The aim of this article is to share our experiences from an international collaborative effort to study health outcomes among Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG) soldiers following the 1991 Gulf War. By paying particular attention to distinct social and religious customs, geopolitical differences, and unique aspects of the health care system, we achieved a successful international collaboration...

Research background: Geopolitical thought at the turn of 19th and 20th centuries was among first to accentuate a global dimension international politics. It stagnated in context WWII, however, adoption geopolitical approaches U.S. foreign policy concepts contributed its revival during Cold War rapid development 1990s because need address changes power-political spatial-political structures worl...

One of the possible scenarios in Asia-Pacific is a bipolar order two great powers, United States and China. In this situation, alliance commitments will likely remain fixed rather than flexible. This scenario also known as “a new kind cold war” because both actors have many social ideological differences that often be emphasized competition for geopolitical position. Three main questions are ad...

one of the main issues faced by the north atlantic treaty organization (nato) in the post-cold war period has been the continued existence of the organization and accommodating its goals and agenda with the new world conditions. nato in this relation has made utmost efforts within the past two decades and by making a kind of identity transformation in its functions and missions, not only did no...

One of the most serious challenges in international relations pertains to the theory and measurement of transformation and change. This paper proposes, and then develops a conceptual and methodological extension in the measurement of change within and across states as postulated by lateral pressure theory. It argues, and shows, that by conceptualizing the profiles of states identified by latera...

In War conditions in Syria (Important Recent Geopolitical Events), it’s very interesting to study the people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors influenced by these events and offal’s on peoples. For this, we compare the people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors before and after and in War conditions in Syria. Feelings and behaviors have been correlated with thoughts. Negative thoughts have be...

the us foreign policy processes in the middle east, in the post world war ii period, have always brought about security challenge, danger and crisis, in the region. all us presidents have experienced grave security crisis in this geopolitical area. there also exists many indications of distrust of the current foreign us policy exercised in the middle east on the part of middle eastern citizens....

Migration emerged as a security issue in a context marked both by the geopolitical dislocation associated with the end of the Cold War and also by wider social and political shifts associated with ‘globalization’. As such, current debates surrounding migration and security reflect changes both in the nature of migration, as well as in the nature of thinking about migration. While it was previou...