Some scholars think that nationalism emerged when the first people appeared in the World. ... As was mentioned above, nationalism and ethnic conflicts emerged approximately in all countries in the World because of peculiarities of the nations. ... There is no region in the World which accumulates such number of nations within such little geographical territory. ... Transcaucasus has borders with Turkey and Iran in the South and Russia in the North and is surrounded with Black Sea from the West and Caspian Sea from the East. ... Russians political interests toward this region were explained by ...

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In the Cold War period there existed an 'invisible wall' in the Sea of Japan. ... II Megatrends We have to pay attention to the megatrends in the world. ... For example, Baltic Sea Rim countries (Estonia, Latvia Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany and Poland) are cooperating with each other, first of all, in environmental problems. ... In this regard, Marjan Svetlicic's paper "Small Countries in a Globalized World: Their Honeymoon or Twilight?" ... Access to the world markets is decisively important. ...

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Turkey, a candidate for a full membership to EU, is located close to 70% of the world's oil and gas reserves. Due to it's proximity to these important resources, Turkey is in a perfect position to host a large pipeline (Nabucco Gas Pipeline) that will carry gas from the Caspian Sea to the Middle East. ... Only 0.6% of the world's oil reserves and 2.0% of proven natural gas reserves are located in EU. ...

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Some world power are flexing their muscle by threaten sovereign state. ... The current situation between NATO and Russia must be solving to ensure this world is a better place to live. ... Firstly, the annexation of Crimea is not necessary to increase Russian black sea capability nor does it increase in term of economic terms. ... Putin realized that they would lose their port city home of the black sea fleet when Ukraine joins NATO and European Union. ... Such plan undermines his plan of a nuclear free world and further stains relationship with Moscow. ...

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Arms control is arguably one of the most prominent issues every nation of the world has to deal with, this is because every man woman and child on the planet may potentially be affected by the arms another country posses. ... There is a treaty to ban nuclear testing world wide, to establish inspections, and establish a network of monitoring stations to identify these situations. ... As India is just starting to become an important nuclear power of its own, the already nuclear online states want to use India as a benchmark for the rest of the world. ... The CTBT focuses too much on the big nucl...

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He worked in Tiflis, and then in the Black Sea port of Batumi, organizing worker protests, which led to his arrest in 1902. ... Meanwhile, World War II was fast approaching. ... After Germany fell, he used Red Army troops to forcibly install Communist governments in Eastern Europe and further his country's interests around the world. ... In an amazing scene that was broadcast around the world--and which played a large role in exposing the true nature of the Soviet regime--every one of the accused Bolsheviks confessed their supposed crimes. Only later did the world discover that these conf...

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On the west border runs near Smolensk, they lost a large part of the coast of the Baltic Sea and the Crimea, which Russia recently regained. ... Attacks at World Trade Center were a watershed and a huge shock for the whole West as well as for Russia. ...

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In the early 20th century, the Soviet Union began to experience a sweeping proletarian revolution, as well as rapid industrialization. This transition began reshaping the preceding social structure and firmly held beliefs of Russian culture as communism began to take root. Along with a transformatio...

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF ASIA "This is the only region in the world where so many combinations and permutations of two- three and four- and even two plus four or three plus three- power games can be played on the regional chessboard with all their complexities and variations." ... From 1948 onwards, a more or less clear-cut line divided Europe into two main political and military blocs: the communist bloc and the free world of Western Europe, resulting in an almost perfect bipolarity. ...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Sta...

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