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...

We investigate different models for detecting and classifying important geopolitical events in high-frequency spatiotemporal network data. Building on previous empirical work on the network response to real-world events, our goal is to develop a generative model that can identify the time, location, and nature of different emergency and non-emergency events. As a testbed for these models, we us...

The purpose of this article is to reexamine the ontology of geopolitical boundaries so that they can be better represented in ontologies designed for the semantic web. Previous work on this subject has divided geopolitical boundaries into fiat, bona fide, and force dynamic categories. This article challenges the existence of bona fide geopolitical boundaries on the basis that many of them lie s...

The Planet’s Pivot Area in Mackinder’s Theory The geopolitical situation of the early 21st century gave a new boost to studies of the regional structuralization principles for the geopolitical and geo-economic space of the entire Eurasian continent. This revived the conceptions formulated by Halford Mackinder in the early 20th century and his opponent, Nicholas Spykman, somewhat later. They off...

A disciplinary profile of a country is defined as the versor whose components are number papers produced in given discipline divided by overall production country. Starting from Essential Science Indicators (ESI) schema classification subject areas, we obtained yearly profiles worldwide graph, where on each node sits country, two time intervals 1988--1988 and 1992--2017, fall Berlin Wall being ...

Knowledge spillovers—non-rival information goods with the potential to be adapted by neighboring producers—have been the focus of a large body of empirical and theoretical economic research. However, the majority of existing work only examines two industries (academic and patent citation networks), and only focuses on estimating the effects of individual geopolitical units on knowledge spillove...