatically since the Cold War. Efforts to prevent people frorn crossing political borders to seek safety are increasing, gir.ing rise to a new se...

In contrast to the previous optimistic forecasts of ruling elite in late USSR and new Russia about how our country's relations with West will develop positively after collapse Soviet Union socialist system Eastern Europe, Russia's successful entry into Western community; triumphalist sentiments itself regarding "collapse communism", victory cold war role Russia, which has lost its as a superpow...

Intensive research and development during the Second World War had resulted in new technologies uch as radar, the proximity fuse, and the atomic bomb, all of which contributed to the Allied victory. The Cold War marked a new era in government funding for research and development, however, as new geopolitical pressures convinced military and civilian policymakers to maintain R&D expenditures ata...

The article deals with the problems of political and economic processes in Kazakhstan since independence in the context of globalization. It analyzes the geopolitical situation and selfpositioning processes in the world after the end of the "cold war". It examines the problems of internal economization of the Republic for 20 years of independence. The authors argue that the reforms proceeded in...

The crises of the European Union and geopolitical shifts in its international environment have generated a backlash against post-Cold War ‘debordering’ integration. Whereas inte...

This paper explores a vacant spot in the Cold War history of science: the development of research activities in the physical environmental sciences and in nuclear science and technology in Greenland. In the post-war period, scientific exploration of the polar areas became a strategically important element in American and Soviet defence policy. Particularly geophysical fields like meteorology, g...