As researchers for the Defence Research and Development Canada, attending field trials, military exercises and operations for data collection purposes is a common and exciting part of the job. Over the past few years while conducting research during Arctic operations (Figure 1) we have experienced the challenges of trying to conduct basics tasks outside in the extreme cold. As civilian scientis...

emergence of new geopolitical affairs in the important and sensitive places of the world, like the middle east, balkan, central asia (caucasus zone) and… has caused emergence of a new trend of so called cold war with variables like the expansion of nato to the east, the u.s. missile defense shield, georgia’s events, the prevalent problems of the middle east, those of pakistan and afghanistan, o...

The historic Cold War, although formally concluded by 1991, continues to widely and deeply influence, even shape the contours of, way we think talk about geopolitics geoeconomics in present time. Foreign policy professionals, journalists, scholars, producers consumers of popular culture readily turn tropes, frames, mental models derived sometimes very literally from this grand-historic episode....

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