.... A decade-long crisis set off by events in Uzbekistan will then produce a Sino-centric international system with diminished Russian influence in Central Asia. Faced with combined Chinese and Islamist militancy in the region, Russia will abandon its revisionist ... ... 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 ...
Causes for concern for the Russian political elite
Central Asia is presently a vital area for world politics. The 9/11 acts of terror in New York and Washington ... ... players. How might national borders in the region change in one hundred years?
Mobile Borders in Central Asia
Contemplating future borders in Central Asia is not an easy task: for one thing, the external boundaries of this region, vis-à-vis the ...
... of the space programs of the two superpowers.
Post-Lunar Prospects
In the USSR and USA, the end of the moon race triggered off the discussion on the prospects of space... ... the first half of the 1970ies, a big amount of analytical surveys and reports on the future of space exploration appeared. The conclusions of Soviet and American scientists... ... recognized technologically unfeasible. Mathematical calculations by K. E. Tsialkovsky, the Russian scientist of the XIX century, were used for the design of modern spacecrafts;...
