... teaching jobs. Education functions through a symbolic brand market, so without branding and active rebranding, the virtual education system can only represent a marginal addition to the real world.
Time will be the scarcest resource for educators in the future.
What are the key issues in the future? Challenges include navigating and accessing expanding resources, developing optimal strategies, mastering educational courses, and creating search engines for identifying solutions.
Time will be the scarcest ...
Terrorism in 100 Years
In the 2000s, fighting global terrorism has become a key area for international cooperation. Although the achievements of international world community in this area are tangible, the threat still looms over both individual nation-states and the entire international system. Moreover, in the next 100 years, the menace of terrorism is likely to increase scope and level of violence.
Terrorism in the 20th Century: from National to Worldwide
Over the past decade, terrorism has...
... institutions for the establishment and development of extensive contacts within multilateral diplomacy, help fill current gaps in unduly bureaucratized international politics.
The State and the Self-Organization of Society
When speculating about the future, many thinkers assumed that the state would die out. Marxists wrote about its demise under communism due to the self-organization of society. Radical liberals believed that the absolute primacy of economic relations would sweep away national borders ...
Speaking before the Committee for the Future of the Finnish Parliament and its Chairman Päivi Lipponen, who is heading it since 2011, RIAC Program Director covered certain trends of Russia’s development, their influence on the country’s future and relations with key international ...
... growth of terrorism, migration and the onset of the financial crisis of 2008-2010. Identity is again becoming attractive and acquiring the status of an underlying principle of existence and development. However, its typical feature today and in the future is not stable self-identity, but, rather, a multitude of definitions that a human uses for self-identification in the heterogeneous world. And that is where governance can no longer be based on pre-determined and pre-formalized methods. Governance ...
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The change in significance of these GG mechanisms and in the composition of participating actors will affect the most important trends, and the continuation, development, or termination of the latter will be of key importance for the future evolution of GG mechanisms.
The first trend is the
fundamental strengthening of mixed GG mechanisms
. This trend has three main manifestations.
First, since the mid-1990s, the involvement of non-state actors in the work of formal GG mechanisms ...
... movement of people, goods and services were not constrained by national borders. However, there are many indications that shifts in this direction will not be long in coming. The position of visas and border controls will to a great extent hinge on the future of the nation state.
Opinions differ regarding the latter
, but current developments already suggest that with time the sovereignty of individual states will inevitably be restricted.
This transformation no means implies the demise of the traditional ...
... other countries with arid climates, with all their available and extracted resources, use less than 300 m³ per capita, whereas Brazil, Canada and Russia have ten thousand and more cubic meters of water per capita. The assumption is that in the future, this uneven distribution of water will only get worse. Take the example of Russia: 60 per cent of its water resources are concentrated in Siberia, with its few local industries, whereas the southern regions, in particular Krasnodar, Stavropol,...
... For convenience let us choose the year 2057, with the understanding that this is an approximate date. (However, the date 2079 is purely heuristic for the present analytical exercise, and not necessarily significant from the standpoint of periodizing future international systems.)
In the history of international affairs, international orders are not constituted by a single international system; rather, they span two or more international systems. Therefore, the post-2057 international system will ...
... in the 21st century the region will undergo changes unique in their magnitude.
There may be no comparison even with the transformations that the region underwent during the 20th century. In terms of their scale and complexity, these changes in the future deserve to be called the Great Transformation. They encompass a whole set of social, economic and political changes whose elements we shall discuss below.
End of the Demographic Explosion
Central Asia's largest cities
Population growth in Central ...
