Kazan State University (Volga Region) Founded in 1804 under the name of Kazan Imperial University, it is the second oldest university in the Russian Federation, of renowned name the current Kazan State University is an internationally recognized center of academic excellence,...
According to directoryaah, Syria is a country in West Asia with (2018) 16.9 million residents; The capital is Damascus. Following the example of other Arab countries, a protest movement also arose in Syria in spring 2011 (Arab Spring). Half-hearted reform attempts...
Israel Israel’s seat of government is Jerusalem. The neighboring countries of Jerusalem are Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and the Palestinian Territories. Almost 7.5 million people live in an area of 22,145 km². This results in a population density of 340.6 inhabitants per...
North Korea covers the entire northern part of the Korean peninsula. The country is considered one of the last communist bastions on earth. It is governed strictly by dictators and is considered the most restrictive political system of our time. Geographically,...
TERRITORY: MORPHOLOGY. PENINSULAR MALAYSIA Divided into two morphologically different portions (one continental, the other insular), the territory of Malaysia consists for the most part of isolated reliefs and coastal plains of alluvial origin. Peninsular Malaysia occupies the terminal part of the...
Global divergence was shaped during the 19th century by the fundamental division of the world into colonial powers on the one hand and colonial, semi-colonial and dependent territories on the other. However, the global North-South conflict only emerged as a result...
After the East-West antagonism broke away in 1989, the North-South relationship changed in several ways. The gap between rich and poor countries has increased despite considerable growth rates in the Third World, whereby a distinction must be made between “less” and...
The security policy of the “West” never claimed to be that of a closed “bloc.” Rather, the allies of the USA in NATO joined their security and détente policies at different speeds according to their own goals. Under President C. de...
Under the impression of a growing threat to their state model from the communist one-party rule supported by the Soviet army, the western states founded NATO under the leadership of the USA (1949). As a consequence of the intensifying antagonisms between...
East-West conflict, historical-political term for the systematic conflict between the Soviet Union and the communist states that have come under their hegemony (from a Eurocentric point of view mainly in the east; Eastern bloc) on the one hand and the group...
