scholarly journals ASIAN PACIFIC – GLOBAL CONFLICT POTENTIAL

Defendologija ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (39-40) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanislav Stojanović ◽  
Žikica Bardžić
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Strong Concentration ◽  
Unique Position ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Asian Pacific

The paper deals with the Asia-Pacifi c region, which is, with its geopolitical andgeostrategic characteristics, one of the most important areas of the modern world, andthe dynamics and character of processes that take place in it have huge implications oninternational politics. The underlying hypothesis of this work is that powerful potentialsof the Asia Pacifi c open up the possibility that it will becomes a true leader of the overallprogress in the world, but the confl icts that exist in that area, of which the most destructiveterritorial disputes are, also have the potential for global scale confrontation.The geostrategic signifi cance, transport corridors, huge reserves of oil and gas,the highest concentration of human resources, as well as high technological achievementsmake the Asia Pacifi c region one of the most powerful drivers of the developmentand progress of the modern world. Such a unique position of the Asian Pacifi c contributesto a strong concentration of the interests of international politics in the region. Of course,the Asia Pacifi c is a place where the most important geopolitical and geo-strategic interestsof the most important actors of contemporary international politics are in confl ict.These circumstances make the region one of the most vulnerable areas of the modernworld in the security sense. Primary causes of the confl ict are economic as well as geostrategiccharacteristics of the area. On the top of the numerous and complex Asian issues,are confl icts between China and the US, which primarily determine the character ofrelations in the region.Authors conclude that US-Chinese rivalry and competition with a progressivetendency are unstoppable and with their complexity are hardly controlled, so there is areal danger of radicalization of their relations, with simultaneous radicalization of relationsacross the region. All these contribute to the fact that relations in the Asia Pacifi cregion are very complicated, often vague and unbalanced and potentially explosive,pushing a region of enormous strategic importance into the labyrinth of multiple instabilitywhose implications would have a powerful refl ection on security in the world. Thearrival of the new US administration announces the toughening of the US bidding withChina as its main competitor, which is causing uncertainty about future security trends inthe Asia Pacifi c region.

The Strait of Magellan—a Gateway to New Worlds

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauricio Onetto Pavez
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
Modern World ◽  
American Continent ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Strait Of Magellan ◽  
The World ◽  
The Strait Of Magellan ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time

The year 2020 marks the five hundredth anniversary of the “discovery” of the Strait of Magellan. The unveiling of this passage between 1519 and 1522 allowed the planet to be circumnavigated for the first time in the history of humanity. All maritime routes could now be connected, and the idea of the Earth, in its geographical, cosmographic, and philosophical dimensions, gained its definitive meaning. This discovery can be considered one of the founding events of the modern world and of the process of globalization that still continues today. This new connectivity awoke an immediate interest in Europe that led to the emergence of a political consciousness of possession, domination, and territorial occupation generalized on a global scale, and the American continent was the starting point for this. This consciousness also inspired a desire for knowledge about this new form of inhabiting the world. Various fields of knowledge were redefined thanks to the new spaces and measurements produced by the discovery of the southern part of the Americas, which was recorded in books on cosmography, natural history, cartography, and manuscripts, circulating mainly between the Americas and Europe. All these processes transformed the Strait of Magellan into a geopolitical space coveted by Europeans during the 16th century. As an interoceanic connector, it was used to imagine commercial routes to the Orient and political projects that could sustain these dynamics. It was also conceived as a space to speculate on the potential wealth in the extreme south of the continent. In addition, on the Spanish side, some agents of the Crown considered it a strategic place for imperial projections and the defense of the Americas.

scholarly journals Global Problems of Mankind: The Status and Prospects of Solving

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (513) ◽  
pp. 478-484
Author(s):  
O. V. Ptashchenko ◽  
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D. Y. Arkhypova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Technology Development ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
General Nature ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Political Aspect ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
The Status

The article examines the main global problems of the modern world space, defining the main tendencies of overcoming the crisis and the further path of human development. Globalization indicates the general nature of most processes meaningful to mankind. Modern humanity represents an indivisible system of economic, political, social and cultural ties and interactions, which is significative for the unity of its future destiny. Informatization became the basis of globalization, reflecting the current level of technology development. Global problems are problems affecting all mankind, influencing the course of economic development and social sphere, also ecology and political stability. These problems require international cooperation, since none, even a highly developed State, is able solve them on its own. The number of hungry people in the world has increased over the past few years. Now every ninth person in the world is starving every day, suffering from a lack of nutrition. Both the food scarcity and hunger are among the greatest threats to the overall health of the human population exceeding malaria, tuberculosis or HIV. Responsibility for the planet should begin with responsibility for the country, because the crisis of a separate country complicates the world situation in the political aspect; ecological and resource crises jeopardize environmental equilibrium and complicate the problem of resources on a global scale; an economic crisis leads to social consequences in other countries.

Remote Operations: The New Norm

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Gajanan Kakade ◽  
Pawandeep Singh Bagga
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Cost Optimization ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Service Companies ◽  
The World ◽  
Remote Operations

Abstract In recent years, we have seen some refined drilling technologies crop up all over the world. These have given rise to implementation of remote centers to work on real time decision making with the wells. While drilling is in process, there are technologies that enable real time transmission of data and voice to and from remote sites, helping in real time intelligent commands and responses. It is hence now possible to form a single team of experts to monitor and control drilling operations. The development of remote operations in the oil and gas industry has evolved over years starting 2004 at different speeds in different regions of the world. For example, it took longer to reach the US land market because of resistance to change at the rig site. The decrease in oil prices in 2014 however, pushed remote operations into existence to reduce cost. Due to challenges such as either oilfield culture, company strategy, human factor, legal factor etc., it was not exactly the "norm". Fast forward to 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic hit the oil industry into another slump, service companies have been pushed into the remote operations world. To learn with the times, this may be the new norm and maybe an excellent one. Many service companies have successfully performed operations wells globally increasing not only the efficiency of wellsite operations but also contributing to cost optimization and safety. During implementation, it is observed that remote operations are less a technical challenge, and more a value challenge requiring confidence from all stakeholders. In terms of drilling and operational efficiency, the results observed globally are significant, with fewer trips for M/LWD failure, as well as significant reductions in M/LWD NPT while drilling. This paper discusses the implementation of remote operations at global scale, lesson learnt on day-to-day basis, optimization opportunities, business workflow, positives such as business continuity, safety aspect and last but not the least, the environmental impact. The paper also talks of changes and effects of Covid-19 Pandemic on these operations. Remote operations prepare us well for such pandemic and it may be the safer way to operate now on. Also discussed are the keys to successful remote operations and various examples of remote operations establishments throughout the globe. Lastly a SWOT analysis is done to conclude how remote operations will help operators to add more value to operations and show that remote operations is the new future.

scholarly journals EDITORIAL

Antiquity ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 89 (343) ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
Chris Scarre
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

The world is changing rapidly, and archaeology with it. Globalisation is rewiring the relationship that connects Europe and North America, with their long histories of archaeological research, to other regions, where archaeologists are throwing new light on prehistories and early histories that have hitherto been less intensively studied. The outcome is a shifting but more balanced picture of the human past at a global scale, and a better appreciation of the interactions that have shaped the modern world.

scholarly journals Century of the Communist Party of China and the perspective of socialism with a Chinese specificity

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
Ivan I. Antonovich
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Progressive Development ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
The Us ◽  
Chinese Perspective ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Wealth ◽  
Goals And Objectives

The article analyses the main directions and paths of Chinese modernisation, the features of the US’ opposition to it, it is concluded that the success of socialism with Chinese characteristics creates a new world situation in which new socio-economic civilisational foundations can create a society of socialist orientation. It is noted that Deng Xiaoping, without holding any government posts, being only the chairman of the CPC Central Committee’s Defense Committee, led the process of Chinese modernisation, which brought China to the forefront of scientific, technological and social progress in the world. The author argues that the basis of Chinese success is the Leninist formula of the NEP – the use of private entrepreneurship under the control of a socialist state in order to develop at an accelerated rate of social wealth in the amount necessary to meet the basic life needs of its citizens. The path of China was fraught with many unsuccessful and tragic experiments, therefore the current socio-economic leap forward in civilisation is an unprecedented event in world history. The implementation of goals and objectives of such a global scale will make serious changes in the world order, and require a new political philosophy. The success of socialism with Chinese characteristics within the country, as well as in programs to support the progressive development of countries and peoples of the world ready for cooperation, allows us to give a cautious optimistic assessment of the future Chinese perspective. And this, according to the author, is today a clear threat to the tasks and goals of American domination in the world.

scholarly journals World security between the end and “return” of history

2016 ◽  
Vol 68 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 151-171
Author(s):  
Stanislav Stojanovic ◽  
Goran Mandic
Keyword(s):  
International Politics ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Global Risk ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
New Era ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
The World ◽  
Historical Cycles ◽  
Political Communities

Globalization as a social concept based on the principle of universalism announced the beginning of a new era and a model of international society, which would mean a sort of end of historical cycles. Optimistic faith in progress was one of the driving ideas of this, one of the most popular concepts of the global society. Proponents of globalization have claimed that the triumph of the West in the Cold War competition confirmed the superiority of the liberal model and represented a break with the real political perception of international politics. In this way, as argued, the conditions were created for the societies around the world to start their own reconstruction, creating a global culture and universalization of democratic governance, permanently overcoming war and establishing the lasting peace. The nature and dynamics of relationships in international politics unambiguously confirmed that the social and political reality has not developed as announced by the proponents of globalization, at the beginning of the last decade of the twentieth century. The modern world fell into a time of confusion, uncertainty and insecurity, growing into a global risk society. Strong rapprochement of nations, political communities and cultures and intensifying their interdependence encouraged more intense disagreement, the emergence of new national models, radicalizing definitions of identity to the most devastating forms. Globalization has not transformed the world, and the concept of global governance of the world proved to be a failed attempt, manifesting a variety of system dysfunctions. At the same time, the more pronounced interdependence of contemporary societies, based on the technological achievements of the postindustrial world, has expanded the range of issues that require the global approach.

scholarly journals The Global History of Inequality

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-323
Author(s):  
Pim de Zwart
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Demographic History ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Occupy Movement ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Inequality has increased in most Western countries since the early 1980s. In a recent report, the international non-governmental organization Oxfam noted that the twenty-six richest people in the world own as much wealth as the poorest fifty per cent of the world's population. Discontent with the growing disparities in wealth and income has soared in recent years, especially in the wake of the 2007/2008 financial crisis and the “Great Recession” that followed. The Occupy movement protested against the greed of the “one per cent”, referring to the highly skewed income distribution in the US. Former US president Barack Obama proclaimed the growth of within-country economic inequality as “the defining challenge of our time”. Yet, he enacted few policies that reduced inequality during his two terms in office; the Gini coefficient in the US actually increased slightly between 2007 and 2016. His successor, whose election has often been explained as a consequence of these high levels of inequality, has slashed taxes for the wealthy, probably causing further rises in inequality in the future. In this essay, I will review two recent economic history books that examine the historical roots of within-country inequality on a global scale: Branko Milanovic's Global Inequality (2016) and Walter Scheidel's The Great Leveler (2017). Formerly a lead economist at the World Bank, Milanovic is a well-known scholar working in the field of economic inequality, while Scheidel has a background as a specialist in the economic, social, and demographic history of antiquity.

scholarly journals PANDEMIC AND CITY - A REASON FOR SEARCHING NEW APPROACHES IN DESIGN

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-54
Author(s):  
N. Tekenova ◽  
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◽  
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
World Health ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in the world [1]. The modern world is faced with a pandemic on a global scale - the way of life of millions of people has changed. Quarantine mode, restrictions on movement, remote work, online education for schoolchildren and students, and much more. The author has developed a questionnaire on the Google platform of the questionnaire "City and Pandemic" [3] about the safety of the living environment. What should be a safe city? What needs to be changed in the design of cities in order to protect their residents from virus attacks? All these questions faced the society - architects, city planners, and urbanists began searching for ideas to solve new "quarantine" problems.

scholarly journals The US and Russian Battlefield Maneuvers in the 21st Century of Islam and Muslims in the Australian Press

2018 ◽  
Vol 02 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tauqeer Hussain Sargana ◽  
Mujahid Hussain
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
National Interest ◽  
Fourth Generation ◽  
Response Mechanism ◽  
Cooperation And Competition ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Theoretical Premise

This study makes the point that the 21st century is practicing non-kinetic warfare and nations vulnerable to it must overcome their weaknesses or be ready to get consumed. The world at large has witnessed a shift in the co-existence of relations among nations. Traditionally, an ally or the foe had a decisive place in the phenomenon of cooperation and competition, respectively. Realist tendencies and strategies to outcast the strengths of one’s enemy were straightforwardly applied. Military means including framing alliances were applied to squeeze the very possibility of response mechanism vested in the enemy’s defense lines. Contrary to this, those who fall in the vicinity of friendship orally, were to the best helped and taken along. This crafted the era of kineticism, where political affiliations with all its strengths and weaknesses were open and nations have clear manifestation to opt for the best side. This had been the case from First to Third Generations of warfare. Somehow, the Fourth Generation of warfare has faded away from the very distinction between an ally and foe. The discourse of ‘national interest’ in the 21st century has fed anxiety and distrust among nations. This study, therefore, is deductive in nature and has used the above analogy as a theoretical premise to decode the hypothetical assumption that there exists a context of non-kinetic warfare and both the US and Russia have entered into ‘maneuvered battlefield’. Secondary data with authors’ own reflections being a student of international politics has driven the analysis and findings.

scholarly journals SUN-LB6 Characterization of PCOS Among Flo App Users Around the World

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Galic ◽  
Dannielle Brown ◽  
Olivia Ruth Negris ◽  
Liudmila Zhaunova ◽  
Anna Klepchukova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Polycystic Ovary ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Aggregated Data ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World

Abstract Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common gynecological endocrine disorder associated with menstrual irregularity and androgen excess. The worldwide prevalence of PCOS among women of reproductive age ranges from 5-20%. Mobile menstrual cycle apps, such as Flo, provide an opportunity to gather data on the characteristics of PCOS in a globally representative and medically unbiased population. The objective of this study was to report PCOS symptomatology relative to country in order to better characterize PCOS and its differing phenotypes among users around the world. A questionnaire on PCOS related symptoms and previous PCOS diagnosis was available to Flo users during one month (2019). The geographical location of the user was estimated based on the IP address. Study inclusion criteria included women aged 18-44 years seeking to track their cycle or to conceive, who were not pregnant, on active contraception, or in stabilization mode after pregnancy and had Flo app running in English. All users in the study had agreed to the use of their de-identified and aggregated data for research purposes.The highest number of Flo app users who completed the PCOS questionnaire were coming from the following top 5 countries: United States (US) (n=240,732), United Kingdom (UK) (n=67,696), India (n=40,171), the Philippines (n=35,097), and Australia (n=28,946). The percentage of self-reported PCOS in these countries was 14.4% with higher percentages in India, the Philippines, and Australia (22.6%, 20.0%, 15.9, respectively) and lower in the US and UK (12.2% and 13.71%, respectively). In the US, UK, and Australia, the most common self-reported symptoms of PCOS positive women were bloating, hirsutism, and irregular cycles. In India and the Philippines, the most common symptoms of women with PCOS were bloating, baldness, and irregular cycles. Hirsutism, high glucose and high levels of both cholesterol and glucose are the three top symptoms increasing the probability of PCOS in all studied countries. The percentage of self-reported PCOS increases 3.04 times among users that reported hirsutism compared to all users that positively responded to the PCOS self-assessment question. Probability of PCOS among users that report hirsutism increases 3.85 times for Australia and 4.24 times for India. Australia and India had higher percentages of self-reported PCOS among those who reported experiencing nearly all PCOS related symptoms. Using Flo’s software, we are able to determine that geographic location has an effect on the phenotypic presentation of PCOS. Understanding the distribution of PCOS symptomology around the world will help to better characterize PCOS and improve diagnosis and treatment on both an individual and global scale.

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