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....

The purpose of this study is to critically evaluate three scholarly perspectives -balance of power, institutional, and security complex -to examine the evolving dynamics of security interdependence and inter-state relations among Southeast Asian states and external powers since 1945. This study is thus a comparative evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the three methods in their empiri...

This paper empirically investigates the economic and political factors that affect a country’s likelihood to sign an arrangement with the IMF and the determinants of the financial size of such a program. Arguably the world and the global financial architecture underwent structural changes after the ending of Cold War and so did the role of the IMF. Hence, we update and extend the work of Sturm ...

This paper uses both correlational and experimental methods to explore the power of counterfactual cognitions about the past to constrain judgments about the future as well as policy preferences. Study 1 asked 47 specialists on the Soviet Union to assess both the plausibility of controversial counterfactuals and the probability of controversial conditional forecasts. The results reveal deep ide...

the collapse of the soviet :union: in 1991, and the transformation of the old security arrangement created a new geopolitical environment in the caucasus region. in fact, the unique geographical conditions, ethnic- racial and religious diversity, the heritage of socialism in the cultural, political, economic and social structures, strategic position, competitions between regional and extra-regi...

The purpose of the paper is to revisit origin principle responsibility protect (R2P) focusing on few cases and reflecting troubled journey that it has made maneuvering its structural constraints posed by hegemonic powers geopolitical manipulations, employing historical methods in tracking evolution. inter-state aggression during Cold War, largely gave way war violence within, after end it, rath...