... geo-economic and development issues, the only guarantee of stability for potentially fragile societies located in an unstable regional environment. Competition between international actors exists in certain sectors. On the political level, the Russian-Chinese condominium reinforces the Central Asian regimes in their increasingly authoritarian line, just motivated by democratic reforms promoted by the EU and USA ... including access to energy which slows the conversion and modernization of these economies. Failure to change the type of economy led all causes are that the elites have an imm...

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... this occurred on a significantly smaller scale than that of modern day globalisation, termed mini-globalisations, and many collapsed or became more insular, such as attempts made by the Chinese. These mini-globalisations were episodic and ruptured, with empires often overreaching and needing to retract. Globalisation is often a internationalisation of the capitalist mode of production , a concept ... Industrial Revolution introduced unprecedented technological advancements and transformed methods of production, raised the standard of living, and ultimately marked the transition from a ru...

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