Berger, Daniel, Corvalan, Alejandro, Easterly, William, and Satyanath, Shanker—Do superpower interventions have short and long term consequences for democracy? The United States’ wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have revived again the phenomenon of ‘‘regime change’’ that was thought to have died with the Cold War. We study Cold War ‘‘regime changes’’ for insight, although of course they do not extr...

Instructional technology, and the cognitivist and systems paradigms that underpin it, grew out of the military-industrial complex during the Cold War. Much as the Pentagon and this military complex defined the architecture of the Internet, they also essentially created, ex nihilo, the fields of instructional technology and instructional design. The results of the ongoing dominance or influence ...

This paper discusses the enduring forces driving the global diffusion of military capability, whether during the cold war or other historical periods, and then considers the competitive dynamics characteristic of the superpower rivalry itself. I argue that the working of the so-called technological imperative along with loosely coupled action-reaction dynamics lead us to expect certain patterns...

Crimea and the start of the undeclared and still unfinished war in eastern Ukraine has resulted in a new, Cold War– like division of Europe. On one side of the divide are the security, political, and economic structures of NATO and the EU with their capital in Brussels. On the other side is Russia. Left between them are several countries in Eastern Europe: Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova. All of ...

climate is the most important factor which control desertification .in order to detect climate changes in desert zones, time trend analysis is applied to extreme indices in kashan station using extreme climate index software (ecis). results show significant trends in extreme indices during the past decade 1995-2004 and the pronounced warming is associated with a negative trend in cold extremes....

The paper drew parallels between the Russo- Ukraine war and Second World War Cold War. A contextual these events eras were described in study. similarities pointed out, a conjecture was reviewed, comparison of NATO Russia’s National Interests studied side by as it concerns nations border states with Russia. study relied on documentary data. data sourced from government annual departmental repor...