As a democratic and economically developed country, with interests that do not differ from those of Western democracies, the Republic of Croatia may well represent a decisive factor in future efforts to stabilize Southeast Europe. Croatia plays a very important role in the regional geopolitical configuration and can potentially influence the future development of neighboring countries and other...

How Many Winners Are Good to Have? On Tournaments with Sabotage From an employer’s perspective a tournament should induce agents to exert productive activities but refrain from destructive ones. We experimentally test the predictive power of a tournament model which suggests that – within a reasonable framework – productive and destructive activities are not influenced neither by the number of ...

Abstract Rudolf Kjellén (1864–1922) discusses the birth, death, and possible rebirth of state as a ‘living organism’. His concept nation , based on Renan, voluntary community is linked to attainment statehood. Poland an example in this discussion, beginning his book Stormakterna – The Great Powers 1905, with under subjugation by three these powers, continuing Staten som lifsform 1916 where poss...

Geostrategic positioning of the state—applied substructure political geography and geopolitics that investigate forming independent state’s functions azimuths its international relations. Present article explores general regulations advanced states on modern map world (spatial compression economy, composition states’ geopolitical “powers,” structure dynamics “World Order” systems, so on). Simul...

the establishment of foreign military bases is a key matter to understand the distribution of power in spheres of influence throughout the world. oversea bases are the first mechanism of a mass network, which works to maintain the control exercised by great powers, becoming the infrastructure for wars. normally,  government allows the allies and governments that have similar ideas about common ...

In recent years, Russia and Turkey have been among non-Western powers that more assertive in their foreign policies the Western Balkans. Naturally, this creates need to identify key similarities differences between these two geopolitical players. By using case of Serbia, pivotal country Balkans a whose policy was largely influenced by idea hedging engaging players, one can determine powers. Thi...

study the effective geographical factors on formation of retire governments and their consequences for persian gulfabstractoil is the most political and most important good in today’s world economy undoubtedly. rant phenomenon and rentier governments have been a subject of great interest as a reason for rentier governments between researchers. rant can be described as an income which is earned ...