... rise to new forms of strategic geometry, or provided the old forms of strategic geometry with a renewed basis. The post Cold War era is also characterized by Japan's increasingly independent stance from the United States and its attempts at greater militarization. A major feature of the transition form a Cold War system to a post Cold War system is the reversal in roles of ... US-Japan relations; China's emphasis on economic modernization constituting the cornerstone of its foreign policy; Japan's policy of "expanding equilibrium." Today's US-Japan-China triangle also reveals Japan's in...

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... were strictly geometrical, but they rapidly evolved into increasingly complex paintings in which the geometrical elements employed richer colors and inhabited an ambiguous and complex pictorial space. Despite its reference to the icon tradition, the Black Square presented no recognizably Christian image, but for Malevich himself suprematism remained a mystical experience associated ... interdisciplinary system of two-dimensional, architectonic forms rendered in painted collages, drawings, and prints, with both utopian and utilitarian aspirations. Blurring the distinctions between real a...

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... the USSR and the United States for the establishment and building of missiles capable of reaching each other's territory, the struggle for space exploration"; Stage III. 1972- 1985 years. "Achieving real parity between East and West in the development and use of arms in all aspects of geographical ... space"; Stage IV. The final, 1985-1991 years. "Delivery of the East, including the Soviet Union conquered positions and military parity with ... and intermediate - is the result of a dynamic interaction between the processes of confrontation in various spheres of public life and in differ...

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... hope, has not undergone a transition to democracy so far? In the scientific literature, much has been written about the necessary factors to make democracy possible. With the limited space, this paper will focus on one particular theory: the factors of political scientist Michael McFaul. Based on an analysis of democratic transition in three former communist countries, he distinguishes five ... distinguishes five factors that were in all three countries of vital importance to make a transition possible: 1) a semi-autocratic regime, 2) an unpopular leader 3) a united opposition 4) that ca...

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... if one of them used them then it would probably lead to the end of mankind. There was also the Space race, which also involved competition between the two super powers. This time they were competing for people in space, for example, Russia had the first man in space but America had the first man on the moon. The main aim of the ... Space Race was to develop rocket Technology. By 1960 both superpowers had enough nuclear weapons to wipe out each other and everyone ... ...

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... if one of them used them then it would probably lead to the end of mankind. There was also the Space race, which also involved competition between the two super powers. This time they were competing for people in space, for example, Russia had the first man in space but America had the first man on the moon. The main aim of the ... Space Race was to develop rocket Technology. By 1960 both superpowers had enough nuclear weapons to wipe out each other and everyone ... ...

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... to create a utopian culture. In his book, Lodder states, "Gan went to great lengths to prove Constructivism was the only 'revolutionary' or 'socialist' art form" (98). This argument took the stance that everything before being created by Malevich and the left was in fact non communist ideology and was nothing more than 'old' art. He insisted that Constructivism was the product ... ...

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... entered a new phase when the USSR, launched Sputnik 1 in October 1957 and the USA followed with its first satellite, Vanguard 1, in March 1958. Even though Korea and the arms and space race are important factors in the Cold War, it is very difficult to attribute them as causes of the U.S-Soviet conflict, as the war of threats and terror was now ... have a balance of power. And only when Russia was able to technologically match the U.S could the Cold War properly begin. Events after this such as Korea and the arms and space race, cannot be seen as causes, as the war of threats and the br...

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... developing towns and cities in order to seek employment. This led to the packing of the urban centers with large populations and so the wages as well as the living space was really limited in cities and towns and so the rights dissipated at their workplaces. The government was indeed aware of the classes being developed in the urban centers and ... ...

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... advancing on a narrow front. Where after the first wave of men and horses had passed there would not be a blade of grass left to feed those who followed. In the space between the Klaipeda and the Pripet marshes lay two Russian armies. Barclay de Tolly's First Army of the West, which consisted of 110,000 strong men, was around Vilna and ... ...

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... necessarily a beneficial development. Inflation is rampant: prices have doubled in the industrial zones in the last five years. Nevertheless, the fact that Shanghai currently possesses the fifth most expensive office space in the world demonstrates that demand is high and that the prospects for future growth are promising (Zuckerman D8). Indeed, Pudong, a free export-manufacturing zone described as "the future sight ... ...

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... part by playing on anti-Communist feeling--and Hitler's magnum opus, Mein Kampf, had pledged Germany to the destruction of the inferior Russian Slavs and the conquest of Lebensraum ("living space") in the Russian East. Throughout the '30s, the Nazis and the Soviets seemed on a collision course, as Hitler denounced the "Bolshevik Menace" and the two nations fought a proxy war in ... ...

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... tight cooperation with Sun Microsystems (Sun UltraSPARC compilers and Sun Solaris operating system). The E2k project is a commercial version of the design and has already been used in the Russian Space Mission Control and the Russian Missile Defense System. A new branch of a company called ru-Net, invested $870 million and is predicted to be one of the largest chipmakers. This branch ... ...

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