this study attempts to explore the development and evolution of mackinder's geopolitical thinking in global politics of british empire and its influence thereafter. this research paper examines the characteristics of geopolitical perspective of britain, through halford mackinder's heartland theory during the three periods of the early twentieth century to the present time. in this reg...

Proper scoring rules can be used to incentivize a forecaster to truthfully report her private beliefs about the probabilities of future events and to evaluate the relative accuracy of forecasters. While standard scoring rules can score forecasts only once the associated events have been resolved, many applications would benefit from instant access to proper scores. In forecast aggregation, for ...


 There are clear signs that the balance of power in globe is shifting. The USA, an established superpower, and China, a developing vying for world's attention. Eventually, Russia showing strength to establish herself as one other axis powers transform global order from unipolar multipolar. India, Nepal's immediate neighbor with open border decades-old, strong bilateral links, also evolvin...

The south Caucasus and Central Asia will be of growing geopolitical significance to the West and NATO over the next 10–15 years because of their potential contribution to global energy supplies and energy security and the risk that conflict and instability could spread beyond the region, invite foreign military intervention, provoke a resurgence of Russian neo-imperialism, redefine the territor...

caspian region is on the receiver of caspian sea with five coastal states including of iran, russia, azerbaijan, turkmenistan and kazakhstan - in the surrounding sea, due to having common points in the features of natural geography, special location, political and cultural and historical background, is known as a geopolitical region. following the collapse of the soviet ::::union::::, due to ch...