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144943
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In NATO and some Western capitals, there are those who point to Russian aggression, neo-imperialism and even militarization, thanks to the sharp increase in Russian defense spending. Russia is seen to be part of an arc of crisis around the alliance, "tearing up the international rule book" and threatening Euro-Atlantic security. Seen from Moscow, however, the picture appears rather different. Indeed, official Russian documents and speeches also point to a wider international environment that is seen to be increasingly unstable, even threatening; indeed it can be said that Russia also faces an "arc of crisis" around it.
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103845
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By 2015, there will be 58 cities on the planet with a population of 5 million or more and, by 2025, according to National Intelligence Council, 27 cities with a population exceeding 10 million. The U.N. Population Division classifies populations in excess of 10 million as megacities and many of these urban behemoths will be located in the so-called 10/40 window-the area in Africa and Asia between north latitude 10 and 40 degrees. This emerging growth will have serious consequences for international stability, human security and environmental degradation. Without a doubt, unchecked growth in the 10/40 window will change the face of the global map in the twenty-first century. The questions are: how and what should be done about it? In this article, we primarily address the how question-leaving a detailed examination of policy options to others, as we contend that the most important step at this point in time is to first understand the nature of the problem.
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138055
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FOR A LONG TIME, Russian researchers remained riveted to the problem of resource deficit in the world as a potential cause of international instability or even conflicts. In recent years, however, we are growing increasingly aware of deficit of confidence, a resource which is equally important for world economy and world politics and which, therefore, can be described as universally important. There is a deficit of confidence in the basic institutions, the rules of the game and among the main actors which do not trust what others are doing and plan to do. The trends of world development depend on how fast and to which extent we will be able to deal with this fundamental deficit. The events unfolding in Ukraine and around it with no end in sight do not breed optimism.
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